Australian Test batsman Adam Voges has been helped from the field after being hit on the head while batting in Western Australia’s Sheffield Shield clash with Tasmania at the Waca in Perth.

Shortly after 4pm on Thursday the Western Australian Cricket Association confirmed via Twitter that Voges had been concussed and would take no further part in the game, but was OK. “Voges has been diagnosed with concussion,” the team said via the official Waca Twitter account. “He is OK, naturally a bit groggy. Being monitored by medicos. Ruled out of rest of game.”

Voges was struck on the helmet when he tried to turn away and avoid a Cameron Stevenson bouncer shortly before lunch on day one, as he looked to shore up his spot in the Australian batting order for the forthcoming third Test in Adelaide.

Adam Voges helped off the ground by trainers after struck in the head by a bouncer at the WACA @TenNewsPerth pic.twitter.com/6SD99eVcWv — Beau Pearson (@BeauPearson) November 17, 2016

Voges dropped to his arms and knees, before being treated on the ground and then assisted off the field by two team trainers. It is the second time this year Voges has received a serious blow to the head in a game, after he was concussed by an errant throw in May while fielding for Middlesex against Hampshire in the County Championship.

The incident will revive painful memories for Australian cricketers less than two years after former Test batsman Phillip Hughes died after being struck to the head while playing for South Australia against New South Wales at the Sydney Cricket Ground in November 2014.