Ian Healy copies cameraman in Segway fall

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Australian cricket commentator Ian Healy falls off a Segway scooter on the Melbourne Cricket Ground.

Australian cricket commentator Ian Healy falls off a Segway scooter on the Melbourne Cricket Ground.

Australian cricket commentator Ian Healy falls off a Segway scooter on the Melbourne Cricket Ground.

Australian cricket commentator Ian Healy falls off a Segway scooter on the Melbourne Cricket Ground.

Australian cricket commentator Ian Healy rides a Segway scooter before his fall on the Melbourne Cricket Ground.

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LATEST: Cricket commentator Ian Healy has been bowled by a Segway scooter on the MCG while making fun of a cameraman who fell off one a day earlier.

Healy and fellow commentator Mark Nicholas were interviewing Joe Previtera who ploughed his Segway into a helmet on the playing surface while filming players and promptly fell in a heap of a crowd of tens of thousands of people in the stands and millions more watching on television.

Today, while Nicholas and Previtera remained on the turf, Healy took to the Segway and was cruising around the outfield when he attempted to dismount and ended up being run over by the machine and tumbling to the turf.

Yesterday, Previtera, the cameraman behind an infamous cricket sledge blamed on former Australia spinner Shane Warne, startled Brad Haddin and captain Michael Clarke so much they dived for cover when the Segway hit the helmet.

Previtera was uninjured in the spill and got to his feet sheepishly as Australian cricketers chirped in his ear. He trudged off the field carrying the Segway, which appeared a little worse for wear after the accident.

He embraced the ironic cheers from the crowd and was helped back to his feet by Clarke and Shaun Marsh, but it won't keep him from returning today.

''I'll be back tomorrow if we can get a few little bits and pieces that broke off,'' Previtera later told Channel Nine commentator Michael Slater. A giggling Slater responded: ''You're known for many things, this is just another one.''

Previtera was at the heart of a media storm after the comment "he can't bowl and can't throw" was picked up by a special effects microphone during the television broadcast of Australia's test match in Hobart against Pakistan in 1999/2000.

The comment followed a wayward throw back to the wicket from the deep from two-test paceman Scott Muller. The comment was later attributed to Warne by television media, but the spinner denied it.

To hose down media speculation, Previtera eventually went on a national current affairs program to claim he was the culprit. Muller, who at one stage threatened legal action over the comment, never played another test.

-Reuters and Sydney Morning Herald