Funny you should say that, a similar thing happened to me when I was playing cricket once. I was bowling and the batsman hit the ball and it was coming straight at my face. Luckily though I managed to bend my legs and drop to the ground in time otherwise I swear it would have broke a few teeth. I remember it seemed to take so long that I had time to regret that I didn't dive to the side. My mate was really apologetic afterwards because it was so close my head. I was shaking afterwards from the adrenaline and needless to say I decided to field for a bit.