A cricket ball is seen to hit the bat first and the sound of hitting is heard a little later. Why ?

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Light travels much faster than sound i.e speed of light is much greater than speed of sound, thus due to very high speed of light we see the ball hitting the bat first and sound is heard a little later.

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