5 players who sustained bad on-field injuries

#4 Craig Kieswetter

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The explosive English wicket-keeper batsman got injured from the most constant, frequent and potent of threats on a cricket field, the threat that accounts for most of the batting impulses, ergo, being hit by a cricket ball.

Playing for Somerset against Northamptonshire on July 12, 2014, Kieswetter was stuck on the helmet by a David Willey bumper and the pace of the ball allowed it to pass through the grille from the gap between it and the visor of the helmet and even the reduced impact of the ball was not enough to safeguard the batsman from a serious injury. He endured a broken nose and a fractured cheekbone.

The implications weren't just those, he suffered from double vision for a while and despite a few attempts to make a comeback to cricket, including one final hurrah in the 2015 Ram Slam in South Africa, Kieswetter had to announce a sad premature conclusion to a glittering career.