Published: Jan 19, 2015, 11:17 PM (IST)
Edited: Jan 19, 2015, 11:17 PM (IST)
Jan 19, 2015
Director of Somerset Cricket, Matthew Maynard has admitted that the eye injury suffered by England‘s wicketkeeper-batsman, Craig Kieswetter could turn out to be a career-ending one.
The 27-year old suffered an injury while batting against Northamptonshire when the ball went through his helmet grill and hit him under his eyes thus breaking his cheek bone, nose and damaging his eye socket as well, reports BBC Sport.
He is expected to be out of action for the whole 2015 season and will travel to Belgium for further treatment of his injury with a specialist.
“We’re hoping that after he sees the specialist he’ll have a method of getting his eye back to 100%. The feedback we get from that will be quite instrumental, but potentially it could be career-ending,” said Maynard to BBC Somerset.
Prior to his injury, he was in a sensational from, scoring 419 runs in the county championship and also 497 runs in the Natwest T20 Blast.
After undergoing a surgery, he returned to competitive cricket for Somerset in September. He also went to South Africa to play the domestic T20 league for Warriors, where he played 10 matches and scored 199 runs. But later realised that his vision was not proper and would not be playing for Somerset this year.
“He came back for a couple of games and although he knew the eye wasn’t quite right, he was just delighted to be back playing at that stage. But then he went out to play in South Africa in the Twenty20 and he struggled. He was struggling to pick up the line and length of the ball,” said Maynard.
“If you can’t do that, it’s going to be hard to score runs and it also makes you very vulnerable. If we were to get him back that would be a huge lift for everyone. But we are planning for him to not be around this season,” he added.
He was also initially announced in the squad of England’s 30-men for World Cup, but was replaced by Sam Billings following his inability to participate.
