• The average number of injuries sustained by a cricketer is in the range of 1.61 to 1.91 per season.
• The most common mechanism for cricketing injuries is the delivery and follow-through of fast bowlers.

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  Particularly, young fast bowlers are at risk of getting injured, and more so early in the season.
• Only 7 percent of cricket injuries involve the batsman being hit by the ball.
• The reason for the particularly intense pain experienced when struck in the groin area is the extremely high number of nerve endings in the genitals.
• Strains and impact injuries are the most common batting injuries.
• The most vulnerable site of injury for batsmen is the fingers.
• The incidence of injury relating to specific aspects of the game is as follows: bowling 41.3 percent, fielding and wicket-keeping 28.6 percent, and batting 17.1 percent.
• The breakdown of which parts of the body get injured is as follows: lower limbs 49.8 percent, upper limbs 23.3 percent ,and back and trunk 22.8 percent.
• In extremely rare cases death can result from being struck by a cricketball on the chest. The phenomenon, called commotion cordis, causes the heart to stop beating.

Source:

Stretch, R.A. Cricket injuries: a longitudinal study of the nature of injuries to South African cricketers. British Journal of Sports Medicine. 2003;37:250-253.
 

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