Least injury prone role in cricket?

[Bees]

I guess it is spin bowling? Which is least problematic - wrist spin or finger spin?

Spin bowling allrounder?

 

[sanga1337]

where did you get arm spin from?

Anyway its probably off spin. Just from experience of bowling leg spin you put a lot more pressure on your shoulder region than you do with off spin. Getting injured in the shoulder is definitely not uncommon among leg spinners. McGain was ruled out with a shoulder injury and Warne has a history of shoulder injuries as well.

 

[Bees]

Oops. Hahaha, ah cheers.

 

[Mister Wright]

Umpiring

 

[Johnners]

Nah, Match Referee.

 

[Athlai]

Reckon spinners can kill their wrists and fingers. Any repetitive unnatural action can lead to injury really. Spose a specialist number 5 batsman could be it.

 

[BoyBrumby]

Reckon spinners can kill their wrists and fingers. Any repetitive unnatural action can lead to injury really. Spose a specialist number 5 batsman could be it.

Yeah, I'd say batsmen have it easiest, especially in this day & age of protective equipment. Short stuff might make them duck & dive still, but it doesn't put them in genuine mortal danger like it used to back in the days of yore.

 

[Athlai]

Yeah, I'd say batsmen have it easiest, especially in this day & age of protective equipment. Short stuff might make them duck & dive still, but it doesn't put them in genuine mortal danger like it used to back in the days of yore.

5 and 6 also don't face the new ball too often. Surely must be them. Unless you're Flynn.

 

[Fezza_8600]

Probably fielding? I'd say third man or a very fine leg, if not the slips cordon or gully.

 

[Richard]

Slippers get broken fingers more often than they let-on.

Likewise batsmen's lives mightn't be in any great danger these days but you still get the odd really nasty accident every few years (witness Flynn last English summer, and Papps in 2004/05 for a couple of examples) and broken-fingers aplenty.

Truth is there's no role in cricket that comes close to being injury-safe - apart maybe from specialist deep-fielders, though even here you can easily damage yourself by incorrect sliding techniques or diving into something you don't realise is there.

The least injury (rather than wear-and-tear) role in cricket I'd say would indeed probably be fingerspin. Fingerspinners are prone to callouses in the skin but that's generally about the worst of it.

Daniel Vettori for instance has played many years and the only injury problem to my knowledge has been his back, something which is inherant rather than as a result of playing the game.

 

[andruid]

12th man Long stop

 

[Goughy]

The least injury (rather than wear-and-tear) role in cricket I'd say would indeed probably be fingerspin. Fingerspinners are prone to callouses in the skin but that's generally about the worst of it.

Its an interesting point as Vaughan could bat but no longer bowl due to injury. Therefore batting must be easier on the body than being a fingerspinner (as with Atherton but he was a legspinner).

They are all soft ****s though (spinners and batsmen) as we all know real men bowl fast and cant walk by the time they are 50 and crippled by arthritis.

 

[Richard]

Its an interesting point as Vaughan could bat but no longer bowl due to injury. Therefore batting must be easier on the body than being a fingerspinner (as with Atherton but he was a legspinner).

Both were forced (or not in Vaughan's case - he does still bowl occasionally IIRR) to stop by inherant natural weaknesses (Atherton's AS [and that's not Asperger's Syndrome] in his back and Vaughan's constantly collapsing knees) rather than body-parts being worn-out by bowling though.

 

[stumpski]

Considering how much they have to throw themselves around, wicket-keepers seem to be pretty durable - at international level it's hard to think of a stumper who's had a lay-off of any length. Adam Gilchrist famously never missed a Test between debut and retirement.

 

[Richard]

And his predecessor played 119 out of 120.

Then before them they got through 4 (Phillips, Rixon, Zoehrer and Dyer) in the space of 4 years.

Then before them there was Rodney Marsh, who missed 1 Test (excluding games missed through the Packer Schism) out of 97.

 

[Prince EWS]

Specialist mid off fieldsman, perhaps..

 

[Precambrian]

Umpiring

Not when they are prone to solid hits from batsmen like Dhoni etc, and they wear no protective gear. In fact, during WC 03, Tendulkar hit one straight at the throat of umpire Aleem Dar, and Dar could only just dodge it. In fact, some days after Dar was asked about it, he said that the first thing he did after the match, was to go and pray for his miraculous escape!

"That drive could have killed me, says Aleem Dar"

 

[GIMH]

Both were forced (or not in Vaughan's case - he does still bowl occasionally IIRR) to stop by inherant natural weaknesses (Atherton's AS [and that's not Asperger's Syndrome] in his back and Vaughan's constantly collapsing knees) rather than body-parts being worn-out by bowling though.

How bad is Athers' AS? Mick Mars of Motley Crue couldn't walk at one point because of his, and looks in a real state a lot of the time , this obviously not happened by the lifestyle he led in the 80s

 

[Richard]

Atherton's has indeed of times caused him to be unable to move (the first 3 days after his final Test, in fact, or something like that, saw him in bed in complete seizure). I'm pretty sure the effects have been exaggerated by playing cricket, but I might be wrong.

For all I know he may still be unable to move on some days. It doesn't seem likely though as it's not like he's inconsistent in his appearances with the pen or behind the mic.

 

[zaremba]

12th man Long stop

Both potentially at risk when GBH is bowling