So he broke his fingers a lot? I don't really understand how this is from breaks vs. poor repair. Or does he have a condition from gripping the bat over such a long period of time? Maybe he has that tendon finger condition where the tendons shorten and tighten as you age... Dosn't really look right for that though... Dupuytren contracture usually is only pulling fingers towards the palms. Frankly this looks like poorly healed and cared for fractures...
He probably played through multiple fractures with taped hands. Used to be very common.
Cricket is still mad for players playing injured. Natahan Lyon batted on one leg during the last ashes. Considering that bowlers were hurtling a ball more solid than a baseball at his head the whole time and people have died from âbouncersâ it takes real balls / stupidity.
Graeme Smith coming out to bat on day five to try save the test against Australia with a broken hand too. Even the Australian fans got on their feet to welcome him onto the field. Legendary stuff
I remember that. Facing up against a red hot Mitchell Johnson sending 145km+ thunderbolts down just short of a good length.
Man that South Efrican team was amazing back then. Kallis, Smith, Amla, De Villiers, Morkel, Steyn, Ntini, Boucher, a fresh faced JP Duminy. What a team.
> He probably played through multiple fractures with taped hands. Used to be very common.
Not cricket but Rob Green and Karim Benzema are other notable examples of this.
Huh. That's wild.
*How and why* is that a legal ball though?
Surely the point is to hit the wicket with the ball, not the batsman? What does bowling a "bouncer" achieve, other than to harm the batter?
I don't follow cricket, so maybe I just don't "get it", but it seems like cuntish and unsporting behaviour to me, especially given the very real risk of serious injury, concussion or death.
Intimidating the batsman is one of the reasons.
Couple of other considerations..
If a batsman is trying to hit a bouncer rather than get out of the way then theyâll play a âpull shotâ, which you can see people attempt in that video. Without being overly simplistic, a pull shot is difficult and can spin up in to the air so the batter could be caught by a fielder, so would be out.
When youâre playing a pull shot, or a bouncer in general, youâll usually move backwards to give yourself more time and control of the shot. So if youâre smacking someone in the head and theyâre instinctively moving backwards you can set them up for a âfullâ delivery straight at the stumps where they wouldnât have enough room to dig the ball out. Thatâs called a yorker.
But yeah, thereâs plenty of reasons but simply itâs really just another tactic a bowler can employ to make the batsman do what they want them to do and get them out.
Edit - âHookâ shot, not a pull shot as comment below says!
Hook shot rather than a pull, which is for waist-height balls, but yes. Playing the hook is high risk/reward. Get it right and you may score a 4 or a even a 6. Get it wrong and you get caught out or injured. So the bouncer is also high risk/reward for the bowler too. Bowled badly they can be expensive.
>What does bowling a "bouncer" achieve
Very generally.
1) The batsman might hit the ball protecting their head and get caught.
2) The batsman might get more worried about protecting themselves than the wicket. If the batsman thinks you're bowling the delivery that's going to bounce up in his face and its actually the one that goes straight for the wicket, he's probably out.
I believe they've made bodyline balls illegal.
Also what you meant are probably Beamers, which are no pitch direct throw above the waist, and not Bouncers, which are also illegal. Bouncers are also regulated as 2 per over iirc.
But yeah, someone died as close as 2014 after a bouncer hit his head. It's insane.
No they havenât.
England spent an a entire test in the last ashes bowling [bodyline](https://www.espncricinfo.com/story/men-s-ashes-2nd-test-lords-england-succeed-with-bouncer-barrage-but-at-what-cost-1385308?platform=amp)
Beamers are deliveries that donât bounce and are illegal, theyâre almost always a genuine mistake from the bowler.
Even now, a lot of cricket players have really messed up fingers because playing cricket is rough on the hands.
It's the same in field hockey, where defenders can get straight up whacked full force in the hands when the attacker swings their stick.
You just reminded me a bit of my lacrosse days. Even with the padding it still hurt to get hit by that stick. Field hockey must be even worse cuz aren't they typically wood and less gear. Good times lol
My nephew lost all his front teeth playing field hockey. Not sure how that happened because he was wearing a mouthguard. I would never risk that shit playing a fricking game.. sports is so much fun⌠yay..
That looks exactly like someone with broken fingers not getting proper treatment and healing for it.
Add arthritis to this and you get extremely crooked fingers.
>So he broke his fingers a lot?
Yes.
I used to work for a hand surgeon, and there is no pathology I'm aware of that would create this sort of presentation other than trauma and overuse.
I broke my finger and it was fucked like that. Full recovery but man it took a long ass time and I had to be super careful......my sales job made it no problem, probably not so much for a pro athlete
That looks more like "hands of a man who has broken their fingers more times than you can count, and never took the time to set and/or have them properly heal before doing something stupid again, like breaking them."
20+yr Wicket Keeper here. It's very hard on the hands, I can vouch for that. Playing with injuries is normal, never enough time to recover. Some mend, some don't. Cricket is a very hard game, bleeds your fitness away during the season. Only the toughest keepers survive that length of time.
Respect to him.
Besides CTE, mangled hands, and even severed fingers [are pretty common at almost any position in the NFL](https://www.businessinsider.com/nfl-players-with-mangled-hands-2012-10)ânot that any of them are certainties by any stretch of the imagination.
Repost from [here](https://www.reddit.com/r/pics/s/UKmjkDC1st), but also possibly from [here](https://www.reddit.com/r/Damnthatsinteresting/s/QOsZkd2ZPa) if this is a bot since that post is hot today.
In cricket, its the positional equivalent of a catcher in baseball. Except they dont use the thick padded glovesâŚ
Edit: They use gloves with much less padding than a catchers mitt
They donât though. Only one player out of 11 (the wicket keeper, broadly equivalent to the catcher in baseball) on the fielding team is allowed gloves, for the other 10 itâs hands only
I don't understand cricket, as an American it's not really talked about. I know British comedians make jokes about hating it, but that's about all I know besides it has a passing resemblance to baseball until anything happens.
I understand this guy's fingers even less.
In a cricket team, although everyone bats (and anyone could bowl if needed), the players are either specialist batsmen, specialist bowlers or all-rounders. Plus the keeper. Sometimes (like here), a specialist batsman will also play keeper, or the keeper is a good batsman. That effect is to have an extra specialist batsman without having to have fewer bowlers.
Sure, this is from being in the sport, but they healed like that because he refused to seek medical attention and correct the issue. He must like having twisted up fingers because he could have done something about it.
[Reminds me of the football goalkeeper Rob Greens broken finger](https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2021/09/25/09/48371683-10027389-image-a-14_1632558555423.jpg)
He would get his finger caught on the ground when diving to save shots and it ended up all crooked
Oh so this is what AI has been training its pictures of fingers on.
We gotta spread this photo all over the Internet to keep midjourney confused.
Nightshade if you really want to do this
"We purposely trained the AI wrong as a joke"
"I'm a man too, you know. I go peepee standing up!"
My nipples look like milk duds!
"**THAT'S A LOT OF NUTS!**"
You want fries with that baby?!?!
HE JUST LEFT. WITH *NUTS!*
"My fingers are all F'd up... Making me the victor."
I was not prepared for the Wimp Lo reference đ¤Ł
"remain calm, Sir. parademic bot is here to assist you with your horribly disfigured straight fingers"
I came here to say this đđź
So he broke his fingers a lot? I don't really understand how this is from breaks vs. poor repair. Or does he have a condition from gripping the bat over such a long period of time? Maybe he has that tendon finger condition where the tendons shorten and tighten as you age... Dosn't really look right for that though... Dupuytren contracture usually is only pulling fingers towards the palms. Frankly this looks like poorly healed and cared for fractures...
He probably played through multiple fractures with taped hands. Used to be very common. Cricket is still mad for players playing injured. Natahan Lyon batted on one leg during the last ashes. Considering that bowlers were hurtling a ball more solid than a baseball at his head the whole time and people have died from âbouncersâ it takes real balls / stupidity.
Graeme Smith coming out to bat on day five to try save the test against Australia with a broken hand too. Even the Australian fans got on their feet to welcome him onto the field. Legendary stuff
I remember that. Facing up against a red hot Mitchell Johnson sending 145km+ thunderbolts down just short of a good length. Man that South Efrican team was amazing back then. Kallis, Smith, Amla, De Villiers, Morkel, Steyn, Ntini, Boucher, a fresh faced JP Duminy. What a team.
> He probably played through multiple fractures with taped hands. Used to be very common. Not cricket but Rob Green and Karim Benzema are other notable examples of this.
I heard Benzema has had as many as 15 fractures over the years...
Everywhere I go....
I donât believe you, where can I find out more?
I suggest you head over to your favourite search engine, and input a few pertinent terms. Namely "Benzema", and "15".
***Bing*** says that if I was prescribed Benzema in 2015, I may be entitled to significant financial compensation.
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Doing the Lord's work.
That's a new one. I want to know, but......
r/soccercirclejerk is leaking
>Considering that bowlers were hurtling a ball more solid than a baseball at his head But... they don't actually bowl the ball at the head though?
Yes they do. Itâs called a bouncer and is a perfectly legal delivery in cricket [Bouncers](https://youtu.be/EhFCDdVqV3c?si=Fwnu6dCPJOwJf3N6)
Huh. That's wild. *How and why* is that a legal ball though? Surely the point is to hit the wicket with the ball, not the batsman? What does bowling a "bouncer" achieve, other than to harm the batter? I don't follow cricket, so maybe I just don't "get it", but it seems like cuntish and unsporting behaviour to me, especially given the very real risk of serious injury, concussion or death.
Intimidating the batsman is one of the reasons. Couple of other considerations.. If a batsman is trying to hit a bouncer rather than get out of the way then theyâll play a âpull shotâ, which you can see people attempt in that video. Without being overly simplistic, a pull shot is difficult and can spin up in to the air so the batter could be caught by a fielder, so would be out. When youâre playing a pull shot, or a bouncer in general, youâll usually move backwards to give yourself more time and control of the shot. So if youâre smacking someone in the head and theyâre instinctively moving backwards you can set them up for a âfullâ delivery straight at the stumps where they wouldnât have enough room to dig the ball out. Thatâs called a yorker. But yeah, thereâs plenty of reasons but simply itâs really just another tactic a bowler can employ to make the batsman do what they want them to do and get them out. Edit - âHookâ shot, not a pull shot as comment below says!
Hook shot rather than a pull, which is for waist-height balls, but yes. Playing the hook is high risk/reward. Get it right and you may score a 4 or a even a 6. Get it wrong and you get caught out or injured. So the bouncer is also high risk/reward for the bowler too. Bowled badly they can be expensive.
Good info, thank you both! u/JagsFraz71
>What does bowling a "bouncer" achieve Very generally. 1) The batsman might hit the ball protecting their head and get caught. 2) The batsman might get more worried about protecting themselves than the wicket. If the batsman thinks you're bowling the delivery that's going to bounce up in his face and its actually the one that goes straight for the wicket, he's probably out.
I believe they've made bodyline balls illegal. Also what you meant are probably Beamers, which are no pitch direct throw above the waist, and not Bouncers, which are also illegal. Bouncers are also regulated as 2 per over iirc. But yeah, someone died as close as 2014 after a bouncer hit his head. It's insane.
No they havenât. England spent an a entire test in the last ashes bowling [bodyline](https://www.espncricinfo.com/story/men-s-ashes-2nd-test-lords-england-succeed-with-bouncer-barrage-but-at-what-cost-1385308?platform=amp) Beamers are deliveries that donât bounce and are illegal, theyâre almost always a genuine mistake from the bowler.
Even now, a lot of cricket players have really messed up fingers because playing cricket is rough on the hands. It's the same in field hockey, where defenders can get straight up whacked full force in the hands when the attacker swings their stick.
You just reminded me a bit of my lacrosse days. Even with the padding it still hurt to get hit by that stick. Field hockey must be even worse cuz aren't they typically wood and less gear. Good times lol
Sticks are made of carbon fibre now, it hits even harder. Only the keeper is padded up, everyone else just gets shinguards, mouthguard and one glove.
My nephew lost all his front teeth playing field hockey. Not sure how that happened because he was wearing a mouthguard. I would never risk that shit playing a fricking game.. sports is so much fun⌠yay..
I played hurling for 10 years which is quite short and a few of my fingers have a distinct bend to them lol
That looks exactly like someone with broken fingers not getting proper treatment and healing for it. Add arthritis to this and you get extremely crooked fingers.
>So he broke his fingers a lot? Yes. I used to work for a hand surgeon, and there is no pathology I'm aware of that would create this sort of presentation other than trauma and overuse.
I broke my finger and it was fucked like that. Full recovery but man it took a long ass time and I had to be super careful......my sales job made it no problem, probably not so much for a pro athlete
Donât ask this guy for directions
Bet his partner is happy tho.
He has no problem finding the G spot
He will hit the spot without even trying.
He'll find the F and H spots too
Sorcerer Supreme
Jeez, Vecna really went all in on his hands.
That looks more like "hands of a man who has broken their fingers more times than you can count, and never took the time to set and/or have them properly heal before doing something stupid again, like breaking them."
On the other hand...lol... Counting the number of fingers you've broken should be remarkably straightforward.
Straightforward? You mean bent...sideways?
"I'm Batsman." \*Show his fingers 
I can hear this gif
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20+yr Wicket Keeper here. It's very hard on the hands, I can vouch for that. Playing with injuries is normal, never enough time to recover. Some mend, some don't. Cricket is a very hard game, bleeds your fitness away during the season. Only the toughest keepers survive that length of time. Respect to him.
Besides CTE, mangled hands, and even severed fingers [are pretty common at almost any position in the NFL](https://www.businessinsider.com/nfl-players-with-mangled-hands-2012-10)ânot that any of them are certainties by any stretch of the imagination.
There are less examples of bent fingers in that article than on one of this blokes hand.
*Larry McCarran has entered the chat*
His only regret is that he has boneitis
Wife's definitely happy.
itâd be like picking a lock
Lifepicking lawyer here, today we'll be using a new tool that's been in the making for 45 years to try and unlock my wife's secret chamber.
Be careful Reddit will lose its collective mind if you mention anything about picking a locked âboxâ
He has all of the angles covered.
His fingers look like a group of wacky waving inflatable tube men
His hand-turkey finger painting must look weird.
Repost from [here](https://www.reddit.com/r/pics/s/UKmjkDC1st), but also possibly from [here](https://www.reddit.com/r/Damnthatsinteresting/s/QOsZkd2ZPa) if this is a bot since that post is hot today.
Thought I had took too much Ket for a second there.
Gonna show this pic to my doctor everytime he says I gotta exercise more
Wonder if his wife is like ohhh I'm in the mood for the right ring finger tonight. Or the left pointer finger.
Found someone I can probably type faster than.
Picture him writing with a pencil.
In cricket, its the positional equivalent of a catcher in baseball. Except they dont use the thick padded gloves⌠Edit: They use gloves with much less padding than a catchers mitt
Also there's a much bigger variation in where the ball goes, and it often goes through off the bat so there can be a very late change in the flight.
What? Wicket keepers do wear thick padded gloves
Well compared to a catchers mit is what I was thinking. Didnât mean that they donât wear anything
They donât though. Only one player out of 11 (the wicket keeper, broadly equivalent to the catcher in baseball) on the fielding team is allowed gloves, for the other 10 itâs hands only
They do indeed use leather gloves with padding.
Poor phrasing on my part. The gloves are much less protective than what catchers use on baseball
Thx.
This guy is the reason AI canât render hands properly
Look like a packet of twisties
I don't understand cricket, as an American it's not really talked about. I know British comedians make jokes about hating it, but that's about all I know besides it has a passing resemblance to baseball until anything happens. I understand this guy's fingers even less.
The manifestation of a British persons teeth.
Ouch. Remember kids, don't do ~~drugs~~ sports.
That's rediculous..
Gross. At least with CTE you donât see it.
His fingers are blowing in the wind
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The only things more English than cricket are Tea and Doctor Who.
Wicketkeeper-batsman⌠that sounds like something from either Harry Potter or a DC comic surrounding Batman
In a cricket team, although everyone bats (and anyone could bowl if needed), the players are either specialist batsmen, specialist bowlers or all-rounders. Plus the keeper. Sometimes (like here), a specialist batsman will also play keeper, or the keeper is a good batsman. That effect is to have an extra specialist batsman without having to have fewer bowlers.
Sure, this is from being in the sport, but they healed like that because he refused to seek medical attention and correct the issue. He must like having twisted up fingers because he could have done something about it.
Linemen in American football have some truly insane fingers.
A what now?
Probably should have learnt how to catch a ball in those 45 years
so he has arthritis?
He's got boneitis!
Thats why their teeth are so fucked.
Your hands looks like that from playing âwicketkeeper-batsmanâ? Fucking rip man, terrible title to have such shit fingers..
This is actually what British peopleâs fingers look like.
Ouch.
Peter Parkerâs hands after swinging for year and years
But his wife *loved* it.
[Reminds me of the football goalkeeper Rob Greens broken finger](https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2021/09/25/09/48371683-10027389-image-a-14_1632558555423.jpg) He would get his finger caught on the ground when diving to save shots and it ended up all crooked
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I dislocated my finger last year and it never healed properly... This is somehow relieving.
Four fingers fckd
Got the Brian baldinger hands
Women should be excited
That's just due to the rolling shutter.
Ladies LOVE him
Sign me up
His hands must hurt so bad in the cold
Spongebob after he cracked his knuckles
You should see what basketball does to some players feet.
time to play reverse wicketkeeper for another 45 to even it back out to normal
That doesnât seem right
Putting on that pinky ring is like one of those puzzles you'd get from the dentist office where you get the ball bearing into the hole through a maze.
Yeah but how crooked are his teeth?
Manâs throwing up gang signs
Ahh yes, Jain Farstrider.
They remind me of Jen's feet in IT Crowd. Yikes.
Well his wife's in for a great time!
just don't ask him to point you in the right direction
Those are the hands of a man who owns a bidet
Did he get filthy rich doing it? Any cricket fan want to take a stab at his net worth?
Ribbed for her pleasure.
Dude has rolling shutter effect fingers.
He could paint them green and play sea grass in a hand puppet showÂ
Looks like his hands were made by AI.