Former England wicketkeeper Craig Kieswetter will discover this week whether he will able to continue play cricket or an eye injury he sustained last year will end his career prematurely.
Kieswetter damaged his eye socket while playing in English County Championship for Somerset against Northamptonshire. A ball from David Willey pierced through his helmet and hit him, due to which he sustained serious facial injuries.
The 27-year-old, after recovering from the injury, returned to cricket and while playing first-class cricket in South Africa discovered that his vision is not 100 per cent.
Kieswetter has already ruled himself out of playing in the next summer and will consult an eye-specialist in Belgium. Somerset director of cricket, Matthew Maynard hoped that Kieswetter should recover but revealed that he might have to hang his boots.
“We’re hoping that after he sees the specialist he’ll have a method of getting his eye back to 100%,” Maynard said. “The feedback we get from that will be quite instrumental, but potentially it could be career-ending.”
“If we were to get him back that would be a huge lift for everyone,” he added. “But we are planning for him to not be around this season.”
