6 cricketers who got injured in a bizarre manner

4. Matthew Hayden

The 2006-07 cricket session wasn’t an ideal one for Australia’s star batsman Matthew Hayden as he succumbed to back-to-back two injuries that resulted in him getting sidelined for the entire cricket session. Hayden had broken his finger and thus was on a sabbatical from the game. 

Thus, to get rid of his boredom, the Aussie player decided to leisurely go for a jog one day around his house. However, this proved to be a mistake on Hayden’s part as a local dog saw him running and attacked him. The bite from the dog punctured his skin, and he had to be rushed to the hospital with a five cm-deep gash in his ankle.

After getting a little better, Matthew Hayden had opined on the whole incident saying, “It was a vicious attack. I was just out for a leisurely run. You are always a bit shocked by that sort of thing, but I was more disappointed than anything. It just hasn’t been my week.”