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[tim2000s]

I saw this picture of Ian Healy's fingers on Twitter from Alternative Cricket and wondered how other wicketkeepers on here had faired with finger damage....? Care to show/tel?

[The_Bird]

Healy looks to've got off lightly

[trypewriter]

I'm not a keeper, but I can tell you this, all those little dings and nicks that you get in your youth - you know, the ones where you thought you might have dislocated it, but hadn't, the one that you thought had cracked something, but hadn't. They all come back to haunt you in later life. You think to yourself, why is that finger looking a bit misshapen and is giving me a twinge on this cold morning? Then you have to cast your mind back about 20-30 years, to the one you thought you had got away with at the time. If you are inclined towards arthritis you can expect it earlier. Glucosamine helps.

[Simmy]

mine are all straight and fine.. u know y...

because i can catch

[tim2000s]

mine are all straight and fine.. u know y...

because i can catchBecause no-one bowls at me at 90+mph...

[fatbats]

mine are all straight and fine.. u know y...

because i can catch

Because you wear padded oven gloves

[Mortimer]

I saw this picture of Ian Healy's fingers on Twitter from Alternative Cricket and wondered how other wicketkeepers on here had faired with finger damage....? Care to show/tel?

that's nothing compared to a Kiwi called Graham Dowling; he had to have half a finger amputated after an injury keeping wicket!

http://www.espncricinfo.com/ci/content/player/36837.html

[captaingrumpy]

My little fingers have both been broken & dislocated keeping wicket.
The left little finger curves quite nicely towards my ring finger, and the right little finger has an enlarged joint.

Best of all though was a tumour (didn't know it was a tumour - thought it was a break) that I had underneath the finger nail on the ring finger of my right hand.
My finger would bang against the rubber insert of my keeping gloves regularly and at times I'd be cursing with the pain.

Saw the GP about it and she diagnosed it & a few months later the nail was removed along with the tumour.
All ok now, but I had about 10 years of pain with it.

[johan95]

Nothing dramatic as yet, but we will have to see what the situation is in 5 or so years time!

[Manormanic]

mine are all straight and fine.. u know y...

because none of our bowlers have beaten the outside edge in ten seasons