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England wicketkeeper Craig Kieswetter retires after eye injury

England and Somerset wicket-keeper Craig Kieswetter has took retirement from all forms of cricket with an immediate effect due to a serious eye injury, sustained last summer.

The 27-year-old gloveman suffered an injury to his eye through his helmet grille when a ball hit him while batting in a County Championship match against Northants in July 2014.

The South-African born cricketer has played 46 ODIs and 25 Twenty20 internationals for England, but was never played at Test level.
In first-class cricket Kieswetter has scored 5728 runs at 39.23 since his Somerset debut in 2007. He was also part of England’s T20 World Cup winning squad in the West Indies.

Craig Kieswetter Career (2007-2014)


For England:
46 ODIs
25 T20Is

First Class:
115 Matches Avg 39.23
List A: 134 Matches Avg 39.38
T20’s: 124 Matches Avg 31.76

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  1. UnknownJune 20, 2015 at 2:47 AM

    I really feel sorry for him. Such a departure from what he loved and the career he had dreamed of. His experience was traumatic. It completely shattered his self-confidence. Hope, he’ll come out of it soon.

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