1. Michael Atherton
The former English cricketer, Michael Atherton, was diagnosed with AS during his days. AS in medical expression as an autoimmune disease, which suggests that during this disorder, the body's system attacks its cells. AS typically affects the spine and the muscles of the rear, whereby the sufferer complains of a painful back and cannot stretch and regulate the powers of the end. Atherton was diagnosed with this sickness in his 20s. The congenital disease that had concluded Atherton's father Alan's soccer career continued to haunt him throughout his career and persuaded him to get hydrocortisone injections into his sacroiliac joint. The gritty slugger managed to carve out a productive and relatively long international trade despite all difficulties. Restricted drives, restricted movements of muscles associated with unrelenting pain couldn't dampen the champion's spirits.
2. Mansoor Ali Khan Pataudi
The first unorthodox captain of the Republic of India infused fearlessness in his teammates and altered the face of cricket. In India, virtually single-handed get forced to play for the essential part of his career with one fully functional eye when he was injured in a car accident month before he was declared the Indian captain. The then youngest captain of the Republic of India at the age of twenty-one years, Pataudi went on to steer his team in forty of his forty-six career matches, winning 9 of them. Such was his perseverance that he came to terms with all the imaginary optical pictures created due to his broken right eye and continued to play cricket with no complaints for quite some time.
3. Brian Lara
Legendary cricketer and former West Indies skipper Brian Lara took the globe by storm together with his approach of measured aggression. Arguably, the best middle-order ballplayer made by the Caribbean nations post their golden age, Lara was the epitome of talent and diligence. He was diagnosed with serum hepatitis throughout the Champions Trophy in the capital of Sri Lanka in Sep 2002. After rating a century, he had rushed to the hospital, and their medical practitioners confirmed the sickness. That is why he dropped from the team, and the West Indies Cricket Board refused to issue an in-depth statement on Lara's condition, citing privacy reasons. Afterward, the Southpaw went on to get four hundred not out in Tests 2 years later – a record that stands even nowadays. Geniuses like Brian Charles Lara have a never-say-die spirit.
4. Michael Clarke
Former Australian skipper Michael Clarke had to live throughout his adult life with back problems. He was diagnosed with decimated intervertebral discs soon after he attained manhood. That, however, hardly affected Clarke, who emerged as an aesthetic stroke-maker and a reliable middle-order batsman for the Kangaroos in the last few years. However, local flexibility did not affect the swashbuckling cricketer who continued diving and playing expansive copy-book drives, silently absorbing bit-by-bit physical agony. Mental toughness assumes an entirely different meaning when defining Clarke and his ever-lasting struggles. Clarke was also diagnosed in 2005 with a low-grade carcinoma on his face, thanks to heavy exposure to the sun.
5. Bhagwat Chandrasekhar
Former Indian cricketer Bhagwat Chandrasekhar found his right arm withered and gaunt after a severe bout of infantile paralysis at 3. But Chandrasekhar turned his deformity into a plus. The thinness of his arm accounted for extra flexibility, allowing him to infuse more effectiveness in his top-spins. Maturity and a complete understanding of his physical abilities made him emerge as a fatal match-winner for the Asian nation. Chandrasekhar scalped ninety-eight wickets in fourteen matches, together with eight five-fours and two 10-wicket hauls.
6. Ryan Harris
The Australian cricketer had a floating bone, downside caused by previous injuries that had left him with very little gristle in his right knee. His knee would inflate after each day's play, and his doctor would nag him to get surgery done. However, going for the removal of bone fragments in his knee meant Harris would have to miss the last 2 Ashes Tests against England. Eager to play the five regular matches altogether, the speedster deferred his surgery. He bore the pain throughout the series and finished up with a banging tally of twenty-two wickets. His heroics earned Australia a series ending within the third check itself.
7. Wasim Akram
Dynamic Pakistani swing bowler Wasim Akram consulted a doctor once he began displaying diabetic symptoms together with considerable weight loss, thirst, and fatigue. He was diagnosed with DM, in which the body fails to provide enough internal secretion. It happened when the veteran Pakistani bowler was at his peak. Initially, it rattled him before he decided to conquer the disease and carry on with his playing career. His resolve won him another 250 wickets before he hung his boots and was considered worthy of a place in the Hall of Fame in September 2009.
8. Shoaib Akhtar
Critics invariably had disparaged whereas talking about the Pakistani pacer Shoaib Akhtar's bowling action. Strangely, none appeared convinced about his anatomical anomaly being what it was. Whereas debates concerning whether his 'defect' provided him with an unfair advantage over his contemporaries continued to don the headlines, hardly any soul took notice of the means Shoaib's body was breaking into pieces after each delivery bowled. Considered a medical sensation, Akhtar's anomaly lay therein. His elbow may hold out or bend the 'wrong way up to forty degrees in distinction to the highest price of twenty degrees for a traditional person. It was the case all told this joint. No wonder, therefore, that his career was troubled with injuries, and he would need injections to get rid of fluids from his joints. Further, Akhtar possessed flat feet – a condition that prevented him from walking straight since he was 5-years-old. The bowler, however, braced all the chances and egged himself on till he was running in national colors and giving deliveries at 100mph.
9. Martin Guptill
At the young age of fourteen, the Kiwi cricket player gets involved in a crown self-propelled vehicle truck accident that resulted in the surgical amputation of the three smaller toes of his left foot. Since then, he calls himself 'Two Toes,' a reminder of the accident that almost ended his life. According to Father Peter, Guptill became additionally determined subsequently. "When he realized he could walk and do everything once more, he got right back to it, even harder than before. I feel Guptil realized in a flash might lose everything; thus Guptil is making the most of it," the senior Guptill same. The determination and perseverance were evident once he smashed his way to an undefeated 189 in the second ODI against the European country in June 2013, guiding his team to an 86-run triumph within the series, paving his way to the very best ODI score by a New Zealand player.
10. Yuvraj Singh
Months after the pictures of Asian nation all-rounder Yuvraj Singh bending on his knees and belting out a battler roar. After winning runs against Australia in the 2011 tourney hit the headlines, national newspapers and distinguished media homes were dismayed after being told that the 2011 tourney Player of the Tournament was down with cancer. Although the doctors had assured him of cure, the initial impact had stumped the Southpaw. After undergoing a stressful therapy programmer in the USA, Yuvraj came to international cricket after many months and staged a heroic comeback against New Zealand in a T20 match in 2012.
