10 times a bowler knocked out a batsman on the pitch

8 Allan Donald hits UAE captain, 1996 World Cup, Rawalpindi

Allan Donald

UAE captain Sultan Zarawani was a flamboyant man who owned sports cars and had a penchant for showing his teammates that he feared no one. However, going out without a helmet against 'white lightning' Allan Donald in the World Cup game at Rawalpindi in 1996 was perhaps not one of his brightest ideas. It was like waving the proverbial red rag in front of a raging bull and he had what had been coming.

Donald dug one in short and it hit Zarawani bang on the head. Donald had later written in his autobiography that he had feared that Zarawani might have been actually killed by the impact. Nothing of that sort happened but it remains one of the most brutal knockout blows from a bowler to a batsman.