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Red-faced Denly not the first

Author: John Harris
Date: 12/09/2009
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Opening batsman Joe Denly was prevented from making his international bow on the big stage after a freak training ground accident but the Kent star is not the only sportsman to be left red-faced.

The traditional game of football ended when Denly suffered a knee injury during a contest for the ball with Owais Shah, the latest in a long line of bizarre injuries.

Rangers defender Kirk Broadfoot was left with egg on his face after a spot of cookery went wrong.

The Scotland international was sent to hospital with burns to his cheekbone, after a microwave accident. As he attempted to poach two eggs, one exploded in his face, spurting boiling water all over his skin.

To tennis. Kim Clijsters has just beaten sportsbook favourite Venus Williams at the US Open on her way to attempting to become the first mother to win a Grand Slam, but even she has been clumsy in the past.

Like Denly, Clijsters was playing football when she tripped over her dog Diesel and was forced to take time off from training.

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To the hard knocks of rugby league and Australian tough guy Jamie Ainscough was forced to sit out a match with a problem picked up a month earlier, after his arm became infected. When the ex-Wigan man complained of pain in his arm, scans revealed that there was a tooth lodged in it.

The tooth belonged to team-mate Sean Gleeson and Ainscough played three times in between the injury and the diagnosis. It's quite difficult finding something to say about the episode, apart from Ainscough promising Gleeson that the tooth would get back to him.

Switching codes and typical mad rugby antics, though they are the type which belong in an amateur clubhouse rather than an England Test match.

Maurice Colclough emptied the contents of a bottle of aftershave, downing the 'drink' to the amazement of his team-mates.

Disgruntled prop Colin Smart, not one to be outdone, then decided to copy his antics. However, after he downed a bottle of perfume, Smart, or not so smart, had to be taken to hospital to have his stomach pumped.

England scrum-half Steve Smith commented of the episode: "Colin was in a bad way, but his breath smelled lovely."

Formula One is as dangerous as any sport, just ask Fernando Alonso. But so is day-to-day driving and this is disregarding outside dangers.

Diminutive former Aston Villa full-back Alan Wright had to use every inch of his small stature to reach the accelerator in his new Ferrari.

But when trying to put his foot down, he hyper-extended his knee and was forced to swap cars while recovering. He then bought the slightly less glamorous Rover 416.

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