The Senegalese marksman went head to head with SIPG protector and skipper Sun Xiang in the 63rd moment of his side's 2-1 Chinese Super League triumph.
As the pair fell, Ba's left leg was gotten between the turf and his rival's boot, bowing at a sickening edge and after that seeming to snap frightfully underneath the knee.
Shenhua's restorative group hustled on to the pitch without sitting tight for the official's sign and the match was halted for eight minutes while the Chinese Super League's top scorer, with 14 objectives, was dealt with on the pitch before being taken to healing facility.
Talking after the match, an obviously shaken Shenhua mentor Gregorio Manzano said the episode was possibly vocation finishing.
"In my 33 years as a mentor I have won, drawn and lost diversions, however today is the most astringent triumph since what happened to Demba Ba is the thing that nobody ever needs to see," Manzano said.
"Football is unreasonable in some cases to give such a ghastly thing a chance to happen to such a decent man. That could end a player's vocation."
Shenhua, who won the match 2-1, portrayed the damage as a broken leg and said the occurrence — for which Sun was not booked — was "shocking" in an announcement discharged on Monday.
Manzano told nearby media that Ba, who likewise played for Newcastle and West Ham in England, would be out for no less than seven months.
"In the event that I can pick, I'd preferably lose the match than lose Demba Ba," Manzano told the Shanghai daily paper.
– Tempestuous derby –
SIPG's mentor, the previous England supervisor Sven-Goran Eriksson, communicated sensitivity, as indicated by Shanghai Daily, saying: "It was a terrible damage. I'm extremely sad for Ba."
Ba's previous club Chelsea posted a message of backing on their official Twitter channel.
"All at Chelsea FC send our all the best to previous striker @dembabafoot. Get well soon Demba." it said.
The occurrence took the gleam off a throbbing and stormy Shanghai derby viewed by more than 24,000 fans that saw 10 yellow and two red cards as both sides completed with 10 men.
Chinese global forward Wu Lei put SIPG ahead in the 55th moment with a dazzling strike from fresh.
Shanghai-conceived playmaker Cao Yunding leveled for Shenhua with only three minutes of the 90 left, before a Freddy Guarin punishment five minutes into included time fixed a sensational 2-1 win for the home side.
Somewhere else huge spending Jiangsu Suning lost 3-0 away to recently advanced Yanbian Fude in the stun aftereffect of the Chinese Super League weekend activity.
Furthermore, a late twofold from Chinese universal midfielder Zheng Long in the most recent 10 minutes saw Luiz Felipe Scolari's table-garnish Guangzhou Evergrande beat Changchun Yatai 2-1 far from home to expand their lead over second place Suning to 13 focuses.