Ouch

Been a while since I played indoor cricket. Got a call up yesterday and, having a free Wednesday for once, popped on over and played a match. Now I have noticed a bit with 20/20 that my hands notice the hardness of the cricket ball a bit more than they used to, but last night was something else.

Sure it has a lot to do with the Centres ridiculous notion of relacquering the ball repeatedly which makes it eventually be a hard as a rock, but I was stunned at how much it was hurting my hands.

Fielding at receiver didn't help either with throws coming in and countless times being required to stop a ball being belted for 7 or for 5. I have little bruises on various parts of my hands from it which makes me feel like a soft c@#k.

Anyway was good to have a run again. Thought I played alright and was a bit impressed at my own pace in my first bowling over. Fielding took a while to get used to again but I was picking up and placing myself into position beautifully, just my hands were letting me down. By the end though I managed to run out a 7 and got a couple of slap ons to the stumps run outs as well.

All in all was a good piece of fun. Now to resist wanting to play indoor cricket more often...