Back from injury

To my knowledge, of all the cricket blogs in cyberspace (for a comprehensive list, consult my insanely long blog roll in the right margin), there are only three about actually playing cricket rather than watching it. Jrod's Mountain Chickens, Get A Hundred and me. Unfortunately, I've been out with a knee injury for the past 6 months and Jrod just injured his knee. So it's lean times. But on the bright side, I'm back in business as knee surgery has me finally fit and playing (until I injure something else).

It was my first experience of surgery. We had just lost a family member a few weeks earlier who died after surgery so my faith in the Queensland Health system was at an all time low. The nurse shaved a foot's worth of leg hair around the knee then I changed into one of those hospital robes that gives ample view of my butt to anyone who happened to walk behind me. Then I was placed on a bed and wheeled into a room full of masked people who began sticking tubes into various parts of my body. I couldn't help reflecting this was the same procedure they used at Guantanomo Bay - torture by humiliation and helplessness.

Next thing I knew, I had woken up. A male nurse chatted with me, talking about his bizarre New Age theories. He described how he applied his "white energy" to the elderly at an aged care home and they would pass away afterwards. Okkkaaayyyyy... I feigned sleep in the hope that he would take his lethal white energy elsewhere.

I quite enjoyed the next few days. I was told to expect pain when the local wore off but there was only the usual soreness which was no worse than how my knee had felt for the past few years. But I milked my condition for all it was worth - rarely having to get up off the couch to get drinks, food or fetch the remote. I stopped short of using a catheter though.

Next was several weeks of physio. Some of the exercise described sounded a lot like the exercises on Wii Fit so I've been using that daily. Finally, the physio pronounced I was ready for cricket practice. He said I could go. When recounting it to my skeptical wife, I amplified his words slightly to say I should go to cricket practice. Hey, it's all part of the therapy, honey!

So last night, I turned up at the nets, eager to start unleashing the leggies. First ball, conventional legspinner, a bit flat, a bit short. Which is almost the universal first delivery from the legspinner. Bit flat, bit short. Need to loosen up the right shoulder but hey, it's been a few months.

Second ball, bit more flight, drifted across the batsman, he charged, swung and miss, stumping on the second delivery. Satisfying to say the least. Most importantly, the captain was watching at the time. Hopefully he'll file that information away come match time.

Next the captain came on to bat. He swung and missed a basic legspinner. Next one, a bit more flight, swing and miss. Next two, even flightier, again swing and miss. I started thinking of a full over of plays and misses. The fifth delivery was the flightiest yet. He charged, got it on the half volley and the ball nearly decapitated me on the way back. Okay, too much flight!

All in all, a good net session. Landed it in good areas. Plenty of turn. Knee pulled up only slightly stiff. The club is having a social game this Sunday so that'll be the first test drive - both of the knee and bowling in match conditions.

Posted by JC on Thu 23 Apr

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