Summer Sporting Fixes

[Ramshank72]

Golf, nowt else! Gone off cricket until Ashes!

The Ashes will put you off, it's gonna be a particularly painful one this time around

[macstheman]

With regard to the sound of willow on leather, I shall, at some point, pay a visit to my old club over here for an afternoon of fun and beer. Renew some old acquaintances and reminisce about the man who's faster than his shadow. Playing a midweek game against a touring side from England, I was stood at extremely silly midoff, a handful of yards from the bat, ball came down, shot was played and I caught the ball, two handed, about a foot above my head. It hurt like hell but the batsman didn't get to see that, just the smile on my face. These days it would be halfway to the boundary before I even moved but it was a magnificent reflex catch.

I recall one occasion when I was involved in a similar situation, the difference being that I didn't pull off a spectacular catch! Instead the ball flew straight into my nether regions which resulted in a high pitched scream followed by a slump to the ground with my hands immediately clutching my groin area (presumably to see if anything remained!). I was immediately surrounded by my team mates not, I may add, in sympathy for my discomfort by rather to congratulate me on a brilliant catch! What I was clutching was the offending ball not the source of my excruciating pain lol.
Still makes me wince to think about it.

[macstheman]

The Ashes will put you off, it's gonna be a particularly painful one this time around

Probably so RS but one can hope!