A painful start

I am typing this one-handed.

My cricket season commenced on Saturday and things didn't go according to plan.

We batted first, and coming in at #5 I made a steady 14 before chasing a ball that skidded a bit more than I expected.

But it was the fielding where things went badly. In the fifth over of the opposition innings in this friendly, standing at square leg I went hard to my right for catch. The batsman had struck the ball hard and it would have raced to the boundary except that the top of my little finger on my right hand got in the way.

The result was a badly dislocated finger, the very top bone popping out of the joint, while the next bone down had torn a hole in the skin and was saying "hello" to the fresh air.

I am very lucky that there were no fractures or chips, so the procedure at the hospital for getting things back into place was relatively straight forward. I have a stitch or two in the tear in my finger and the finger is well bandaged.

I wont be playing cricket for six to eight weeks.