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weird sports that begin with C -- and then, the pain.
so, okay, you think falling and banging your knee on the ice hurts?
well, yes, it does. BUT:
a cricket ball is small, and hard, and fast, and has a seam (a rougher seam than a baseball), and when it hits you right in the middle of the quadriceps? twice? yeah, that's a whole different kind of pain.
it would actually hurt less, i think, if it had hit the fat-cushioned inside of my thigh. this got me right on the most muscular spot on my leg, and man, it hurts a bunch. less than ten minutes later i could feel, through my jeans, that the spot had not only bruised but swollen -- there's a bump on my leg and it's on a tough muscle-y spot, as if i'd hit my head and had a goose-egg, only this is so emphatically not right over the bone. i took a ball to the outside of the other leg, as well, right above the knee (the bowler was having some trouble finding the center, i was having some trouble resisting my softball-growing-up muscle memory, and the pads were the wrong size), but that's a much less painful spot.
i like this game a lot. :-D
well, yes, it does. BUT:
a cricket ball is small, and hard, and fast, and has a seam (a rougher seam than a baseball), and when it hits you right in the middle of the quadriceps? twice? yeah, that's a whole different kind of pain.
it would actually hurt less, i think, if it had hit the fat-cushioned inside of my thigh. this got me right on the most muscular spot on my leg, and man, it hurts a bunch. less than ten minutes later i could feel, through my jeans, that the spot had not only bruised but swollen -- there's a bump on my leg and it's on a tough muscle-y spot, as if i'd hit my head and had a goose-egg, only this is so emphatically not right over the bone. i took a ball to the outside of the other leg, as well, right above the knee (the bowler was having some trouble finding the center, i was having some trouble resisting my softball-growing-up muscle memory, and the pads were the wrong size), but that's a much less painful spot.
i like this game a lot. :-D
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