If You Play Cricket which department u r best?

[arsalan660]

I am best in bowling but bat good at end and scores agrresively and scores more runs

i am all-rounder but best in bowling so i will vote for bowling for me
vote for the best one.

[Mongoose]

I am a batting genius, whose amazing ability has never received due recognition, nor been turned into any scores of more than 18 in senior cricket. So, on that evidence, my handy bowling (before injury) gets the vote. When I make my comeback, I want to work on my batting until I can truly call myself an all-rounder.

[Oliver]

I was a very handy inswing trundler until 19th June this year, when I severely damaged my right rotator cuff for the second time in seven seasons.

It seems likely at this juncture that I will never bowl again, which is... somewhat disappointing.
I'd just got within seven wickets of the all time club record when I did the damage. So to say that I'm just a little hurt by the onset of mid-winter nets in which I am unable to participate, is a mild understatement.

Fifteen years ago, when my club didn't have all that many batsman there was an argument for me holding down the "hanging on for grim death" role at number one, while all the blacksmiths, mechanics, tennis players and genuine sloggers played around me - but now sadly that is not realistic, as we do have a vast array of attacking batting talent.

If I can't bowl come next season, I will probably retire to the role of scorer and occasional twelfth man.
I will get VERY fat and bitter and twisted.

Hopefully my general good humour and relaxed approach to life will save me from the latter two.

[Zainub]

Thankfully for the club, league, first class and test cricket community, I have never played even a single game at the competitive level. I'm going to being honest now, brutally honest in fact. When I play casually at home, I try my hand on everything from under arm bowling to wicket keeping. I am basically what one can describe as being a joke of a player. Simply not strong or good enough. An underweight and short version of Rickie Clarke in other wards (although with much, much better hair) : can't bat properly, can't bowl at all and have only caught one or two catches all my life. By definition poor.

[adamberry]

This'll be difficult, i'm a keeper-batsman and just as good in both disciplines! I suppose i'll have to stick my neck on the line and say i'm marginally better as a wicket-keeper, despite my exuberant batting.

[Mongoose]

Originally Posted by Oliver

It seems likely at this juncture that I will never bowl again, which is... somewhat disappointing.

As a fellow crock, you have my full sympathy. But don't give up just yet. Even if you can't bowl, you might find it worthwhile continue as a batsman, even if it means dropping down a level or two. Club cricket is much more than just competing in a game. You spend pretty much a whole day each weekend at the cricket, meeting people and enjoying the experience of being part of a team.

Anyway, what a rotator thingy that you've injured? And what does this mean in terms of pain/restricted movement/other limitations? I know I can bowl pretty close to normal on my dodgy knee, but after a certain point it can't take any kind of exercise at all. So I'm OK in the nets, but in a match, with fielding etc, there's no chance.

[Aussie-Yank]

Had to go for both as at my prime I was just shy of being able to play for Queensland. The shame of things it was not due to batting or bowling that stopped me from attaining a spot with Queensland. It was my fielding sucked. I would be happy with KP's 2 from 8 catching record, yes thats how bad I was.

Now, with age I think I would struggle to be the drink waiter in a bottom of the table clash in the lowest division I could find.

[Oliver]

Originally Posted by Mongoose

But don't give up just yet. Even if you can't bowl, you might find it worthwhile continue as a batsman, even if it means dropping down a level or two.

I am all but a founder member of my current club. I started out as a batsman... then practically over night (or during an off-season) when I particularly tubbed up, I suddenly became a devastating bowler. For the last few years, I have at times carried the attack as all our fast bowlers have been gradually peeling off, marrying and sprogging.

I have done the stats since 1985... and I can't bear the thought of handing over all my beloved record books (spreadsheets) to somebody else. If I don't play for this club, I won't play for another.

Originally Posted by Mongoose

Anyway, what a rotator thingy that you've injured? And what does this mean in terms of pain/restricted movement/other limitations?

Originally Posted by "About Orthopedics"

The rotator cuff is actually a group of four muscles and their tendons that wraps around the front, back, and top of the shoulder joint. Together the rotator cuff muscles help guide the shoulder through many motions, and also lend stability to the joint. The ends of the rotator cuff muscles form tendons that attach to the arm bone (humerus). It is the tendinous portion of the muscle that is usually involved in a rotator cuff injury.

The injury is seen both in the young and old, but they are much more common in the older population. Usually in younger patients, there is either a traumatic injury, or the patient is demanding unusual use of their shoulder, as seen in professional athletes.
As people age, the muscle and tendon tissue of the rotator cuff loses some elasticity, becomes more susceptible to injuries, and is often damaged while performing everyday activities. This is the reason that rotator cuff tears are more commonly seen in older patients.

On the 19th June I was still a mere 43. I came into bowl, the batsman drove hard in a roughly rightish direction, within my formerly athletic body's compass... I belly-flopped at (or near) the ball, intending to gracelessly field it with my right hand. Unfortunately my current, less than impressive, body shape disenabled me from the clean pick up that would have saved four runs, and instead I fell onto the point of my elbow which consequently jarred upwards into the shoulder joint and damaged the tendon of the supra spinatus muscle.

I have spent a good deal on physio-therapy as I did seven years ago, and I am being encouraged to have a cortisone injection around February to bring down the swelling and allow continued (EXPENSIVE) treatment.

There comes a time, when one wonders just who precisely is getting the benefit of the physio's costly treatments.

Anyway, if you've ever read any of my essays on Andrew Flintoff and cortisone; you will understand that I don't hold with those sorts of medical "advancements."

There will come a time, in about three months, when I absolutely have to make a decision.
At the moment I am a retired club cricketer.

[Zainub]

On reflection now, I should have voted for you in the funniest poster contest, Ollie!

[Oliver]

This is a serious piece Zainub!

My descriptions may cause mirth, but it is a serious article.