It hurts...

I played the first official game of the 20/20 Cricket season on Sunday.  The weather was nice, but cloudy.  We were playing the team full of Caribbean folks.  They won the toss and elected to bat first.  10 minutes before the game, I found out that I was keeping.  Not a problem, I thought.  Except that it had been almost 13 years since I kept wickets at that level.  I padded up and enthusiastically ran in.  I did much better than I expected - did not concede any byes and did not drop any catches.  But I ended up blocking some balls which I would have gathered cleanly, 13 years ago!  They scored 125 in 20 overs, and it was drizzling pretty much all through their inning.  But when we started, the rain started coming down heavily.  I was padded up to go in at #3, but the game was called off after 3 overs in our inning.

While I had not had any issues keeping the wickets, I realized late in the evening that my legs hadn't liked my wicketkeeping stint!  I had to get to the crouching position about 150 times during the game.  I have been biking a bit and running a little this spring, I was in no shape to do that many sit-ups.  It's been really painful the last two days, especially climbing down the stairs!!!  I have the next game on Saturday.  I am hoping that the pain would have subsided by then, so that I can keep the wickets again.