By Martin Robinson, Southbank CC
Southbank CC are having a tough season in the East Lindsey League (ELCL), currently vying for the wooden spoon with Brocklesby Park, whom we face this Sunday coming. We regularly face ECB Premier League players and the standard of the league is getting higher. However, we have three/four youngsters playing and everbody getting a bowl or a bat.
Next season the ELCL will go to two divisions and hopefully we will do better against teams of a similar standard.
My season (and career) have been blighted by injuries. This season I broke a knuckle at Grainthorpe, trying to catch a bullet of a shot. Then, three weeks ago, against Sutton on Sea, whilst bowling off my very short run, I toppled over and twisted my ankle but carried on bowling and took three wickets. The leg went in pot for 10 days (fortunately not broken).
The only cricket I will be playing for a while will be on the beach!
This in a career in which I have broken a wrist diving into the crease whilst batting, had a thumb broken in the Gy League trying to catch Barry Hanslip, and a shoulder broken at Hibaldstow some five years ago trying a international-type dive on the boundary. Plus the usual muscle strains, bust lips, etc…
NF adds: Good to hear from Martin, against whom we always enjoyed playing in the old Lincs League division five. Here's a man whose approached to club cricket has always been first class, even if his ability, like so many of us, falls some way short of approaching that description.
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