I was playing indoor cricket in the Sydney Bankstown league and got selected to play a first division competition match.

Well there were some NSW grade players there on the night and I was selected to play on the same team as a youngish kid named Wayne Holdsworth, who had played a few games for Australia which I thought was fantastic. He was at the time considered the fastest bowler in Australia and after facing him in the warm-up I reckon he was like lightning.

We bowled/ fielded first and in the first over Wayne bowled and the batsman snicked the ball and it hit our wicket keeper in the mouth dislodging some teeth and he went off with blood streaming from his mouth.

As I had done some wicket keeping I was asked to keep which I did the next over with no problem.

Then Wayne bowled again, first ball a leg-cutter and it went straight through the batsman's guard, straight over middle stump and collected me right in the nuts.

I wasn't wearing a protector box (as I wasn't expecting to keep) and I went down like a pile of shit writhing in pain. Well my balls swelled up like grape fruit and I had to sleep with a pillow between my knees for the next 2 weeks and it took that amount of time for the swelling to go down. To cough was like somone was booting me in the nuts and the pain was 10 fold that and when compared to breaking a colorbone.

Also isn't it strange how the most delicate, soft sweet woman can bring you to tears by just flicking your ball bag ever so gently with her finger.