Cricketing achievement

Not really a rant, more a self-congratulatory diary entry. To set the scene:

I was playing for Didcot 2nds (they were desperate) away to Henley 3rds on Saturday. Standard 46 over match, I came in batting at No. 10 with the score on 108-8. We needed 120 for the next batting point, as we'd already figured that we had nowhere near enough runs with a weak bowling attack to come.

Anyway, after a couple of slashes and 3 scoring shots, I was on 4 after 5 balls faced. I was facing the last ball of the innings from the (rather slow) bowler who had already taken 7 wickets, with the score on 119-8. The ball was then smashed straight past the bowler for an enormous six. At least 20 yards beyond the boundary. Possibly more Babe Ruth than Michael Atherton, but who cares.

That was only the third six of my entire career, but by far the largest. I realise there are an awful lot of cricketers far better than me out there. While I'm so fat and unfit that I have lost the art of bowling (once upon a time I was a decent quick bowler), I get my pleasures where I can, and that one shot made it all worth while.

We lost badly, as they got the required 126 to win in about 25 overs, only losing one wicket on the way, but still. I took one of the positives out of it, though.

There - me gloating possibly, but when you're as crap at sport as I seem to be (can't even beat a hung-over Dan at squash, have never yet scored a try in an entire rugby-playing lifetime at centre or wing), you enjoy the small personal milestones.

Back to the mundane.