September 21, 2005
The March of Time
It's that time of the year again. The cricket season is about to start in Australia.
This Saturday the Sydney Grade Cricket competition starts. And the following week the local comp begins here on the Central Coast. But I won't be playing.
I could have taken the hint last year. I vividly recall the moment during a pre-season training session when perhaps I should have realised that it was time to move aside and hang up my boots. I had just finished batting in the nets, rather poorly, and my son gave a cruel assessment of what he had just witnessed.
"Dad, you batted crap! The ball was hitting the back of the net before your bat was swinging through."
The best retort I could summon was: "You'll be 43 one day, son."
So in 2005/06 I'll be watching and coaching. Which brings to mind a comforting slogan: "The older you get, the better you were..."
Posted to Cricket by Keith Pitty