If you are lucky you might find yourself bowling at or facing someone who hacked and limped their way through a club season or two.
Then again, it might just be Warren McSkimming running in at you or Robbie Lawson taking guard.
That is the situation the poor souls from a team called Country Calendar found themselves in yesterday.
They were drawn against The Vets whose line-up included both above-mentioned players.
McSkimming and Lawson forged lengthy first-class careers, playing more than 140 games between them.
The former could be a terror at the University Oval and took 238 wickets for Otago at an excellent average of 24.40. And Lawson scored a first-class double hundred, for crying out loud.
But all that experience does not necessarily guarantee success. While The Vets were unbeaten during the first two rounds, McSkimming has been getting clobbered and has taken only one wicket.
‘‘I'm in a bit of a predicament,'' he said a good few hours before the match.
‘‘Do I run in and bowl with a wee bit of heat on it because, as soon as I don't, they are all keen to whack me. They think this guy used to play a bit of cricket so I'll try to hit him.
‘‘I have been getting pumped and I've only taken one wicket and been going for 20-odd off my three overs.
‘‘I'm conceding more runs per over in masters cricket than I did playing for Otago. I'm being targeted,'' he laughed.
McSkimming was appointed Otago bowling coach this season - a role he fits in around his other work commitments - and said there had been some good-natured sledging directed his way.
‘‘It's all fun. The week has been a lot of fun, actually.'' He might not have been ripping through the top order as he once did, but he has been banging a few out of the middle with scores of 38 not out and 40 not out.
