
Date of birth: | 8th October 1983 |
Place of birth: | Blackburn |
Batting style: | right handed middle order bat - formerly cultured nurdler, now a fat slogger |
Bowling style: | don't bowl much nowadays but previously right arm bouncy medium pace windmills |
Fielding position: | cover, short extra, slip |
Marital status: | single |
Nickname: | too many to list here |
Height: | 6 feet 7 inches |
Weight: | 18 and 19 stone depending on when my last takeaway was |
Previous clubs: | none (been at GHCC since 9 yrs old) |
1st XI debut | 1st August 2004 vs Blackburn Northern away (we won, pro Andrew Crook scored 100) |
Best batting performance: | 59 not out vs Baxenden in 2010 |
Best bowling performance: | 6/68 off 16 overs vs Clitheroe away in 2007 |
Cricketing honours: | Current GHCC 3rd XI captain. Ribblesdale Youth League U15 league winners 1999. |
First cricketing memories: | former GHCC professional Paul Hutchison visiting my primary school in 1994 and talking to a group of us as 10 year olds about how he enjoyed aiming for the cars of opposition players when he was batting. I also remember when Stuart Maher was a batsman. |
Theories on cricket: | Play to win, but more to enjoy it and to develop yourself and others to become better players. Fielding is boring but necessary and wins you games. If you enjoy fielding then you need to have a long hard look at yourself, but if you can be good at it then your team will be successful. Work together as a team, celebrate each other's individual successes, and always have a pint or 5 after the game whether you win or lose. |
Cricketing heroes: | Sir Curtly Elconn Lynwall Ambrose, Dwayne Leverock, Merv Hughes, Tim Holden |
Cricketing superstitions: | never wear a thigh pad |
Family cricketing links: | brother plays at GHCC too |
Hobbies: | football, cricket |
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