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Name : Raj

Age : 37

Top score : 104*

Best figures 3-9

Team played for(1s,2s,3s etc): School, then friendlies, this will be 1st year back in a league team - Sheffield Uni Staff (tho I am not on the uni staff)

Favourite bat you've ever had: My first Duncan Fearnley size 6 - made my first half century with it in school game  vs St Benedicts back on 1990

Best food to have at teas: pork pie and crisps and bakewell tarts

Batting style: (Very) Traditional

Bowling style: off spin

Interesting fact about your cricket: nothing interesting - I'm fitter now than when I was at school?

[SOULMAN1012]

Name : Chris

Age : 32

Top score : 210 in club 2 day game, 176* league sat, 159 Sunday league

Best figures 7-37

Team played for 1st team at School and championship side in league cricket

Favourite bat you've ever had: Salix vantage G1 was my first Kember bat followed by HitsHard

Best food to have at teas: sausage rolls and bake well tarts

Batting style: open the innings and bat through as anchor

Bowling style: mainly a wicket keeper but medium swing bowler

Interesting fact about your cricket: at the club I played all my cricket at before I moved from Kent only player to have scored over 10000 runs plus take 250 wickets but I played every game at every opportunity from the age of 14 to 30

[FattusCattus]

32!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[ppccopener]

Name: Carlo/Carlos/the jackal/skips/kips(short for 'skips')/mr miagee (what? I don't know who this is). I get called all sorts and I don't care.
Highest score: 128 n.o. League

Best bowling 5-44, about 25 years ago off spin most caught deep square leg

Teams played for : 1sts,2nds now likely to be in the 3rds(or stiffs).

Favourite bat: now this is tricky....m and h original that lasted about 5 years(yes an old model), early salix pod, Newbery Uzi...prob the m and h.

Best food at teas:2 years ago at Shepperton CC. Hot sausage and onion sandwiches and much much more.I clocked the tea early doors and declared I'm batting 11 and won't be fielding.Hands down the best tea ever.

Bowling style: offies or net bowling total trundle. I do have over 250 wickets thou back-in-the-day when bits weren't falling off my body.
Batting style:traditional opener trying to be more expansive.kindly referred to as the best technical batsman in the club by my mates and too slow by those that don't like me 
Interesting fact about my cricket:in 1995 I broke the club record for total runs in a season by 1 run from my bestest mate.That record still stands today(club formed 1934-I think!).
Best advice received on the field:facing Carlos Remy who played against us on a Saturday and for Sussex the next week:Me to my partner ' we are 5 for no wicket after 10 overs, I can see it pitch and it's on me before I can move,do I get in line or out of line?' My opening partner:' don't be an idiot,get in line and you will get killed,There's another game next week'

There is always another game 

Footnote:interesting non cricket fact. if you watch the Apprentice on TV the is a cafe the losers go to,because I have the same surname as the people that own that cafe I am usually asked if I am related to them.Im totally bored of answering whether I am related to them or not. I don't watch the Apprentice.

[WalkingWicket37]

@ppccopener isn't the stiffs normally the 2s (or has my whole club been getting that wrong for years?)

And are you related to the people who own the cafe that the losing team go to on The Apprentice?

[Mattyhill1039]

Name : Matt

Age : 29

Top score : 51

Best figures 0 - 18 off 2 overs only 2 overs iv ever bowled as im a keeper

Team played for(1s,2s,3s etc): cookhill 2nds when I was 16 -17 then astwood bank 5ths when I was 28 ( started playing again halfway through last season) with a sneaky game in the seconds when they were short at the end of last season!

Favourite bat you've ever had: my H4L tempo grade 2

Best food to have at tea: salad the more cucumber the better!

Batting style: aggressive but can hold an end up if necessary

Bowling style: under arm to a slip next to me! In the nets im king of the throw down feel that helps the other batsmen more than finding my ball!

Interesting fact about your cricket: hadnt played for 10 years and won an award for best batting average in my team last season from 8 game with 33!

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[ppccopener]

@ppccopener isn't the stiffs normally the 2s (or has my whole club been getting that wrong for years?)

And are you related to the people who own the cafe that the losing team go to on The Apprentice?

Ah....well it depends how many sides you run.we run 4 leagues sides

Some of the fours got only knows where they come from. I've never met half of them but I do know some of them field like a set of wardrobes
And yes I am

Haha 

[joeljonno]

Name : Joel
Age : 30-odd
Top score : 125 in a friendly, 98 in the league
Best figures 4-15 (had figures of 3 overs, 3 maidens, no runs, four wickets) in a cup game.
Team played for(1s,2s,3s etc): 2nd team captain
Favourite bat you've ever had: Bradbury Sterling, handmade, one of the first ones in the UK.
Best food to have at teas: turning cheese sandwiches into chip butties and you can't beat a scone with jam and cream.
Batting style: non-descript. Not correct enough for elegance, not a good enough eye for a slogger. Mediocre.
Bowling style: Very slow turing leggies these days. Rolled out of the fingers.
Interesting fact about your cricket: Have a club record stand of 171* for the 9th wicket (went in to bat at 22-8).

[ItsJustCricket]

Name : Chris

Age : 20

Top score : 147*,

Best Figures - 6-1

Team played for - Hampstead CC 1st XI, Middlesex ECB Prem. Also did time on Middlesex Academy.

Favourite bat you've ever had: My Gray Nicolls bats have all been monsters. Special cupboard helps I suppose! Hard to choose between my F18 and Powerbow Gen X! Although for shape, it has to be the Newbery Platinum (I helped design it so you'd think so!)

Best food to have at teas: I'm all for something balanced. Need your quick release energy stuff, so a couple of jaffa cakes or something, then some bananas for potassium etc, along with some complex and simple carbs and proteins. I guess something like a skinless breast of chicken, brown rice, salad, banana would do the trick. 

Batting Style: Inventive and aggressive. I like my reverse dogs, paddles, etc.

Bowling style: Slow Left Arm.

Interesting fact about your cricket: Only ever played one Second XI game before playing for the First XI at age 16 at Hampstead. Went straight into First XI at age 14 in Birmingham Premier League. Lucky that skippers put some faith in me I think!

[WalkingWicket37]

Best food to have at teas: I'm all for something balanced. Need your quick release energy stuff, so a couple of jaffa cakes or something, then some bananas for potassium etc, along with some complex and simple carbs and proteins. I guess something like a skinless breast of chicken, brown rice, salad, banana would do the trick. 

Batting Style: Inventive and aggressive. I like my reverse dogs, paddles, etc.

On the teas you thought far too much about that, if it looks edible get it down your neck!
That said I don't think I've ever seen skinless chicken breasts or brown rice at any tea when I've been playing. The closest we get is chicken nuggets 

What's a reverse dog? Is that where you get on all fours in front of your "batting partner", then put your "bat handle" between your legs in order to "play your shot"? Or am I thinking of something else...

[play-yourself-in]

Name - Rich/Ports

Age - 36

Top score - 67

Best bowling - 4-12

Team played for - the lowest one the club has

Fav bat - Newbury GT 5 star

Best teas - coronation chicken sandwiches, chicken nuggets and ice lollies.

Batting style - on the stumps block, off the stumps smash it.

Bowling style - take a few steps and see what comes out.

Interesting fact - qualified umpire, I once smashed my captins car windscreen with a six.

[Twelfth Man]

Name : Ryan

Age : 21

Top score : 127*

Best figures 6-28

Team played for: Played 1's since 15, a few years minor county junior stuff and three seasons in Australia.

Favourite bat you've ever had: TLB sample or Warsop Marlin..
Best food to have at teas: Will never understand how some clubs forget to have ham sandwiches! I'm a sucker for chocolate cake..

Batting style: boring traditional? 

Bowling style: left arm seamers, forever trying to learn an inswinger.

Interesting fact about your cricket: Have managed to avoid winter three years in a row by playing cricket in Australia. Great life experience to go with it!

[aussie.kooky]

Name : Matthew

Age : 34

Top Score : 107

Best Figures : 3/11

Team played for :  Bayswater Morley (WACA 4th Grade) , Kukerin Cricket Club (WA Country)

Favourite Bat : GM Octane Original LE

Best food at teas : Jam and Scones

Batting Style : Inventive

Bowling Style : Right arm off spin

Interesting Fact : Qualified Level 2 umpire.

[Eliotroberts]

Footnote:interesting non cricket fact. if you watch the Apprentice on TV the is a cafe the losers go to,because I have the same surname as the people that own that cafe I am usually asked if I am related to them.Im totally bored of answering whether I am related to them or not. I don't watch the Apprentice.

Question is buddy. Are you related to them ?


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[ppccopener]

Question is buddy. Are you related to them ?


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Haha! Yes i am related to them.I think they are enjoying a bit of fame from the TV,people do actually go in there just because of the show.
I can tell you its as un glamourous as it appears on the telly