Player Profiles #5 – Will Shields
Playing role: Motivator and masseuse. Batting style: Depends on the Friday night. Bowling style: Right arm mystery spin. Highest score: 91. Best bowling figures: 7 for 19. Amateur cricketing hero(es): Ankle wrists Bateman, Chris...
Player Profiles #4 – Neil Thurlow
Playing role: Sunday 1st captain. Batting style: Entertaining. Bowling style: Erratic. Highest score: 148 (Derbyshire league: Rosehill vs Brailsford). Best bowling figures: - Amateur cricketing hero: Thom Murray: a younger; better; fitter; more handsome...
Player Profiles #3 – Charlie Simkiss
Playing role: 3rd team captain. Batting style: Solid. Bowling style: Hostile. Highest score: 70 not out vs Nottingham at Colston Bassett in 2000. Best bowling figures: 5 for 14 v Ruddington 2018. Amateur cricketing...
Player Profiles #2 – Sam Randall
Playing role: 4th team captain. Batting style: Flat track bully. Bowling style: Nonsense. Highest score: 128* Sunday 2s v Woodborough 2001. Best bowling figures: Even I don’t bowl myself. Amateur cricketing hero(es): Carl Knight,...
Player Profiles #1 – Steve Allcoat
Playing role: 1st team captain and top order batsman. Batting style: Attacking top order. Bowling style: Wishful! Highest score: 198* (Notts v Leics). 194 (Caythorpe v Radcliffe on Trent). Best bowling figures: - Amateur...
