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Battling various infirmities but rising to the challenge of captaincy, Paul Harman provides an insight into his cricket world |
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| Nicknames: | Harms, Harmsy, Harmo |
| Joined MOCCC: | First played 98/99 after doing it all in tennis except for winning Wimbledon |
| Honours: | Perpetual runner-up in batting and bowling over the past three seasons; Captain 2nd XI 02/03 - 03/04 |
| Best batting: | 75 |
| Best bowling: | 5/16 |
| Favourite fielding position: | Gully |
| Pre-match routine: | Up at 7am, half-hour walk, pack bags, worry about the game for an hour, arrive early and prepare for a John-Kennedy-like address to the players |
| After-match routine: | Back to the club for a catch-up, go home and complain about the day's play with my wife then spend the rest of the night nursing sore back and legs |
| Favourite tea-break indulgence: | Foccacia, Kingston biscuits, ham sandwiches |
| Most under-rated player at MOCCC: | Tie between Ron Murray / Martin Gill. They consistently deliver and give their all |
| Loves batting with: | Peter Ryan/Anthony McIntosh – for no other reason than I have spent most of the last few seasons doing it |
| Would never lend your box to: | Trev – I think everyone would agree here |
| Unusual items in your kit: | Voltaren, Panadeine Forte, Deep Heat, 4 rolls of Elastoplast - these are my saviours each week; lucky red towel which I have had since I was 5 |
| Boyhood idol: | Alan Border, Luke Skywalker (I still wish I could be him) |
| Favourite TV show: | Seinfeld |
| Favourite poster on bedroom wall: | Signed & framed Jason Dunstall jumper (incidentally given to me by Trev) |
| Dream guests at dinner: | My wife, Steve Waugh, Dermott Brereton, Jacques Villeneuve, Bono |
| Funniest thing seen on a cricket field: | In the midst of a winless 2nd XI season I had fired up the players about how we need to get respect. As we walked onto the field, the circus at the Manningham began their show. The players in fits of laughter thought it was appropriate. |
| Ambitions for 2004-05: | Captain second XI to a premiership and win something; score 300 runs and 20 wickets; be described by Pete Ryan as the best player he has seen since Rohan Kanhai |
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Questions concocted by Sticksy.
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