Player Profile  -  Julian Sakowski

Note how Julian circumspectly allows the potentially controversial questions to go through to the 'keeper...

 
Nickname:   Sak or Saka
Years at MOCCC:   2
Best batting:   76
Best bowling:   7/21
Favourite fielding position:   Gully
Pre-match routine:   Full warm-up for an old and aching body
After-match routine:   A couple of beers and plenty of r & r
Favourite tea-break indulgence:   Scones with strawberry jam & cream, and a cup of tea
What makes the perfect cordial?   Lemon
Most under-rated player at MOCCC:   Simon Fleming and Anthony McIntosh
Loves batting with:   Anthony McIntosh (i.e. 2004/05 Grand Final)
Player you dread facing in the nets:   Any quick bowler on artificial turf is difficult
Teammate most likely to adjudge you LBW:   N/A
Favourite saying in the field:   Bowlers - bowl line and length; batsmen - play each ball on its merits. Cricket is a great leveller
Best sledge ever heard and/or used yourself:   Asking younger players if they've ever seen a grown man naked, whether they hang around the gymnasium late at night etc.
Most appropriate personal sponsor:   Sorbent - I enjoy cleaning up the tail
What would you call your cricketing autobiography?   The Long Haul, which would describe 30+ years of playing from schoolboy, junior state representative teams, and in the more recent past, for CBC Old Collegians in Adelaide and MOCCC
Would never lend your box to:   Anyone at MOCCC who might ask!
Unusual items in your kit:   My first bat, a Gray-Nicolls scoop, which is no longer any good, but I can't bear to throw out. I'm a bit of a hoarder - I still have ABC cricket books, Football Records and comic books from 30+ years ago!
Favourite TV show:   Football in the winter, cricket in the summer, and any major sporting event in between. Other than sport, I usually watch 24 and Survivor. I'm also pretty partial to old westerns on Fox Classics
Dream guests at dinner:   Matt Hayden (worked hard to get to the top after initial failure and then dominated), Neale Daniher (overcame injury/adversity, The Reverend and very funny), David Hayes (best horse trainer in the country having made it internationally - I would love to train a racehorse one day), Patrick Rafter (humble beginnings to world no.1, and a good bloke), and Robert Allenby (hard work does pay off)
Funniest thing seen on a cricket field:   Former teammate at Adelaide University CC having a yawn and a leak at fine leg
Ambitions for this season:   25 wickets, 150 runs and make the finals

 

Questions concocted by Sticksy.

 

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