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Note how Julian circumspectly allows the potentially controversial questions to go through to the 'keeper... |
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| 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 |
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Questions concocted by Sticksy.
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