Player Profiles

Here are the player profiles from the Bridgnorth Cricket Club Squad of 2009. Please send your profiles, or updates to existing ones, to webmaster@bridgnorthcricketclub.co.uk, using the headings used below, plus any extra ones you think of.

Freddie Broad

DOB: 25 April 1992
Bat: Right-Hand
Bowl: Right Arm Stuff
Fielding Position: a bit of fun at slip
Highest Score: 45 v Bomere Heath (3rd XI - 2009)
Best Bowling: 4-32 v Bomere Heath (3rd XI - 2009)

Nicknames: Elvis
Food: Chinese
Drink: Alcoholic - Corona and Lime; Non-Alcoholic - Dr Pepper
Film: Happy Gilmore
TV: Top Gear

Steven Caine

DOB: 25 August 1962
Bat: Right-Hand
Bowl: Right Arm Offspin
Fielding Position: fairly close (cos I can't reach!)
Highest Score: 49 v Edgmond
Best Bowling: 9-? v ?

Nicknames: Kip, Badger Cub
Food: Indian
Drink: Who's buying?!
Film: Apocalypse Now
TV: The Apprentice

Andrew Carson

DOB: 1 September 1986
Bat: Left-Hand
Bowl: Left Arm
Fielding Position: Anywhere
Highest Score: 94* v Wednesbury (Sunday 1st XI, Presidents Day 2008)
Best Bowling: 4-50 v Worfield (maybe...!)

Nicknames: Jocky, Strap, Carss, Jock
Food: Anything but Lasagne
Drink: Fosters
Film: Anchorman
TV: Heroes

Glenn Edwards

DOB: 13 July 1975
Bat: Right-Hand Opener
Bowl: Right-Arm Offspin
Fielding Position: Covers
Highest Score: 132 v Church Aston
Best Bowling: 5-21 v Penn

Nicknames: Sofa, Cheeks, Sipper, Sneekly, Glenny, Smoochy
Food: Anything but Lasagne
Drink: Lager
Film: Young Guns
TV: Spooks

Rob Hughes

DOB: 4 April 1991
Bat: Right-Hand
Bowl: Left-Arm Dibble
Fielding Position: Wicketkeeper
Highest Score: 111 v Cannock (Sunday 2nd XI, 2007)
Best Bowling: 2-22 v Walsall (Sunday 1st XI, 2007)

Nicknames: Ging, Peanut, Taff
Food: Good Old Roast
Drink: JD
Film: Die Hard
TV: Neighbours

Greg Lewis

DOB: 25 April 1991
Bat: Right-Hand Opener
Bowl: Right-Arm Medium
Fielding Position: Anywhere and Everywhere
Highest Score: 119 v Worcestershire U16s
Best Bowling: 4-20 v Shifnal 2nds

Nicknames: Shandy, Lager Top, Lulu
Food: Roast
Drink: Cider
Film: 2 Fast 2 Furious
TV: The Simpsons

Matt Martin

DOB: 16 November 1990
Bat: Right-Hand
Bowl: Right-Arm Medium
Fielding Position: Covers
Highest Score: 115* v Barnt Green (2nd XI, 2008)
Best Bowling: 4-22 v Walsall (Sunday 1st XI, 2008)

Nicknames: Large, Matty, Fat, Fatty Shartin
Food: Anything
Drink: Alcohol
Film: Pirates of the Caribbean (the first one)
TV: The Simpsons

Eddie Mullard

DOB: 17 January 1974
Bat: Left-Hand Blocker
Bowl: Right-arm hardly-reaches-but-swings-a-bit
Fielding Position: Wherever the skipper puts me, preferably close
Highest Score: 124 v Pelsall
Best Bowling: 5-11 v Kenilworth Wardens (beat them all for pace... or lack of!)

Nicknames: Ed, Yed, Mull, Scull, Scully, The Compromiser, King Ed, Arthur...
Food: Pretty much everything
Drink: Anything EXCEPT Lager
Film: Comedies
TV: Anything but soaps and 'lifestyle' programmes

Gareth Mumford

DOB: 18 June 1982
Bat: Right-hand
Bowl: Right-arm offspin
Fielding Position: Wicketkeeper
Highest Score: 149 v Wheaton Aston
Best Bowling: 5-25 v Bloxwich

Nicknames: Pookie, Gaz, Gar
Food: Cheese
Drink: Not fussy
Film: Star Wars
TV: Gavin & Stacey

Kieran Osborne

DOB: 9 September 1993
Bat: Right-hand
Bowl: Right-arm medium
Fielding Position: Anywhere
Highest Score: 112 v Hales (3rd XI - 2009)
Best Bowling: Dunno!

Nicknames: Oz, Ozzer, Ozzy
Food: Anything
Drink: Anything Un-Alcoholic
Film: Simpsons - The Movie
TV: Simpsons

Simon Pitt

DOB: 6 June 1985
Bat: Right-hand no idea
Bowl: Right-arm medium fast
Fielding Position: Fine Leg
Highest Score: 30* v Broseley (2nd XI, 2003 - I'll never beat it!)
Best Bowling: 5-53 v Sutton Coldfield (2nd XI, 2006 - 7-for is on for this year)

Nicknames: Spitty, Spit, Spindles, R Pins
Food: Anything cooked by my mother
Drink: Stella Artois (get it at the club)
Film: Quadrophinia
TV: Only Fools and Horses

Ben Taylor

DOB: 16 March 1994
Bat: Right-hand
Bowl: Right-arm anything
Fielding Position: Wicketkeeper
Highest Score: 36 v Shifnal U13s
Best Bowling: n/a

Nicknames: Tubbs
Food: Curry
Drink: Coke
Film: Texas Chainsaw Massacre
TV: Simpsons

Dan Taylor

DOB: 16 March 1994
Bat: Right-hand
Bowl: Right-arm medium
Fielding Position: Anywhere
Highest Score: 73* v Worfield (2008)
Best Bowling: 4-16 v The Barmy Army!

Nicknames: Dave Taylor
Food: Meatballs
Drink: J2O
Film: The Longest Yard
TV: Friends

Alex Thomas

DOB: 18 May 1987
Bat: Right-hand tailender
Bowl: Right-arm seamer
Fielding Position: Wherever told to go... usually hidden!
Highest Score: 11 v Worfield (Sunday 2nd XI, 2008)
Best Bowling: 5-37 v Worfield (Sunday 2nd XI, 2007)

Nicknames: Ails, Sparky, Monty, Quentin, Pigeon
Food: Steak
Drink: Magners, Strongbow
Film: Anchorman
TV: Top Gear, Two and a Half Men, Mock the Week

Peter Thompson

DOB: 26 September 1982
Bat: Right-hand
Bowl: Right-arm medium
Fielding Position: Covers
Highest Score: 150* v Attock (1st XI, 2007)
Best Bowling: 7-30 v Wightwick

Nicknames: Thomo, Doctor
Food: Table Finisher
Drink: Lager
Film: Rocky
TV: Sky Sports

Cam Wallis

DOB: 4th January 1994
Bat: Right-hand
Bowl: Right-arm medium
Fielding Position: Square Leg
Highest Score: 38* v Market Drayton (Saturday 3rd XI - 2009)-
Best Bowling: 5-30 v Guilsfield (Saturday 3rd XI - 2009)

Nicknames: Braveheart
Food: Full English
Drink: Anything
Film: Forest Gump, Armageddon
TV: Friends

Jono Whitney

DOB: 7 April 1985
Bat: Right-hand opener
Bowl: Right-arm medium swingers
Fielding Position: Where I'm told
Highest Score: 180 v Aldridge (Sunday 1st XI), 164 v Devon (Shropshire)
Best Bowling: 5-? v Cheshire (Shropshire)

Favourite Cricketer: Andrew Flintoff
Nicknames: Bonehead, JJ, Auschwitz
Food: Phad Thai
Drink: Strongbow
Film: Anchorman
TV: Two and a Half Men, Family Guy, Prison Break

Sam Whitney

DOB: 19th May 1989
Bat: Right-hand
Bowl: Right-arm legspin
Fielding Position: Anywhere
Highest Score: 150* (Sunday 2nd XI)
Best Bowling: 7-50 v Redditch 2nds

Nicknames: Bosshogg, Sambo, Whitters, Orlando Bloom, David Beckham
Food: All food except healthy stuff
Drink: Frosty Jacks
Film: High School Musical 3
TV: One Tree Hill, Prison Break