Today's Meet the Team is one of the founder members of the SpecialEffect Tigers CC, Cap'n Chris Grain. Superb bat, great bloke and a young Nigel Havers if ever there was one. Take it away, Chris ...
When were you born, Chris? 20th February 1974
Where? Oxford
What do you do for a living? I'm a local Government grunt
What do you do cricket-wise? RHB, SRA (non-spinning leggies)
Your favourite cricket team? Northants
Who's your favourite ever cricketer? Allan Lamb
What's your earliest cricketing memory? Playing in my back garden and hitting an unbeaten double century aged 4
What's the best ground you've ever played at? New Road, Worcester
And the worst ground? Finstock Playing Field in the early/mid eighties. This was a fast, bumpy and unpredictable track. With Baz Floyd baring down on you (with 6 slips and 2 gulleys) it was like Sabina Park for kids. Scary, and where I learned about sledging!
Where's your favourite fielding position? It used to be gully/cover. Now I’m nearly 40 it’s slip…
What's your favourite other sport? Football
Are you any good at it? Magnificent
What sport do you find most boring? I really HATE tennis
Who's your all-time sporing hero? Very difficult, probably Muhammad Ali or Ray Parlour. Parlour edges it for all round greatness.
What's the strangest or funniest thing you've ever seen on a cricket pitch? The Tigers trying to take a catch…
You can have any four people, past or present, around for dinner. Who would they be and why? Bill Hicks, Joe Strummer, Willie Nelson and David Cameron
Bill to provide the laughs, Joe to provide music and tales of punk, Willie to bring his guitar and weed while Cameron’s face can serve as an everlasting punchbag.
You have £100 to spend. What do you buy? A new mask for John Grain
Thanks Chris.
You did forget a little bit of your childhood on Finstock Playing Field there though mate. It was the bit where Baz Floyd and your brother John were always very kind to younger cricketers in the village ... bowling slow underarm dolly drops and always ready to offer some gentle encouragement to increase their confidence when batting. That sort of thing. It was many years ago and you're forgiven for not remembering.
Cheers mate!
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