Today's Meet the Team feature takes a look at the bizarre recollections and musings of Gav Turner. One of my favourite people. Yes, that's him in the photo looking like he should be in a Direct Line TV advertisement. Nice one Gavvers ... good look mate.
Gav joins the Tigers from Oxfam CC along with the irrepressible Chris Ellis and Ben McPherson. Three top chaps!
Okay Gav, let's hear all about it then mate ...
Name: Gav Turner
Date of Birth: 23/06/1974
Where were you born? Enfield (he says in a broad north-east accent)
How do you earn a living? I do important work for charidee mate
What do you do cricket-wise? RHB, RM
Your favourite cricket team? Essex
Favourite ever cricketer? David Boon
Earliest cricketing memory? Botham's Ashes
What's the best and worst cricket grounds you've ever played at? Charlbury is the best. The worst was some s**thole up in the North-East
Do you have a favourite fielding position? No
What's your favourite other sport? Football ... I support Chelsea
Are you any good at it? No (bloggers comment: that's a lie. I've played against Gav many times and he's excellent)
Which sport do you find most boring? Anything embraced by Americans (except Ice Hockey fights)
Who's your all-time sporting hero? Randy Couture
Who? Randy Couture. He's a martial arts legend.
What's the strangest or funniest thing you've ever seen on a cricket field?
Playing with me Dad (sic). He dived to stop a ball with matches in his pocket – set his trousers on fire and burnt his balls.
You can have four people to dinner, past or present, who would they be and why?
Roger Waters: best political commentator of 20th century
Randy Couture: legend of the MMA scene
Joe Bonamassa: Favourite blues guitarist
Nye Bevan: NHS founder
You have £100 to spend. What do you buy? You know meeeeeeee ... I'd buy nice things
Yes, thanks Elton Turner. Well, that's Gav.
Can I also just alert you Tigers to the fact that Gav suffers from some kind of condition that distorts his memory.
At some point he'll try and tell you that, when we worked together, I regularly taunted him, humiliated him in front of colleagues and gave him menial tasks such as tidying my desk, making my tea and fetching bacon rolls from the Queen of Hearts bakery. Please don't re-enforce these delusions by agreeing with him. Just punch him in the arm and tell him to stop being such a big cry-baby. That always did the trick for me.
Cheers Gav. You're a good 'un mate!
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