My first game of proper cricket would’ve been at the tender age of 9 for St Canices in the Westport primary school cricket comp. Went to the mighty Buller High School made the first XI at the age of 14 years I did enjoy in the latter years the chance to play in the Gillette cup was good.

I made my senior club debut at the age of 12 for the Buller High School side in the senior cIub comp as they were short from time to time at that stage of my cricketing life I was a leg spinner I later became a wicketkeeper and am now a medium pacer.

 I first joined LPWCC this season after sone stern talks from my fellow Buller team mate Andy Duncan but it was something I had wanted to have a crack
at for a while but this year everything fitted into place. 

My debut for LPWCC was a dream start really against Sydenham took 5-22 I have no idea how really it was my first game back bowling after a year out with injury so it was a good feeling.
I have my level 1 coaching cert and passed UE but decided to help the family out in the family owned business instead of going to Lincoln Uni.

No real career aspirations at the moment I run the local Mitre 10 store with my father, its been in the family for about 80 years so that keeps me pretty busy hopefully next year I will get away and do some more travelling in the UK.

I suppose in closing I would like to thank everyone at the club for making me welcome this season hopefully I can continue to make the trip over the alps in the coming years.

Wazza, Snail, DS, Darryl deadbat, Ganett and the latest edition to the list is Google earth.

Trackside…..its not really a show…..two and a half men.  I was a big Boston legal fan when it was on

Have so many they are hard to list. Galway in Ireland you have to go there if you haven’t been. Munich and Berlin have to love that German Beer!! Melbourne a great City good night life, sport and racing what more could a man want.

Roast Chicken and every meal has to be followed by dessert!

Kokotai Wanderers, Parramatta Eels…..watch anything apart from Motor racing and Synchronised swimming at the olympics

Julia Roberts, Elle Mcpherson, Tom Hanks

Suzanne Paul if you actually count her as a celebrity!!

Sipping on Guiness or Jamesons at any Bar in Galway with Irish music in the background with the Irish girl of my dreams

Wasim Akram, Chris Gayle, Sachin Tendulkar, Mathew Mcmanus

Buller High School Oval

Its hard to narrow it to one maybe Taking 5-60 in the first innings and scoring 106 in the second innings against Canterbury Country in the Hawke Cup two years ago.

Andrew Ellis

Canterbury Country always one of the toughest challenges in Buller’s zone of the Hawke Cup…..have enjoyed playing all the club sides in Christchurch this year

Accidentally throwing my bat after I got out at the South Island primary school cricket tourney in Nelson. I went to whack my pad missed everything by miles I have no idea what I was trying to achieve ended up having to apologise to the tournament director my bat went about 30 metres it wasn’t good.

Its been my first year at the club but the evergreen James Winstanley  I reckon hes still got a good 10 years left in him hes like a good wine getting better every year. Marty Kane, Ryan Mccone, James Brown all very talented cricketers.

Buy all the best players in New Zealand and start up a Kokotai 20/20 team Andrew Duncan would be the captain, Garry Macdonald would be the coach