84     Dan Park

 
Right-Hand Bat
M   I   R    NO   HS     AVG    C(WK/out)
2   1   6     0   6       6.00       0/0

Right-Arm Medium
W     R       O    M       AVG      
1     51   8.0   0     51.00  

Batting head-gear: None

Tours: 0


Debut: 24.06.1989  House: Reckitt  At LP: 1983-1988

No nonsense please. Bish bash bosh.

It's good to see Dan back this season, and quickly doubling his appearances. His first 2 appearances for the club were seperated by 16 years and yielded the false batting and bowling averages of 6.00 and 51.00 respectively. His 1st appearance was in 1989, a year after leaving the school. His second was a call up in 2005 for the Brewers Cup side that went up against 10 Old Tauntonians + 1 from Somerset IIs.

What happened in those intervening 16 years ? Was he farming alpacas in the Andean foothills ? Searching for the true source of the Amazon ? Cage fighting in the back streets of Jakarta ? Offer him a large bottle of single malt and a long night in a highland bothy, and he'll, more than likely, tell you.

Anyway, in two games this season he has already gone some way to putting his cricketing record straight with two powerful 40s and a clutch of wickets with his heavy medium pace. His belligerent batting and infectious joie de vivre are a very welcome, and hard to miss addition to the OLCC landscape. RCNP



desert island discs
1) Summer of '69 - Bryan Adams
2) Drops of Jupiter - Train
3) The Messiah - Handel
4) Dood Looks Like a Lady - Aerosmith
5) Nellie The Elephant - The Toy Dolls
6) Good Times, Bad Times - Led Zeppelin
7) Honey Dripper - Jools Holland
8) Eye Level - The Simon Park Orchestra

Book: Big Yin - Biography of Billy Connelly

Luxury Item: Toothpaste

Three films
1) Highlander
2) Shawshank Redemption
3) Debbie Does Dallas


Favourite Graham Carter nick-name: Arthur

Cheese or Chocolate: Chocolate
Beer or Wine: Beer on its own - wine with food
Tea or Coffee: Tea first thing in the morning coffee from then on
Boys or Girls: Ladies
Greenland or Ibiza: Greenland - best salmon fishing in the world and no shell suits!
Wet Shave or Dry Shave: Wet


W.G. or Bradman: W.G.
Botham or Sobers: Beefy
Pietersen or Boycott: KP
Marshall or McGrath: Marshall
Read or Jones: Jones
Warne or Murali: Shane
Hair or Bowden: Hair


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