66     Dayalan Doraisamy

Right-Hand Bat

M	I	NO	R	HS	AVE	CT	WK CT	ST
116	102	11	1958	109	21.52	16	0	0

Right-Arm Seam and Wrist Spin

O	M	R	W	AVE
662.5	67	2799	103	27.17

Batting head-gear: Helmet

Tours: 17


Debut: 18.05.1986  House: School  At LP: 1979-1985

Schoolboy prodigy turned OLCC regular. Dayalan "Dilly" Doraisamy is a very versatile cricketer, except when fielding. A very steady batsman who has momentary lapses of aggression. Favourite shots: the square cut and the pick up shot over mid-on which is often launched when everyone is least expecting it. It's fun to watch Dilly batting, particular when his partner is Tom Carter. They were together for the Club's 5th highest partnership of 189 against Incogniti in 2005.

His bowling at school was quite quick and finger threatening. He still bowls seam up on occasion but more often bowls well controlled leg-spin.

Over a week-end in the Loire Valley he dropped the easiest dolly in OLCC history, and later on took the most blinding slip catch (in OLCC history), high to his left. Unfortunately the batsman pretended he hadn't nicked it and the umpire was non-committal. RCNP


desert island discs
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*None, as I prefer silence.

Book: no answer

Luxury Item: none

Three films
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*Don't really watch any.

Favourite Graham Carter nick-name: G-Spot

Cheese or Chocolate: Chocolate
Beer or Wine: Wine
Tea or Coffee: Coffee
Boys or Girls: Girls
Greenland or Ibiza: Greenland
Wet Shave or Dry Shave: Wet

W.G. or Bradman: Bradman
Botham or Sobers: Sobers
Pietersen or Boycott: neither
Marshall or McGrath: Marshall
Read or Jones: Neither
Warne or Murali: Warne
Hair or Bowden: Neither


For Room 101...
1) Baseball Style Cricket Gear
2) Whaling Ships
3) Poachers