113     John Acland-Hood

 
Right-Hand Bat
M      I       R       NO     HS     AVG    C(WK/out)     stumpings
83   80   2587   7     131   35.44       5/30            2

Right-Arm Medium
W    R         O     M    AVG      
6   127   22.4   1   21.17  

Batting head-gear: Cap/None

Tours: 15
Tortoiseless Trophy: 2004
Tour Manager: 2001


Debut: 18.05.1997  House: School  At LP: 1992-1997

They say that hard graft is the key to getting on in one's life and career, but that is very obviously yet another of those tired old 20th century ideas (as espoused by the likes of the President) that went out at the end of the old millennium (31 December 1999). As every Old Leightonian knows, the real secret to success is to cosy up to people with power, influence or a magnificent pile in the country - Somerset, for example - or even better, all three. Fortunately for OLCC members, in John Acland-Hood we have just the man on whom we can bestow sycophantic platitudes in the hope of currying favour with the upper classes. Unfortunately for OLCC members, it won't guarantee you a knighthood, or even a night with Hood (though there's no harm in trying).
Ackers' aristocratic upbringing provides much for the OLCC banter lexicon, especially when it manifests itself in his withering 'don't-you-know-who-I-am' glare at pimply West Country youths who have the temerity to appeal when he is batting. And batting is what John does best: he loves getting runs, and preferably lots of them. Many are made through his superbly controlled trademark pull shot through midwicket (which is incidentally a stroke that doubles as his golf swing). He already has five hundreds for the club - second only to Mickey Moss - and in time he is likely to claim all the club batting records worth having. Oh and he bowls occasionally too, and has somehow taken a few notable wickets with his seam-up wobblers. CCS

desert island discs
1) Babe, I'm Gonna Leave You - Led Zeppelin
2) Lithium - Nirvana
3) The Shane Warne Song - Kevin Bloody Wilson
4) Supercalafragelisticexpialadocious
5) Never mind the Bullocks - Eres the Wurzels
6) The Avalanches - Frontier Psychiatrist
7) The Laughing Gnome - David Bowie
8) Joline - The Source

Book: Catch 22 - Joseph Heller

Luxury Item: Pants

Three films
1) Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back
2) Holy Grail
3) Lagaan


Favourite Graham Carter nick-name: Dirty

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


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


For Room 101...
1) Football
2) Rich people who think they pay too much tax
3) R&B Music