113 John Acland-Hood
Right-Arm
Medium
Batting
head-gear: Cap/None 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
Right-Hand Bat
M
I
NO
R
HS
AVE
CT
WK CT
ST
122
115
12
3657
131
35.50
44
6
2
O
M
R
W
AVE
80.2
10
409
26
15.73
Tours: 23
Tortoiseless Trophy: 2004
Tour Manager: 2001
Fixture Secretary: 2008-2009
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).
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