94     Tom Gillmor

Right-Hand Bat and Wicketkeeper

Right-Arm Stuff Bowler

Batting head-gear: Helmet

Tours: 35
Tortoiseless Trophy: 1997
Tour Manager: 2000,2008,2009
Club Chronicler: 2004-present
Availability Secretary: 2002-present
Brewers Cup Selector: 2000-2006

Debut: 26.06.1993  House: School  At LP: 1988-1995

Where to start ? Swashbuckling middle order batsman. Caribbean off-drives, extravagant pull shots. When Tom's at the wicket you can't look away. Shame it doesn't always last as long as it should. He used to bat with the heaviest bat in the world (official). What weight is the one you use now ?

Famously edged the ball into his face when on 99* ,and had to go to hospital. Finally managed to register the magic 3 figures against a 'varied' bowling attack at Seagry in 2007.

Very capable self-taught wicket keeper, and no doubt, if we allowed him to get out from behind the stumps, might be yet another OLCC dazzling maverick leg-spin bowler.

Most bizarrely, he has never won the Tour Joker Award. RCNP

desert island discs
1) Wrathchild - Iron Maiden
2) Whole Lotta Rosie - AC/DC
3) Letter From An Occupant - The New Pornographers
4) 10538 Overture - ELO feat. Roy Wood
5) Sweet Child O'Mine - Guns 'n' Roses
6) Thank God It's Not Christmas - Sparks
7) Abbey Road Side B Medley - The Beatles
8) Wrong Time Capsule - Deerhoof

Book: The Master & Margarita - Mikhail Bulgakov

Luxury Item: Florentine T-Bone Steak

Three films
1) Spinal Tap
2) The Life of Brian
3) Airplane!


Favourite Graham Carter nick-name: G-Spot

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

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


For Room 101...
1) London House Prices
2) Chelsea Fans
3) Gangsta Rap