Joined the club in the mid-nineties as a skinny young medium-pacer (his wife has played netball here for longer still). He is now neither skinny, nor young, nor a medium-pacer, and now - rather to his surprise - finds himself opening the batting. A founder-member of the Grumpy Old Men squad, and also occasionally plays for the Old As bridge team, where age and weight are less of a handicap than on the cricket pitch.