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Player Profiles

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Name: Mike Dunn

Team: 1st Team

Role: Vice Captain/All-Rounder

Nickname: Pie Chucker

Favourite Food: Rohit's Curry

Favourite Drink: Stroh Rum

Favourite Ground: Kew Green

Favourite Quote: ''When in doubt play the Cut'' and ''High Risk, High Reward''

Cricketing Hero: Dave Rundell and Richard Snell

Best League Performance: 10 - 46 vs Chesham 2007

Goal for 2008 Season: Pull some birds at away games for a change!

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Name: Rohit Bajaj

Team: 2nd Team

Role: Left Arm Orthodox Spinner

Nickname: Roy or Bob

Favourite Food: Italian, Indian or Chinese

Favourite Drink: Fosters

Favourite Ground: MCC

Favourite Quote: None

Cricketing Hero: Yuvraj Singh

Best League Performance: 6 - 5 vs Twickenham 2007

Goal for 2008 Season: None

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Name: Ed Knowles

Team: 1st Team

Role: Captain/Middle Order Batsman

Nickname: Grassy

Favourite Food: Anything Italian

Favourite Drink: Fosters/Coke

Favourite Ground: Kew Green and Eddie Fivaz Oval (Durbanville)

Favourite Quote: ''The difference between the possible and the impossible lies in a mans determination''

Best League Performance: 63 vs East Molesey 2007

Cricketing Hero: Hansie Cronje and Shane Warne

Goal for 2008 Season: Guide The Team To a Successful Season!

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Name: Huw George

Team: 2nd Team

Role: Middle Order Batsman/Right Arm Off Spin/Hero

Nickname: Hugely Gorgeous

Favourite Food: Thai

Favourite Drink: Kronenbourg

Favourite Ground: Kew Green

Favourite Quote: ''The forward defensive is just a gay drive''

Best League Performance: The elegant yet brutal 94* against NPL that would've been a maiden ton for the club were it not for the selfish batting of Alex Bishop!

Cricketing Hero: Keith Armistead

Goal for 2008 Season: Get a bowl more often!

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Name: Raj Patel

Team: 2nd Team

Role: Captain/Batsman

Nickname: Papa Patel

Favourite Food: Growlers

Favourite Drink: Pinot Grigio

Favourite Ground: The Mote, Maidstone

Favourite Quote: ''Never interrupt your enemy when he's making a mistake''

Best League Performance: 101* vs North Maidenhead 2005

Cricketing Hero: Kapil Dev

Goal for 2008 Season: To win Division 3B

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Name: Ed Griffin

Team: 1st Team

Role: All - Rounder

Nickname: Duck

Favourite Food: Moist Egg Mayonnaise Sandwich

Favourite Drink: Tea

Favourite Ground: Kew Green for the Church, Houses, Crowd and Graveyard Scones (Not for the Pitch and South Circular)

Favourite Quote: ''Why am I Number 11'' - Dominic Mellor 2007

Best League Performance: 2007 Only win against Thame. Wickets and Winning Runs

Cricketing Hero: None

Goal for 2008 Season: Higher Batting average than Bowling and to score a Ton

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Name: The Robert Tindall

Team: 1st Team

Role: All - Rounder/Legend

Nickname: Bongo's

Favourite Food: Curry

Favourite Drink: Anything Alcoholic

Favourite Ground: Lords

Favourite Quote: ''Do you know how hard it is to drive when you're drunk'' - Bob to a Policeman when pulled over!

Best League Performance: 8 - 98 vs Burnham 2007

Cricketing Hero: Geoffrey Boycott

Goal for 2008 Season: Do a great job running the bar!

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Name: Jason Brotherton

Team: 1st Team

Role: Top Order Batsman

Nickname: JB

Favourite Food: Braai

Favourite Drink: Snakebites

Favourite Ground: Chukker Road in Cape Town and Kew Green

Favourite Quote: ''If it's in the V, It's in the B and C"

Best League Performance: 119 vs NPL Teddington 2007

Cricketing Hero: Devries Basson (Durbanville CC - Cape Town)

Goal for 2008 Season: Be at the crease for a long time and not just a good time!

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Name: Walter Bickley

Team: 4th Team

Role: Left Arm Seamer/Umpire

Nickname: Wally

Favourite Food: Steak

Favourite Drink: Cider

Favourite Ground: Kew Green

Favourite Quote: ''If Im not drunk Im gonna sue the ******* brewery'' - Me when asked by my bird if I was drunk

Best League Performance: 5 - 12

Cricketing Hero: Ian Botham and Phil Tufnell (for different reasons)

Goal for 2008 Season: Become more smug

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Name: Bruce Dunn

Team: N/A

Role: Kew CC Number 1 Fan outside of the UK

Nickname: 1 Dart Dunn or 1 Putt Dunn

Favourite Food: Flames outside Putney Station

Favourite Drink: Any Beer

Favourite Ground: My back Yard (once scored a memorable 276 against Mike Dunn when I was 8)

Favourite Quote: ''Hot women are like parking spots, the good ones are taken and the free ones are handicapped''

Best League Performance: Making 24 Boerewors rolls and having 4 Beers in 6 overs!

Cricketing Hero: Hansie Cronje and Gary Kirsten

Goal for 2008 Season: Get my hands on a Kew CC season ticket and a plane ticket to London!!! COME ON KEW !!!

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Name: Alex Bishop

Team: 3rds and 1sts

Role: Opening Batsman / £10 pound Fielder

Nickname: AB

Favourite Food: Steak

Favourite Drink: Rioja

Favourite Ground: St Just CC

Favourite Quote: "Lads, Those women on the boundary, they're nudeless" - Ali Jaffer (2007) To the team whilst describing two topless sunbathers on the boundary edge''

Best League Performance: 106 vs Eltham for The Ferrets 2007

Cricketing Hero: Graham Thorpe / Shane Warne

Goal for 2008 Season: 5 Tons (league)

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Name: Sushobhan Manandhar

Team: Fighting Ferrets and Sunday XI

Role: Opening Bowler/Right Hand Batsman

Nickname: Sushi

Favourite Food: Momo - Chicken Tandoori

Favourite Drink: Budweiser/Coke

Favourite Ground: Kew Green

Favourite Quote: ''Winners dont do different things,they do things differently"

Best League Performance: Guiding the team home to victory on a rainy day ,more importantly shutting up those sledgers after smacking them over their heads against Ashford

Cricketing Hero: Sachin Tendulkar,Shane Warne, Allan Donald and Glen Mcgrath

Goal for 2008 Season: Contribute more runs with the bat, get more wickets and win the league

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