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Viv's memorable entrance at Norton St Phillip this year; out at Witham Friary; muddied but unbowed, left; in action in sri lanka
Thursday, August 28, 2008
The final revelations this season from our LSSC cricket squad - Andy Jones confesses which Carry On star he'd like to play White Viv in the story of his life...
Profile No1: Gary "Speedtwin" Jones
Profile No2 : Paul Pearce
Profile No3: James Whitworth
Profile No4: Johnny Quinn
Profile No5: Trevor Mayhew
Profile No6: Paul Wathan
Profile No7: Pete Berkeley
Name : Andy Jones
Nickname : White Viv
Date of Birth : August 31, 1954
Place of Birth : Guildford, Surrey
Squad Number: 111 (unlucky for some cricketers ... me mainly!)
LSCC Debut: ( to be supplied by DT
Career Averages / Best Batting / Bowling etc: ( to be supplied by DT )
Football Team(s) Supported: Aldershot Town (since 1967). My "Premiership team" (!) is Southampton.
Cricket Team(s) Supported: Glamorgan (my dad was a keen fan and took me to see them several times from when I was eight). Have been a member at Essex since moving to near Colchester in 2005.
Who is your favourite cricketer / sports star: Adam Gilchrist / Matt Le Tissier
Favourite Food: Kedgeree, macaroni cheese and mashed potatoes
Favourite Drinks: Champagne, tea, Timothy Taylor Landlord and New Zealand sauvignon blanc
Favourite Film / TV etc: Cinema Paradiso / The Prisoner
Favourite Band / Singer: Small Faces/Bruce Springsteen/Bjork
Best Country Visited: Vietnam
Best Sporting Moment: Aldershot's “David versus Goliath” 1-0 win at Molyneux (3-0 on aggregate) in the second leg of the Division Four play-off final (before they were played at Wembley). It sent the Shots into Division Three and Wolves into the bottom division.
Best Individual LSSC Sporting Moment : 1. A diving catch with the fingertips of my left hand at gully off DT's bowling (still not sure how I did it). It was at Church Street, Edmonton, against Derby (I think). 2. Scoring 67 against Ex-Blues in 2005 to bring up my 1,000 runs for LSCC
Your most embarrassing cricket moment: Limping off at Chapmanslade in 2003 to be replaced by a substitute fielder, who was three times faster and more agile than me. It was only after the game that I found out he had an artificial leg.
Worst Sporting Moment: Snapping my cruciate ligament playing football in 1967 when I was 12 - wrecking my chances of becoming the first Aldershot player to captain England.
Worst LSSC Sporting Moment: Golden duck on the first ball of the match at Witham Friary with my son watching his first ever cricket match.
Best Champagne Moment Witnessed: Pete Berkeley felling Gary Speedtwin with a return throw to the stumps as Gary was getting up from an attempted diving stop. The memory still makes me laugh out loud
Best Cricket Tea Eaten: I am usually too focussed on the game to notice, but Witham Friary takes some beating.
Worst ever London Saints 4x400m Relay Squad: Me, Kumar, Martyn Brockwell and dear old Marcus Kinsella (who, ironically, is still on the run).
Who, in our opponents, is your nemesis: As my body gradually falls apart it’s got to be Old Father Time. Also, I'm always relieved when West XI’s Chris (“I’ve got your number”) is on his way back to the pavilion.
Most Memorable Cricket Ball witnessed: Kasprowicz c Geraint Jones b Flintoff to win the second 2005 Ashes Test to beat the Aussies by three runs.
Person you would most like to be marooned on an island with (apart from family): Agnetha Faltskog (the blonde from Abba), although my long-held fantasy was somewhat ruined recently when Steve Keenan casually mentioned that he had cupped her buttocks in his hands during a slow dance in the Seventies. If you want to know more details ask Mr Keenan as it pains me too much to retell it here.
Person you would least like to be marooned on an island with: Can't decide between Margaret Thatcher, Robert Mugabe or Gary Cronin.
If you were an animal what would you be: Lions have a good life. Nobody messes with you, you sleep most of the day, look pretty cool and have a harem of females who also bring food to you.
If you weren’t a famous LSSC Cricketer what would you be: A painter (oils on canvas, as opposed to Dulux on windowsills).
Who would play you as lead role in the story of your life: Charles Hawtrey
What keeps you relaxed: Not much these days but it used to be sex and yoga.
Little known facts about yourself: I still own a 1954 Ford Popular which I bought for £20 in 1970. I have an autograph collection which has signatures of more than 3,000 footballers and cricketers from the Sixties and the Seventies and is said to be worth a five-figure sum.
