Simon Gear

Profile	Steadily ageing (like a good red)failed test cricketer. Now turned his hand to Physiotherapy at St Pauls Physio in Birmingham(good plug). A southerner at heart, I came to Brum to learn the trade at B'ham Uni and ended up staying! The "Rest is History" & whats to come is the future!
Nickname(s)	Geary (a truely cricketers nickname)
Year Joined Harborne	1998
Batting	Right handed top order
Bowling	Awesome off-spinner
Keeping	Scratchy but still get asked!
Fielding Favourite Position/Sent most often	Slips. Get very easily bored and distracted if near the avenue, what with all the wildlife
Personal Predictions (Runs, Wickets, Dismissals)	Runs 600-800 league runs Wickets 50-100 league wickets + 70 sun Catches 15 To stay attached throughout the season!
Favourite Opposition Ground (& why)?	Knowle & Dorridge. Nice bunch of people, a good batting track and a great bar! What more do you need?
Best Opposition Teas on the Circuit?	All the truely great venues have let the standards slip, so its a hard one. Have to say that Harbornes last year was well up there!
Best Showers on the Circuit?	At St Pauls Physio! They are proper power showers!
*Who would you be in 'Stars in the Their Eyes'?*	Darius!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
If you were in the Big Brother house which Harborne CC member would you take in with you and why?	Dave 'willow' Williams for the pure comedy value
What is your favourite Cricketing memory?	Sitting in with 20,000 screaming aussies on the grass bank at the Adelaide Oval with my brother for a day-nighter in 98/99. It was amazing!
What is your worst Cricketing moment?	Watching England getting thrashed by the Aussies in every Ashes series I can remember!
Favourites	Eastenders or Coronation Street
	Tendulkar or Lara
	Sausage and Mash or Fish and Chips
	Rugby or Football
Who would you most like to talk to at the bar and why?	Don Bradman to ask him what I can do to get the runs he did?
If you were a Test Player, who would you be and why?	Ricky Ponting, as he is just brilliant to watch when in full flow.
What are your 8 Desert Island Discs, Book and Luxury Item?	Candle in the wind, Elton John Nothing at all, Queen Edit by Claire: I've told Geary he needs to improve the quality of his selection. Maybe spending all that time on the poem addled his brain.
Write a poem.	Harborne CC, the site of many a plight, Promotion, relegation and the odd good fight. The outfield is green and the square is flat, You dont want to be a bowler, just have a good bat! Saturday comes, the birds are a singing, Mups corner is full and the boys are minging. The warm-ups a shambles, the fielding is taxing, Beany is moaning and Lloydy is waxing! The toss is lost and we are batting, Time to don the pads, while the lads are chatting. The first ball comes down as a blur, the second's no clearer, I wish I hadn't agreed to that last beer with Alan Shearer. The inevitable happens, I'm out for a duck, A hundred is missed, I'm all out of luck. For the rest of the innnings my fate is sealed, It's up to me to talk rubbish on and off the field. The bowlers run in all hot and firey, While I stand in the slips and arrange my social diary. They rip through the opposition, uprooting the stumps, Thank goodness for Trevor who rolled in those humps. The game is wrapped up, Harborne are the winners, It's that time of the day when Rob & Howel plan to be sinners. We head to the showers, everyone is shattered, Let's get to the bar and get battered.

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