Featured Brave

We'll move up a grade (from last seasons teams) with the next  Featured Brave. This time we have none other than...

Anthony Smith

Years at Baden Powell:

20+

Nickname

To my face: Iceman or Smite

Behind my back: i have never caught all or it but I know it includes the words "Massive" and "Flog" 

Occupation

Finance

Previous Clubs

Long Island CC under 12's
Brighton CCCC 

Games Played

200+

Batting

Text book Style that any aspiring young player should follow.

Secret to success has been to keep it simple and only have two options for each ball, either:

French Cricket Defence or Uncontrolled aggression

Batting Average

Mid 20's

Highest Score

89 vs Langwarrin 4th's late 90's

Bowling Style

Rope a dope

Bowling Average

Mid teens

Best Bowling

8/27 vs. Main Ridge 2nds (14 wickets for the match) (2010/11)

Your role in the team

Calming Influence
Dispute resolution
Mentor
Opposition Club relations officer
Frozen Pizza for tea provider

Club Awards

Not possible to list them all in the 1000 character limit allowance for this question

Memory of your 1st Game

Played my first game in the 6's in "I" grade. We had the pleasure of venturing to Pat Rollo reserve to play Pines. Fair too say it was not in those days the salubrious venue it has now become. One of my new shoes purchased for the big occasion was punctured when I stood on a broken beer bottle that was hidden in the tyre marks generously left in abstract patterns by trail bike artiste's across the breadth of the arena.

I batted at 5 and was in by the end of the second over of the day and out not much later. We got beaten badly ( and lost the cricket as well) but I got a another bat in the second innings and made 50* which gave me some confidence that I was capable of performing to the dizzy heights required in "I" grade. 5 games later the seemingly endless weeks of toil and hard yakka were rewarded when the fairy-tale was complete and we had won the flag in my 6th game for the club.

Career highlights

Winning three premierships. 6's 3's 1's

I am too humble to actually say I picked up and carried 10 passengers to victory in each flag, so I will just let the engravings on the MOTM medals speak for themselves.

Funniest memory at the club

Rex Kyte's life lessons freely handed out each Saturday, should be a compulsory Y12 subject.

Thursday Night's in clubrooms pre-loading pre pub sessions ( Joker Poker, Spin the Wheel, Closest to the wall)

All of Trent Verhagen's money dare's

Sammy "Mullet" and "Carts" "intellectual" battles

Nobby's umpiring

Chuck Norris's post game umpires schmoozing routine

Val saying he will have "just one more over"