PROFILE: Sam "Bowie" Richardson

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Friday, 25th March 2005


Committee member and A-Grade bowler


Statistics

Season 2004/05

20 runs @ 4.00
6 wickets @ 44.83

Career, 1996/97 to 2003/04

294 runs @ 9.19
64 wickets @ 22.17

Player Profile

Name: Sam Richardson
Marital Status: Single
Occupation: Student Commerce / Law)
Highest Score: PAOCCC 29, School - 96
Best Bowling: PAOCCC - 5/21 (Walkerville 2003-2004) - Brock Partners (A-Grade), PAOCCC regular fixture 5/51 Adelaide High 2002/2003 (A-Grade)
Greatest Cricket Achievement: Winning A1 2003-2004 Turf Premiership
Ambition for this season: Team - make Premier Grade finals, Personal - perform regularly - valuable member of team (various goals) - e.g. 20-25 wickets, 100+ runs @ 15 etc
Most memorable moment at PAOCCC: Sunday of last year's grand final (the whole occasion)
Most memorable game for PAOCCC: 2003-2004 A1 Grand Final
Funniest memory from the PAOCCC: Marcus Wills - everything the "big Ox" does
Most admired player at PAOCCC (past / present): Ned Pontifex / Simon Butler
Favourite social event: Popeye
Most embarrassing cricket moment: Diving over a stationary ball in last year's grand final - in the mud
Favourite aspect of cricket: Suspense (also my most hated)
Which song would you like to walk out to bat to: Coldplay - Clocks
Do you have any cricket superstitions: Like to be last out of change rooms before game and at tea

Favourite

Actor: Mike Myers
Actress: Cameron Diaz
Movie: Austin Powers Series
TV Show: Stingers
Band / Group: Coldplay
Food: Seafood / Chicken
Beverage: Don't have one - favourite beer - Miller
Favourite Australian cricket player (past or present): Darren Lehmann
Favourite International cricket player (past or present): Chris Cairns
Sportsperson: Juan Pablo Montoya - current, past - Damon Hill (both F1 drivers)
AFL team: West Coast Eagles

Other

What would be your ideal job? Enterpeneur
If you were not playing cricket, what would you be playing: Motor Racing
If you could have three people to dinner, who would they be and why? Murray Walker - the most knowledgeable man about my favourite sport - motor-racing, Osama Bin Laden - it would be the easiest $40 million one could make, Bill Clinton - the man who previously ran the world, i.e. the most powerful person of the last part of the 20th century