STATISTICS

Season 2004/05
260 runs @ 20.00, highest score - 65

PAOCCC Career (to 2004/05)
531 runs @ 20.42, highest score - 65

PERSONAL DETAILS

Full Name: Charlie Aust
Also known as: Wonderdog
Height: 183cm
Occupation: Student
Marital status: Girlfriend (Sarah)

YOU AND CRICKET

Batting style / position: Opener Adam Gilchrist-like
Highest score: 121 and for the school, 112*
Most memorable innings seen at PAOCCC: 121, will always be the first ton for the club otherwise 65 off about 30 balls against St. Ignatius
Favourite batsman (past or present): modesty does not allow oneself to be put into ones favourites, so apart from myself, any batsman who will take an attack from the bowlers is good to watch, like Hayden and Gilchrist at their best
Bowling style: Balfours netbowler pies, kind of the like the "footy pie"
Best bowling: 5 for 9 including a hat-trick back at school
Most memorable bowling innings seen at PAOCCC: Charlie Aust bowling Dave Larkins in the nets! (more than once as well)
Favourite bowler (past or present): Merv, Craig McDermott
Favourite fielding position: Behind the stumps
If you could play just one test match, where would it be: Adelaide Oval
The most memorable match (any level) you saw live, either at the ground or on television: Still remember when Michael Bevan hit four off the last ball to win against the Windies in about 1995
What song would you want to walk out to bat / run in to bowl to: Blaze of Glory, Bon Jovi
Goals for 2005/06: premiership, score 100 (done)

MORE ABOUT YOU, THE MAN

Favourite South Australian restaurant: Jasmin restaurant
Favourite South Australian drinking venue: Unibar, Queen's Head
All time greatest movie: Fight Club
All time greatest band: U2
Album which is always in your car / home stereo: Joshua Tree, U2
The best concert you ever saw (or will see): Billy Joel / Elton John Adelaide Oval, but will see U2 when they come to Australia
Your idea of a perfect day: Golf and beer, then steak and a good red

HYPOTHETICALS

Member of PAOCCC most likely to end up in a boy band: Chris Spencer
If there was a movie made about you, who should play you: Vinnie Jones
Should tomato be a fruit or vegetable: It should be sauce!
Member of PAOCCC you're most likely to see on:
(a) Survivor: Marcus Wills, and he'd still know the most people there
(b) Queer Eye for the Straight Guy: Alex Harrod / Michael Richardson
(c) Australian Idol: Dave Larkins butchering U2, INXS or Hunters and Collectors
(d) The Bill: Matt Thomas or Alex Harrod as soccer hooligans
Who would you take to the Allan Border medal: my girlfriend or Scarlet Johansson
Which sport should make way for cricket at the 2008 Beijing Olympics: Female weighlifting
If you were in a famous band, what would it be called: Bay of Pigs All-Stars
If you could meet anyone, dead or alive, who would it be and why: Bono because the way he looks at the world
Would you rather win the World Cup or the Ashes and why: Ashes because I could stick it up my English friends and relatives
Would cricket be better with tackling: yes it would
International cricketer you'd most like to sledge and why: Pieterson, just look at him and he does not rate himself, tool!
Best job in the world: F1 engineer, beer taster in Germany or Belgium
Member of PAOCCC you'd want to see walk out to bat when you need 14 of the last over: myself or Ben Cunningham
Bowler from PAOCCC you'd most like to having bowling when the opposition needs four runs off the last over to win: Benny Allen or Simon Butler