Player Profile

 

Full Name (including all middle names)

 

Michael Peter Herlihy

DOB (No Lies)

 

17 /3/58

Sundown Specials Role

 

 

Right hand opening bat

Occasional medium pace bowler

 

Height

 

6’

Weight (definitely no lies)

12stone 12

Nickname (yes even those you hate)

smiler

Sundown Specials Debut

July 1981

Marital Status

 

Married with one daughter

Family Links with Cricket

(you must have some!)

Wife’s cousin is scorer for Sky Sports and Talk Radio

Cricketing Education

 

 

Playing in my dad’s drive against the next door neighbour Roger Chadwick

Sundown Specials players admired and why

Mark Naisbitt-a great advert for alcoholics in sport

John Hollis for withstanding two cracks on the head by a West Indian opening bowler that both went for 4 byes and not retiring hurt

Young Sundowner to watch out for

 

Jack Reed

Greatest moment for Sundown Specials

 

 

 

Hitting winning runs off last ball of a midweek Thames Insurance League game v National Coal Board in 1985 after being no balled for the only time in 20 years for chucking by the square leg umpire.

Greatest Strop witnessed at Specials match

 

 

 

Mark Naisbitt in tour game v Horncastle when he believed some of our players had thrown their wickets away and as number 11  he was out first ball, not deliberately. He had to be coaxed back to the field for their innings.

Injuries current or likely to recur

 

Slight groin strain

Diseases current or likely to recur

 

N/a

Favourite Film

 

Casino

Favourite Porno Film

 

The one where the Puerto Rican bloke advises viewers not to try a particular sexual manoeuvre at home

Favourite Book

 

Miss Wyoming-Douglas Coupland

Favourite Song

 

Low Tide of the night-Everything but the Girl

If you weren’t a cricketer what would you be?

 

Very unhappy

Favourite restaurant and meal(Andy…only one!)

 

Nick’s restaurant Killorglin County Kerry,Eire

 

Cromane Salmon in white sauce +new potatoes

Favourite Cricket Club Bar

 

Horncastle CC

Worst Cricket Club Bar

 

 

The bar at Walthamstow Horizontal’s ground

Favourite Pub in the UK

 

 

The Clifton St John’s Wood

Favourite Pub outside UK

 

Buffy’s Bar  Ocean Spray Road,Barbados

You must be good at something – name it

 

 

Tennis ,networking and judging people

Any Other relevant information you would like to contribute

 

 

Worst sundown specials X1 of all time (for starters)

S Francini

I Bing

P Browder(captain)

R McGloughlin

O K Banana

T O Rourke

A Pearce(aka smelly)

C Verma

B Scott

A Ryan

SMorris