Player Profile

 

Full Name (including all middle names)

 

Antony Howard Medlock

DOB (No Lies)

 

14/11/65

Sundown Specials Role

 

 

Middle order batsman, usually cavalier. Right arm offspin, which meanders between devastating and crap.

Height

 

6 feet

Weight (definitely no lies)

Up and down, mostly up

Nickname (yes even those you hate)

Meds

Sundown Specials Debut

17th May 1986 v Red Lion & Pineapple

Marital Status

 

Never quite reached the alter, but live with partner Maddie & son Luke

Family Links with Cricket

(you must have some!)

Brother wicket keeper for Horncastle

Cricketing Education

 

 

Drive way Langton Close, Horncastle v Pete Medlock, and daring him to fetch the ball I had slogged into Mrs Bryants garden.

Sundown Specials players admired and why

Smiler for his ability to get us on the pitch each week, John Hollis for his inability to enjoy a game whilst it’s happening.

Anyone who has no clue about the game but still turns up to be ridiculed.

Young Sundowner to watch out for

 

Hollis

Greatest moment for Sundown Specials

 

 

 

Smashing a tile on the roof of some flats next to Tenterton’s pitch. When the owner came to complain and asked who was responsible, Mark Naisbitt blamed the bowler.

Greatest Strop witnessed at Specials match

 

 

 

“You’re a c**nt and you’re a c**t” Mark Naisbitt to Mick and me at Horncastle.

Injuries current or likely to reccur

 

Neck and calf

Diseases current or likely to reccur

 

Alcoholism

Favourite Film

 

Kes

Favourite Porno Film

 

Buttman in Brazil

Favourite Book

 

Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha – Roddy Doyle

Favourite Song

 

Take time to know her – Percy Sledge

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

 

Rock God

Favourite restaurant and meal(Andy…only one!)

 

Roberto’s Café – Long Lane, Finchley Central.

Indian, especially on a Sunday night after a victory.

Favourite Cricket Club Bar

 

Upton

Worst Cricket Club Bar

 

 

Bars at test grounds in England

Favourite Pub in the UK

 

 

Before it was ruined, the Joiners Arms.

 

 

Favourite Pub outside UK

 

Old Absinthe bar – New Orleans or Roadside Tavern - Lisdoonvarna

You must be good at something – name it

 

 

Singing

Any Other relevant information you would like to contribute

 

 

Many thanks to J. Hollis for persuading me to play in an evening game at Clitterhouse (approx 1986 no idea about oppo), there was a full-blown storm, with lightning and all.

When I asked him if we should carry on he replied    “Yeah, it will blow over soon!”

Trevor Harwood was scoring in a book, which was becoming pulp, the ball was the size of a small melon, yet we carried on.

I always new, from that moment on, no matter how bad or sad the cricketer I became, here was a team I could always get a game with – thanks for the memories.