The Upwey Tecoma Cricket Club is affiliated in the Ferntree Gully District Cricket Association and fields teams in senior and junior grades. New members are always welcome
This page will be used to publish anything that is weird, strange or humourous. It can range from anything to strange videos, stories or even commentary on what is happening around the traps. As the Editor of this page I invite contributions from everyone at the club and this week we have our next interview with our 4ths Captian Rhett "Chappy" Chapman.
Name:
Rhett Chapman (Chappy)
Your earliest cricket memory is: Being put into slip in one of my first games and dropping catch after catch. I was 9. Never the same.
Best catch you have taken at any level of cricket: in a semi-final in u/14's, sliding on the run in front of a teammate with pretty unsure hands to snare our first wicket of the game.
Best six: hook shot on the Patch. Just puts the bowler in their place.
Best wicket: Playing U14's at Pickett Reserve, bowling mediums and got the ball to cut in from outside off and take the top of off. Stuck to a plan for the only time in my career (or life, for that matter) and it paid dividends. Go figure, huh.
Where were you on the day you were drafted to the Upwey Cricket Club Senior List: at the club - I was asked to fill in in a fourth XI game.
The hardest part of pre-season training: all of it
Favourite training drill: you're kidding, right?
If you could play another professional sport, it would be: Smoking?
Sports teams you support: Richmond Football Club
What is one thing people would be surprised to learn about you: I don't think that there is anything surprising or, in fact, interesting, about me at all.
Life motto: I'm too much of a contradiction to have a life motto.
What dish would you serve up if you were on MasterChef: Servo pie
Where is the furthest you have been from home: Fiji, when I was 7
What is the oldest item in your wardrobe that you still wear: an old Australia ODI shirt from the early 2000's
Most environmentally conscious teammate: probably myself, really. Working in water, you don't really get an option.
Teammate most likely to Google his own name: Sam Waters, by mistake while Googling Sam Taylor
Teammate most likely to go into politics after cricket: Shane Cross, but please don't. He'd make John Howard look like John Lennon.
What rules you more - your heart or your head: head without a doubt. Maybe stomach
Do you prefer a planned event or an unplanned event: no preference - some of the best nights ever have been spontaneous, but I do like the surety of a planned event.
The last concert you went to: Go West and Tony Hadlee. That's right.
Your favourite cricketer: Glenn McGrath
French fries or wedges: wedges
Speedos or boardshorts: I have a pretty strict no shorts policy - I try to spare the world the sight of my legs. I was described by a friend recently, after going to the beach with jeans on as looking like "a creepy old man with lollies in his top pocket".
What's the queerest song you have on your iPod: It's actually a tie. All of Austrian Death Machine, which is a heavy metal tribute to Anold Schwarzenegger, and the song Still Alive by Johnathon Coulton and GLaDOS from soundtrack to the video game Portal. And I admit that without any shame at all.
Funniest teammate and why: Maverick. Enough said .
Greatest memory at the Upwey Cricket Club: Darren Spence's impromptu 'prayer' after the 1st XI semi-final victory in 2010.
Your earliest cricket memory is: Being put into slip in one of my first games and dropping catch after catch. I was 9. Never the same.
Best catch you have taken at any level of cricket: in a semi-final in u/14's, sliding on the run in front of a teammate with pretty unsure hands to snare our first wicket of the game.
Best six: hook shot on the Patch. Just puts the bowler in their place.
Best wicket: Playing U14's at Pickett Reserve, bowling mediums and got the ball to cut in from outside off and take the top of off. Stuck to a plan for the only time in my career (or life, for that matter) and it paid dividends. Go figure, huh.
Where were you on the day you were drafted to the Upwey Cricket Club Senior List: at the club - I was asked to fill in in a fourth XI game.
The hardest part of pre-season training: all of it
Favourite training drill: you're kidding, right?
If you could play another professional sport, it would be: Smoking?
Sports teams you support: Richmond Football Club
What is one thing people would be surprised to learn about you: I don't think that there is anything surprising or, in fact, interesting, about me at all.
Life motto: I'm too much of a contradiction to have a life motto.
What dish would you serve up if you were on MasterChef: Servo pie
Where is the furthest you have been from home: Fiji, when I was 7
What is the oldest item in your wardrobe that you still wear: an old Australia ODI shirt from the early 2000's
Most environmentally conscious teammate: probably myself, really. Working in water, you don't really get an option.
Teammate most likely to Google his own name: Sam Waters, by mistake while Googling Sam Taylor
Teammate most likely to go into politics after cricket: Shane Cross, but please don't. He'd make John Howard look like John Lennon.
What rules you more - your heart or your head: head without a doubt. Maybe stomach
Do you prefer a planned event or an unplanned event: no preference - some of the best nights ever have been spontaneous, but I do like the surety of a planned event.
The last concert you went to: Go West and Tony Hadlee. That's right.
Your favourite cricketer: Glenn McGrath
French fries or wedges: wedges
Speedos or boardshorts: I have a pretty strict no shorts policy - I try to spare the world the sight of my legs. I was described by a friend recently, after going to the beach with jeans on as looking like "a creepy old man with lollies in his top pocket".
What's the queerest song you have on your iPod: It's actually a tie. All of Austrian Death Machine, which is a heavy metal tribute to Anold Schwarzenegger, and the song Still Alive by Johnathon Coulton and GLaDOS from soundtrack to the video game Portal. And I admit that without any shame at all.
Funniest teammate and why: Maverick. Enough said .
Greatest memory at the Upwey Cricket Club: Darren Spence's impromptu 'prayer' after the 1st XI semi-final victory in 2010.