cras player profiles

This is want the public has been screaming out for. You wanted to know more about your larger than life hero's so here are the CRAS Player Profiles.

Aids   Alex    Bob    Buggers    Cutch     Dimi    Dortman      Gus

Jaap     Johnno     Kimbo Matty J      Mike Westy    Godfather Musca

NickyZ     Phil       Siggy      Spence     Willow

Tour Manager Aids

Name - Adrian Martin

Nickname - Tour Manager Aids

Oz Home State - NSW

Career Highlight to Date - Pulling a bird in Newcastle because of my Do

Boyhood Cricket Hero - Dean Jones

Favourite Food - Kebabs

Favourite Drink - Hoegaarden

Favourite Pub - Club Paradisio (Mykonos)

Favourite Female - Cat Deely

Favourite Sporting Team - Chelsea

Favourite Movie - Any Mafia movie

Favourite DJ - Paul Van Dyke

What would you spend a tenner on? Entrance to go clubbing

Ambitions To be on a float in the Berlin Love Parade

Kit Sponsor Diesel

Any Last Words Don't Die Wondering

Alex

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Name Alex Macpherson

Nickname Furry

Oz Home State NSW

Career Highlight to Date Founding Captain of CRAS

Boyhood Cricket Hero   Richie Benaud

Favourite Food   Mc CRAS - now available at McDonalds

Favourite Drink   Beer

Favourite Pub   The Stud & Slapper

Favourite Female   All of them - not fussy

Favourite Sporting Team    The Everglades Retirement Village Indoor Scrabble & Chess Team

Favourite Movie   Big Fat Henry & Naughty Schoolgirls 4

Favourite Rock Band   Underworld

What would you spend a tenner on?   Small, white, round (**one day cricket ball?**)

Your Ideal Day Off   Sun, surf, beer, chicks

Ambitions   To establish a life membership for high performance within the CRAS

Kit Sponsor   VB & NASA

Any Last Words Em eh em eh... Luv Yous all

Bob

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Name Bob Hicks

Nickname Boom Boom

Oz Home State NSW

Career Highlight to Date Man of the Match vs Pakistan

Boyhood Cricket Hero   David "56 cans" Boon - Boooonnnney

Favourite Food   Pizza

Favourite Drink   Tooheys New ..... mmmmm

Favourite Pub   Newport Arms during Miss Newport Arms competition

Favourite Female   Anything that show an interest

Favourite Sporting Team    What can I say......CRAS

Favourite Movie   Mudchute Madness staring all the CRAS members

Favourite Rock Band   Men At Work

What would you spend a tenner on?   Buying beer for fellow CRAS members

Your Ideal Day Off   Spreading the gospel according to CRAS

Ambitions   CRAS Life Membership

Kit Sponsor   Backdoor Benny's Fine Cricket Apparel

Any Last Words Why do Kamikaze pilots wear helmets?

Buggers

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Name Brad Bugg

Nickname Buggers

Oz Home State Perth, WA

Career Highlight to Date Debut match against the West Indies at West Ham, which turned out to be Siggy's farewell.

Boyhood Cricket Hero   Dennis Lillee (Sorry Carl he's a Sandgroper!)

Favourite Food   Lasagne

Favourite Drink   Beer

Favourite Pub   The Cottesloe Beach Hotel

Favourite Female   Melanie Sykes

Favourite Sporting Team    North Melbourne Football Club

Favourite Movie   Trading Places

Favourite Rock Band   U2

What would you spend a tenner on?   Beer

Your Ideal Day Off   A day with cricket and the CRAS and sticking it to the Poms

Ambitions   To open the bowling with our inspiration, Big Carl coming in from the other end

Kit Sponsor   GM

Any Last Words Don't drink and bowl unless you're a bloody idiot - it's bad for your ankle!

Cutch

Name Paul McCutcheon

Nickname Cutch

Oz Home State Haven’t gat one

Career Highlight to Date A massive six while batting with big Tone in pre-season

Boyhood Cricket Hero David Gower

Favourite Food Steak

Favourite Drink Vodka Red Bull

Favourite Pub The Ship

Favourite Female Holly Vallance

Favourite Sporting Team Leicester Tigers

Favourite Movie Purely Belter

Favourite Rock Band S Club 7

What would you spend a tenner on? A nite in the toone

Your Ideal Day Off Lying on a beach in Miami

Ambitions To sail around the world and live abroad

Kit Sponsor Pierhead Finance

Any Last Words Weeeeeeeeyyyyyyyyeeeeeeeeee eyyyeeeeeee son. Geordie juice – all good

Dimi

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Name Dimitri Taylor

Nickname Dimi

Oz Home State Victoria

Career Highlight to Date Being announced as Co-Captain for the England game

Boyhood Cricket Hero   Greg Chappell & Lenny Pascoe (what a great Aussie name and a bowling panache

Favourite Food   BBQ - lots of it

Favourite Drink   VB

Favourite Pub   The Swan - or anywhere Slappa's can be found

Favourite Female   Umma Thurmin

Favourite Sporting Team    CRAS (Is that the right answer Capt?)

Favourite Movie   The Godfather Trilogy

Favourite Rock Band   Queen - for writing our theme song "We are the Champions"

What would you spend a tenner on? All you can drink at the Gin Palace, Old Kent Rd,London

Your Ideal Day Off   30 degrees, sandy beach, jet ski's, a few mates each being rubbed down down our respective favourite female (see above) with a BBQ being cooked by the aforementioned female

Ambitions   To score a century for the CRAS

Kit Sponsor   Ansell's new "Cherry Flavoured Pussy Lick"

Any Last Words What an honour it has been to share a box with such a quality team like CRAS

Dortman

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Name Rob Brisot

Nickname Dortman (aka Doorman)

Oz Home State NSW

Career Highlight to Date All the CRAS victories

Boyhood Cricket Hero   The one and only DK Lillee and his Aluminum bat

Favourite Food   Thai, Mexican, Indian and the lovely juicy Tuna Taco's

Favourite Drink   Tooheys New, Guinness, Oktoberfest Beers, TQ Hot Tequila & Makers Mark Bourbon

Favourite Pub   Newport Arms - Sydney Northern Beaches & The Beach Hotel, Byron Bay.....sorts galore!

Favourite Female  Kirsty Gallagher, Sheryl Crow & Denise Richards

Favourite Sporting Team    Liverpool FC, Juventus FC & the fallen Manly-Warringah Rugby League Club

Favourite Movie   The Blues Brothers

Favourite Rock Band   U2, Rolling Stones & The Angles

What would you spend a tenner on?   A Cappuccino and a smoke in an Amsterdam coffee shop

Your Ideal Day Off   Sitting at Newport Arms drinking ice cold schooners of Tooheys New on a summers day whilst watching continuous replays of the numerous CRAS victories played over the English summer

Ambitions  To win the 2003 Cricket World Cup with the CRAS

Kit Sponsor   DF - Duncan Fearnley, Nike, 555Door.com, and Arthur C Guinness

Any Last Words 1. "It's not a lie if you believe it!" George Costanza 2. "Tell them what they want to hear". 3. "It's just not socially accepted".

Godfather Musca

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Name Peter Musca

Nickname Godfather, Rockstar

Oz Home State WA

Career Highlight to Date Letting through 60 odd runs, getting bowled for a duck, and having 13 runs hit off one over - all in the inaugural match against the CRAS

Boyhood Cricket Hero   Johnno - CRAS Captain

Favourite Food   Spaghetti

Favourite Drink   Canadian CRAS & Dry

Favourite Pub   CRAS Players Bar

Favourite Female   My Mum

Favourite Sporting Team    CRAS

Favourite Movie   Episode 1: The CRAS Menace

Favourite Rock Band   Rolling CRAS

What would you spend a tenner on?   CRAS Merchandise

Your Ideal Day Off   Training with member's of the CRAS

Ambitions  Man of The Match in a CRAS victory

Kit Sponsor   CSG - CRAS Sporting Goods

Any Last Words "CRAS"

Gus

Name : Angus McLean

Nickname : Gus

Oz Home State : NSW

Career Highlight to Date : Meeting Mr Rackemann and being told “Call me Carl”

Boyhood Cricket Hero : Mark “Tubby” Taylor

Favourite Food : I would have to say Pigeon, lightly roasted in a gwabeju with some shitaki mushrooms and some crisp greens on the side

Favourite Drink : Duff – Can’t get enough of that wonderful Duff

Favourite Pub : Clovelly Hotel on a Sunday

Favourite Female : Sarah Michelle Gellar (Buffy)

Favourite Sporting Team : ’83 Parramatta Eels

Favourite Movie : Empire Strikes Back

Favourite Rock Band : U2

What would you spend a tenner on? Betting that Tim Henman will NEVER win a Grand Slam

Your Ideal Day Off : Playing beach cricket in Barbados

Ambitions : To one day own the Dallas Cowboys

Kit Sponsor : Adidas (All Day I Dream About Sex)

Any Last Words : Keep it low and into the wind.

Jaap

Name Christian

Nickname Jaap

Oz Home State NSW

Career Highlight to Date 36 vs South Africa

Boyhood Cricket Hero Merv Hughes

Favourite Food Pasta

Favourite Drink Stella Artois

Favourite Pub CRAS CC Headquarters

Favourite Female Liz Hurley

Favourite Sporting Team Tottenham Hotspur FC

Favourite Movie Empire Strikes Bback

Favourite Rock Band Metallica

What would you spend a tenner on? 4 pints of stella

Your Ideal Day Off in a pub beer garden

Ambitions to bowl without a suspect action

Kit Sponsor Baja Beach Club

Any Last Words YIDO's

Johnno

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Name Johnno

Nickname Johnno, Eddie, Hammer, Smith, Cliffy, Howdy, Den, Spider, Alan, Dudes and a few more that slip the memory at the moment

Oz Home State NSW

Career Highlight to Date Being given the CRAS Captaincy by Siggy, meeting the great one Carl Mocca Rackemann, the CRAS web site reaching 20,000 hits, and launching CRAS merchandise - Stubby Holders, Polo shirts and Playing shirts.

Boyhood Cricket Hero   The almighty batsman David Hookes, plus Johnny Gibbs & Ronnie Gibbs from Manly-Warringah Rugby League Club

Favourite Food   Wiener Schnitzel, Pasta & Pizza

Favourite Drink   Corona & Lemon, Michelob, Amstel (Hampster), Vodka & Red Bull

Favourite Pub   BELUSHI'S BAR & Baja Beach Club, Barcelona

Favourite Female   Click here to find out!

Favourite Sporting Team CRAS, Manchester Utd, Manly-Warringah Rugby League Club, Club 215/Warriors Touch Football Club, Australia in any sport!

Favourite Movie   Goodfella's, Ford Fairlane, Swingers, Austin Powers, Bachelor Party, The Godfather Trilogy, Let it Ride, Pulp Fiction, Leaving Las Vegas, Reservoir Dogs, True Romance, Say Anything, Stir Crazy, Blues Brothers, Ace Ventura - Pet Detective, Internal Affairs

Favourite Rock Band   Pearl Jam & CRAS Brass Band

What would you spend a tenner on?   Matching pair of CRAS Golden Goblets

Your Ideal Day Off   Drinking some quiet brown lemonades (beer) with the CRAS boys At Corfu or Barcelona

Ambitions  To take the CRAS into the millennium and beyond whilst being fully Y2K compliant

Kit Sponsor   Oakley in conjunction with Mambo, Quiksilver, & Billabong

Any Last Words "What the ****'s going on...why aren't they out there?" (12th Man - Richie Benaud)

Kimbo

Name Kim Marchant

Nickname Kimbo

Oz Home State QLD

Career Highlight to Date 99 Windies Tour to the Carribean (as a spectator of course)

Boyhood Cricket Hero The great AB

Favourite Food Mexican

Favourite Drink silly question - Beer!

Favourite Pub Churchill Arms

Favourite Female Liv Tyler

Favourite Sporting Team Any Australian National side

Favourite Movie Pulp Fiction

Favourite Rock Band U2

What would you spend a tenner on? Favourite Female

Your Ideal Day Off Getting Nude & Lude with Favourite Female

Ambitions Limited

Kit Sponsor Fosters

Any Last Words Queenslander !!!!

Mike Westy

Name - Mike Westcott

Nickname - Snare, Cowboy Mike

Oz Home State - WA

Career Highlight to Date - Outsubbing Graeme Moss, twice in a row

Boyhood Cricket Hero - The Don

Favourite Food - Beer

Favourite Drink - Guinness

Favourite Pub - The Welted Poodle

Favourite Female - Kate Moss (no relation to Graeme)

Favourite Sporting Team - The Wallabies

Favourite Movie - Blade Runner

Favourite Rock Band - Tool

What would you spend a tenner on? - Stuff

Your Ideal Day Off - (order of proceedings) Blow job, Guinness, bucket, out of bed, bloody mary, fry-up, bloody mary, blow job, bucket, EH Holden, beach, surf, blow job, bucket, Guinness, 9 holes, call work and tell them I’m not coming in, Guinness, blow job, bucket, pub on beach, shotgun race, pool, Guinness, bucket, blow job, prank phone call, bucket, bucket, bucket, stuff I can’t remember…

Ambitions - to make Guinness commercials and write headlines for the Sun on the side.

Kit Sponsor - Guinness

Any Last Words - The Don is dead, long live The Don

Matty J

Name Mat Johnson

Nickname Rev

Oz Home State NSW

Career Highlights to Date Cras Debut v Pakistan (of Course), Scoring 78 n.o. v West Indies when the side needed me!!!! (only to be denied the 100 by Kimbo with a loose stroke on 45), 1st Grade Shires Debut 1995 (Hills Shire CC), Captaining the Hills Shire CC 4th Grade to the clubs 1st (and only) premiership-1998

Boyhood Cricket Hero Dean Jones and BOONIE!!!! (Adult : Matt Hayden for his perseverance)

Favourite Food Beer (eating’s cheating!!!!)/Pork Rinds

Favourite Drink Beer / WKD/B52’s/(Becoming a snakebite drinker also)

Favourite Pub Moe’s bar

Favourite Female One with a heart beat!!!

Favourite Sporting Team CRAS, Aussie Cricket team, Essendon F.C

Favourite Movie Blues Brothers, Waynes World, South Park-The Movie

Favourite Rock Band Powderfinger/Hunters and Collectors /and the Oils (I couldn’t choose just one)

What would you spend a tenner on? Beer

Your Ideal Day Off Finding a spot in London with some sun (you said Ideal, not real), sitting back sinking a few cold ones while the CRAS machine performs it’s feats

Ambitions To score 100 for the CRAS and then get given the ball and take 5 fa not many

Kit Sponsor CRAS Merchandising/Diamond Joe Quimby’s Presidential Campaign/

Any Last Words

1-Hey Homer, I’m worried about the beer supply!! After this case, and the other case, there’s only one case left!!!!!!!!

2-"Son, when you participate in sporting events, its not whether you win or
loose, its how drunk you get."

3-"Alright Brain, you don't like me, and I don't like you. But lets just do this, and I can get back to killing you with beer."

4-"Just because I don't care doesn't mean I don't understand."

5 -""Maybe, just once, someone will call me 'sir' without adding, 'you're making a scene.'"

6-"You never know when an old calendar might come in handy! Sure, it's not 1985 right now, but who knows what tomorrow will bring?"

7-When will I learn? The answers to life's problems aren't at the bottom of a bottle! They're on TV!

8-"How can you say anything bad about TV, Marge? It gives so much and asks so little."

9"Television - teacher, mother, secret lover!"

10-"I want to share something with you - the three sentences that will get you through life. Number one, 'cover for me.' Number two, 'oh,good idea,boss.' Number three, 'it was like that when I got here.'"

Nicky Z

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Name Nick Zdunic

Nickname Nicky Zee

Oz Home State WA

Career Highlight to Date Witnessing Siggys memorable speech after the Windies victory

Boyhood Cricket Hero DK Lillee & Merv Hughes - for plain committment to the cause

Favourite Food   Pizza and then Spaghetti, Tapas

Favourite Drink   Red Wine

Favourite Pub   The Cottesloe Beach Hotel

Favourite Female   Currently the Euro lasses are driving me wild...I can't decide, I like them all

Favourite Sporting Team    CRAS, Fremantle Dockers

Favourite Movie   Down By Law

Favourite Rock Band   James Brown

What would you spend a tenner on?   A sturdy box

Your Ideal Day Off   Cricket, cold ones and a lovely lass

Ambitions  To make my CRAS comeback

Kit Sponsor   Kookaburra

Any Last Words La Vida a loco

Phil

Name Andrew Farthing

Nickname Phil, Lockers, Fladi (and a few unquotable ones)

Oz Home State NSW

Career Highlight to Date My first CRAS Cap. I don't mind saying it bought a tear to the eye when I got the call up

Boyhood Cricket Hero DK Lillee - a true legend and a great 'tauche as well

Favourite Food   Mums baked dinners (of course). Anything but Mr Wu's Soho.

Favourite Drink   Bourbon, Lager, Vodka, Red Bull, Tequila, Gin, Scotch, etc (you get the idea)

Favourite Pub   Waxy O'Connor's in Soho, Pitcher & Piano in Fulham

Favourite Female   My girlfriend (of course) and the entire female population of Scandinavia

Favourite Sporting Team    Man Utd, CRAS, Parramatta Eels, Castle Hill United Under 21's 1991

Favourite Movie   Locker (1991) Surfers Paradise, Qld, Aust. A cinematic masterpiece shot by the now famous Dortman.

Favourite Rock Band   Sabotage/Cutting Edge

What would you spend a tenner on?   Sabotage's New Live Album

Your Ideal Day Off With four 18 year old Scandinavian females whilst watching continuous replays of Ole-Gunnar Solskaer's 1999 winning goal for the European Cup for Man Utd

Ambitions See above

Kit Sponsor Sabotage Worldwide Entertainment Corp Ltd, The Tourist Board of Scandinavia, JVC Home Video Systems

Any Last Words I think I've said enough already

Siggy

Name Simon Ellery

Nickname Siggy

Oz Home State WA

Career Highlight to Date Getting the match ball signed by the lads after slipping by the Windies in the 1st match against the scoob smoking, rum punch drinkin,' reggae listening nancy boyz

Boyhood Cricket Hero AB

Favourite Food Ham

Favourite Drink VB in the city, EB in the bush

Favourite Pub The Knutsford Arms in Menora before the made it all pooncy and started serving swordfish and the like

Favourite Female

Favourite Sporting Team CRAS - 'cause they're keeping it real !

Favourite Movie Any Star Wars

Favourite Rock Band Slayer/Pantera

What would you spend a tenner on? Piss and Bad manners

Your Ideal Day Off Shag, BBQ lunch, Boozer early, Bed early

Ambitions CRAS reunion in Oz and maybe a CRAS tour of the West Indies with the test side

Kit Sponsor CUB

Any Last Words Go hard lads you do me proud !!!!

Spence

Name Spencer Swadling

Nickname The Admiral

Oz Home State Inebriated

Career Highlight to Date Adjudicating the ‘Final’ of the fusball tournament.. Berties, Newquay, RTTS 2000
Boyhood Cricket Hero Ian Botham

Favourite Food Thai.. Chinese.. Indian.. Italian.. Mexican.. Vietnamese.. (Not necessarily in that order)

Favourite Drink Stella

Favourite Pub ‘The Oaks’… Neutral Bay, Sydney

Favourite Female That Lady in the new Tomb Raider movie

Favourite Sporting Team Liverpool ‘The Mighty Reds’ FC

Favourite Movie The Green Mile

Favourite Rock Band Aerosmith, Bruce ‘The Boss’ Springsteen & The E street band

What would you spend a tenner on? A new Toga outfit (my current one is now showing signs of age.. perhaps I should was it?)

Your Ideal Day Off Playing football in a park in the sun, near a bar and a beer garden, with the boys (that tomb raider lady as physio), before slipping into my Toga and off to a Beach party… with foam

Ambitions Take an injury whilst in the above scenario

Kit Sponsor NASA, Yokahama, Ever Ready, Carlsberg, The Roman Empire & Jordan

Any Last Words Todo Bien

Willow

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Name Peter Willis

Nickname Willow

Oz Home State Victoria and Melbourne - "The Sporting Capital of the World!"

Career Highlight to Date Had a shot at the first ever CRAS hat-trick, only to have the ball rise sharply and hit
the unsuspecting fool on the arm

Boyhood Cricket Hero Dean Jones - "he's a Victorian, he's a hero!"

Favourite Food   Pasta.....all kinds AND Mr Wu's at Soho

Favourite Drink  Sadly for my waist and wallet it is BEER!

Favourite Pub   OZ - Portsea Pub - The greatest beer garden in the world! UK - Captain Kidd at Wapping

Favourite Female   Mrs Thelma Jones - who loved cricket so much she gave her only son to the world so we
could all marvel at the wizardry of Dean Michael Jones

Favourite Sporting Team    Australian Cricket Team (all era's) - who are the inspiration behind our amazing
string of victories

Favourite Movie   Carlitos Way, Wall Street

Favourite Rock Band   Iron Maiden - oh to hear the dulcet tones of Mr Bruce "air raid siren" Dickinson

What would you spend a tenner on?   UNPRINTABLE (Johnno)

Your Ideal Day Off   What we call a "Ferris Day" - I think we have all seen the email about the ideal day off -
couldn't possibly beat it

Ambitions  Bat for the CRAS at a higher position than number 10 - Oh to dream!

Kit Sponsor  Shoes by Slazenger, bat by V12, clothing by Hugo Boss, and hair products by Vidal Sassoon

Any Last Words "Cricket - it's all good!"