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Brentwood CC Member Profile for Tim Barbone

Last Updated: 5th May 2005

Tim Barbone
Tim Barbone

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Nickname/s
Rocky.

Date of Birth
23rd August 1990 (although according to Ben Cocklin I am still four).

Bats
Right-handed.

Bowls
Offies (I want to be a trundler like Daddy when I grow up, just joking I could bowl better seam than him with my left arm and with my eyes closed).

Specialist Fielding Position
Where the ball is not hit hard at me for I am only a toddler.

Best Batting
106 not out vs Norwich for my school. 97 for the club U13s - I was out LBW after creaming it for four (I don't understand how it was out either, bloody umpire it was his son who was bowling).

Best Bowling
8-21 vs Ipswich School; 7-59 v Gidea Park and Romford on my 3rd team debut.

Previous Clubs
None and I wouldn't dream of moving.

Brentwood CC Member since
1999

On-field Club duties
U15 captain.

Off-field Club duties
Avoiding 1st team players lacing my coke with vodka in the bar.

Awards
Essex schools U11s ( now retired). South of England trials 2002/2003.

Little known personal fact
Loves the first teamers lacing my coke and buying me beer.

Sporting hero(es)
Alec Stewart, Deni (I am nearly as tall as him), Priddle, Nick Childs, Ken Lingwood, Bryan Robson (come on West Brom) and my Dad (yeah, he wishes).

Hobbies or Interests
Squash, tennis, cricket, watching footie (come on West Brom) and playing champ man.

Worst Moment
Taking my first wicket for the first team bowling an awesome batter and my dad shouts, "What a corker!" A South of England opening bowler who hit me 5 times in the ribs in 2 overs (that's why I wear a chest pad until I am bigger than 1 ft).

Most Memorable Match
Taking 5 wickets on my 4th XI and 3rd XI debuts.

Other
Thanks to Jon Coote, Ken and the others for the coaching at the club over the last 5 years.