Put simply, Mike is the father of Harbledown Cricket Club; he has been the engine room of the club for more than a decade. He has undertaken all of the thankless tasks that are required to successfully run a club. He has picked teams, cut tracks, made teas, fixed lawn mowers; the list is endless. Without Mike, the club would have undoubtedly been much worse off. 

Mike is an aggressive batsman, whether opening or in the middle order. There have been countless occasions when he has got the first team off to a flyer and left the opposition bewildered with his six hitting and frenetic run rate. The highlight of Mike’s batting career must be when he hit a hundred in 4 consecutive innings.  

Mike has an excellent pair of hands and is secretly quite a decent wicketkeeper. However, his bowling can only be described as tragi-comic. Occasionally he will bring himself on to bowl in the hope of “buying” a wicket. What he does not realise is that the wickets he buys tend to be rather expensive; and when I say expensive, I am thinking of oil trading at $147 a barrel type expensive. 

Mike was club captain for many years and he moulded the club’s golden generation from under-achievers into Division 2 winners.