Pen Pics - Andy Hood

	Name:	ANDY HOOD
	Weight:	One of the lighter team members
	Nickname:	Winky - you'd have to ask cough drop why! (Hood-wink.....see it's actually a clean nickname)
	Batsman? Bowler? Keeper? None of the above? Something else :	Used to be a bowler but muscling in on the batting
	Batting style?	Depends on the mood
	General cricketing style?	Determined
	Previous Teams played for?	UCW commoners, Aberystwyth Uni, Chelsfield Park, Sevenoaks Wednesday, the Vine etc….
How long have you been (a) casual?	Since the summer of '93

Number of games played for the Casuals?	Quite a few probably past the 150 mark
What you bring to the Casuals team?	A sense of gravitas
Who is your Doppleganger?	Ben Elton possibly?
Hobbies?	Golf, used to play basketball and badminton as well.
Favourite food?	Quality Curry - lamb passanda
Favourite music?	Favourite composer Zimmer
Favourite film?	The Natural
What was your last DVD / CD purchase?	DVD: Ray, CD: Red Hot Chilli Peppers
What 3 people would you most like to invite to a dinner party?:	Oliver Reed, Ian Botham and Michelangelo
Ideal Woman?	Kerry of course!
Age you started playing the glorious game?	4
Best performance?	8 for 51 v Longfield Hill, 80 not out v Pumpsaint
Favourite game played?	Our win against Miskin Manor when Andy F hit the winning runs off the last ball
Favourite venue played …ever?	Canterbury (yes the one with the tree)
Cricketer you most admire and why?	Graham Dilley not just for that knock with Ian Botham in the ashes, but for his bowling style and attitude to personal setbacks.
Casual cricketer you most admire and why?	Steveo for showing that you can improve after years of effort! Keep it up - the cricket that is…. Also Paul for wearing those t-shirts and not giving a !*?$
Funniest moment on the Casuals field?	V Barry Wanderers when Steveo caught one on the boundary and proceeded to celebrate by chucking it up and over his head into long grass behind him - losing the ball!
Favourite tour moment?	Probably will never forget the night Princess Di exited the world stage…. I'm sure many of the sick jokes originated in Caio.
Favourite Tea had as a casual? (Home or Away)	Miskin Manor - fantastic match, fantastic tea
I like playing for the casuals because……….	this is what cricket should be about.
I hate playing for the casuals because…………	of the showers after the games - quite terrifying!
If I didn’t play so much cricket I’d be……….	I'd be bored
Did you know….	As a former Casuals captain, Andy has been given many opportunities that would not be open to mere mortals. Indeed the Casuals captaincy meant, at the time, that he was welcomed into any club and restaurant in the city centre. So much so that after guiding the casuals to 11 straight wins at the start of the 2004 season he was given the key to the city and had a portrait commissioned that sits in City Hall next to the one of Prince Charles. However since leaving he has trouble getting into his local kebab house in Grangetown....ah how fickle the sports fans of Cardiff are!