THE CRICKET BURBLE TEAM
Dave McCabe
When David isn't following in his parents' footsteps by mucking about with lasers in an Oxford laboratory, the chances are he's either playing cricket or thinking about cricket or perhaps thinking about playing cricket. A steady, probing left-armer with the slowest slower ball in the business (often fooling the batsman because he 'pumps the ball up' in his run-up), he is also a highly capable batsman with the unfortunate knack of getting out whilst playing incredibly graceful and good looking shots. Amazingly, he didn’t pop his sixes cherry until he was twenty years old. He could be described as the Paul Collingwood of his current club side although how much of that accolade is due to his hair colour rather than his excellent catching at gully is open to debate.
Away from the great game David enjoys hiking, playing football like Steffen Freund, drinking real ale in nice pubs, playing Mornington Crescent and discussing the gratuitous anamorphic perspective in the works of Hans Holbein the Younger. He is a 24 year old physics graduate student and lives in Marston near Oxford.
Favourite cricketing memory:
"Attending the last day of the 2005 Edgbaston Test when England beat the Aussies by 2 runs. We almost didn't bother driving up that morning, despite having tickets, since an English win appeared to be such a 'formality' after the overnight position! Either that or bowling at some old man that our school coach brought along to our under-14s net session one lunchtime, and being amazed that this frail-looking chap was able to handle our raw 14-year-old pace without wearing any padding. He turned out to be Alvin Kallicharan."
When David isn't following in his parents' footsteps by mucking about with lasers in an Oxford laboratory, the chances are he's either playing cricket or thinking about cricket or perhaps thinking about playing cricket. A steady, probing left-armer with the slowest slower ball in the business (often fooling the batsman because he 'pumps the ball up' in his run-up), he is also a highly capable batsman with the unfortunate knack of getting out whilst playing incredibly graceful and good looking shots. Amazingly, he didn’t pop his sixes cherry until he was twenty years old. He could be described as the Paul Collingwood of his current club side although how much of that accolade is due to his hair colour rather than his excellent catching at gully is open to debate.
Away from the great game David enjoys hiking, playing football like Steffen Freund, drinking real ale in nice pubs, playing Mornington Crescent and discussing the gratuitous anamorphic perspective in the works of Hans Holbein the Younger. He is a 24 year old physics graduate student and lives in Marston near Oxford.
Favourite cricketing memory:
"Attending the last day of the 2005 Edgbaston Test when England beat the Aussies by 2 runs. We almost didn't bother driving up that morning, despite having tickets, since an English win appeared to be such a 'formality' after the overnight position! Either that or bowling at some old man that our school coach brought along to our under-14s net session one lunchtime, and being amazed that this frail-looking chap was able to handle our raw 14-year-old pace without wearing any padding. He turned out to be Alvin Kallicharan."