THE CRICKET BURBLE TEAM
Mark Davis
Mark is the inspiration behind Cricket Burble. He burbles often, but not exclusively, about cricket, throughout his daily life, but in particular he spends one week per year on tour with his cricket club in the Thames Valley, where he burbles to anyone who will listen. His answer phone message during tour week each year tells callers that he is not working as he is "drinking beer and taking wickets" - his ability to do the latter being severely limited by the former.
Mark is one of life's eternal optimists, and as such is loved by all that meet him as it is almost impossible to find him in a "down moment". It's also this optimism that causes him to shout "catch" as another of his loopy off-spinners is deposited well over the boundary. Such is his joie de vivre, he has captained many a cricketing side to success and continues to dive around in the field like a spring chicken despite having passed the half century mark! Never on any account ask Mark to open the innings....it's less entertaining than watching paint dry.
Mark has the job that everyone else is jealous of - he surveys pubs on behalf of Criterion. He lives with his wife Jane in Walton-upon-Thames, most of his three children having left home, and he is known to frequent The George most nights where they really are sick of his burbling!
Favourite cricketing memory:
"Being 12th man for Hertfordshire - to this day it is still on my CV"
Mark is the inspiration behind Cricket Burble. He burbles often, but not exclusively, about cricket, throughout his daily life, but in particular he spends one week per year on tour with his cricket club in the Thames Valley, where he burbles to anyone who will listen. His answer phone message during tour week each year tells callers that he is not working as he is "drinking beer and taking wickets" - his ability to do the latter being severely limited by the former.
Mark is one of life's eternal optimists, and as such is loved by all that meet him as it is almost impossible to find him in a "down moment". It's also this optimism that causes him to shout "catch" as another of his loopy off-spinners is deposited well over the boundary. Such is his joie de vivre, he has captained many a cricketing side to success and continues to dive around in the field like a spring chicken despite having passed the half century mark! Never on any account ask Mark to open the innings....it's less entertaining than watching paint dry.
Mark has the job that everyone else is jealous of - he surveys pubs on behalf of Criterion. He lives with his wife Jane in Walton-upon-Thames, most of his three children having left home, and he is known to frequent The George most nights where they really are sick of his burbling!
Favourite cricketing memory:
"Being 12th man for Hertfordshire - to this day it is still on my CV"