2008 Touring Photo

Mahboob Hussain. As captain last year, he led the team to a respectable showing in the shield competition and, as a result, was promptly sacked – only to be reinstated after the new captain threatened to do even better! As a canny off-spinner, Mahboob is extremely good at finding the batsman’s weakness, unfortunately this usually includes a weakness for hitting sixes.

Amjid Hussain. Opening batsman who cites true Yorkshire grit and determination as his reason for scoring at one run an over whilst the rest of us just call it plain selfishness. Amjid has stated that when his eyesight is failing too much for him to continue as a batsman, he would like to become an umpire.

Moey Hassan. Moey will be taking a break from his professional acting and dramatics career in order to come to Chiang Mai where he will prepare for his next role by spending the week impersonating a cricketer. Based on last years performance, we know there will be plenty of playing and missing but are not sure yet whether it will be on the field or elsewhere.

Nasir Khaliq. Nasir is a medium pacer and the team’s opening bowler. He leaves others to bowl for LBW’s and caught behinds, whilst he concentrates on bowling for run-outs. He was once told that a local team wanted him to play for them very badly. He duly obliged by playing very badly indeed.

Arslan Ijaz. Arslan is a hard hitting batsman and a medium paced bowler whose attention span means that he will be ideally suited to 5 over cricket. He is a Chiang Mai virgin who foolishly presumes that cricket is the biggest attraction on offer and is therefore clearly in need of some serious re-education.

Kevin Lloyd-Evans. Being new to the beautiful game, Civil Servant Kevin has naively indicated that he would play in case of an emergency; little realizing that he had just guaranteed himself a full complement of games. Upon being given out LBW recently and realizing that the umpire had made a mistake he inquired ‘don’t you know who I am, I’m Kevin Lloyd-Evans’ to which the umpire replied ‘well, in that case, you’re both out’.