2009 Team Photo

Mike Terrington

The Chairman of The Gloucestershire Gipsies Cricket Club and the first non-public schoolboy to achieve this honour.
A non-spinning, non-turning off-spinner, who has yet to master the art of flight and guile – flights of fancy a-plenty but again not much guile.

Paul Drew

A leg-spinner relying solely on flight and guile but too often it is the flight of the ball, as it soars over the boundary, that endangers the spectators. He sports the Gipsy blazer with pride especially on Scottish racecourses, where he specialises in winning the best turned-out award.

Bill Johnson

A stylish bat, who played for Durham in his prime, but that was a long time ago now. It will be a new experience for Bill here alone in Thailand without his room-mate, soul-mate and everything-else-mate Briers to hold his hand.  Anyhow Bill’s a new man now quietly spending every weekend in his Cheltenham apartment.

Graham Clarke

A Yorkshireman to the core both on and off the field, who has found his retirement home in the idyllic Cotswold village of Bibury. Graham was an old-fashioned banker who had the good sense to retire with his millions prior to the financial world crashing all around him.

Ben Gannon

A former Gloucestershire and Middlesex opening bowler who now plays his cricket for Frocester, the leading Premier League Club in the County. A fitness fanatic with the most stunning of bronzed bodies.  Ben now works full-time (a shock to his system!) at Wycliffe College.

James Shackleton

Another stalwart of Frocester Cricket Club and a product of Cheltenham College, where his cricketing skills were finely tuned by Messrs Briers and Stovold.  It appears that not only did he heed Mr Briers’ advice on the field but he also seems to have followed his lead off the field – silly boy!

Cavan Ditchman

Yet another Frocester Cricket Club star but, unlike most of his colleagues, he was not born and bred in Gloucester but his home is somewhat further afield in Queensland no less.  He returns to Australia each winter to pursue his banking career but somehow persuades his employers to come over to England each summer to play more cricket – talk about having the best of both worlds!

Matthew Obst

This time not a current Frocester player but very much an ex one having starred as their overseas’ player a few seasons ago.  Matthew is a chum back home of Cavan Ditchman so this year for the first time ever we have 2 Australians in our midst!  Perhaps the soon-to-be married Mr. Morrison will not be missed as much as we thought!

Chris Coley

The Yesnowaitsorries (Chris is their leader) achieved their maiden half-century of winners at Wincanton in November and then 20 minutes later a double across the card occurred as Nudge and Nurdle became their 51st winner at Sandown.  And then in January on a Saturday at Cheltenham they had their first winner there at odds of 100-1 ……. Did it really, really happen???