Name: Adam Taylor
Nickname: Adam, AJT, Tails, Psycho (St Anne’s)
Current or past player: current – close to past.
What sparked your interest in cricket: Watching my dad play village cricket & a book from the local library ‘how to play cricket’ by Ian Botham.
What format do you prefer T20, 50-overs, County or Test match: All formats but Test cricket is the ultimate. Watching England in the West Indies- life highlight.
Cricketing hero: Graeme Hick, Alan Lamb, Robin Smith, Graham Gooch, Andrew Flintoff, Kevin Pieterson.
Favourite current (professional) cricketer: J Roy, O Morgan, B Stokes, J Root.
Most admired/best player played with:
Flintoff, Austin, Adams, Harwood, Davies, Baptiste, Griffin, Linde, Sharp, Walters, Stanbury, Holt
Best captain: P Lorenzini
Most formidable opponent: Friedel de Wet (bowler)
Favourite away ground: Netherfield (northern league), Roe Green ?, Westleigh GMCL
Favourite/most memorable match you’ve played in: Joined Prestwich 2014, 2 time league winners 2014 & 2016, two promotions, 2 cup runners-up 2014 & 2019 and 2 cup wins 2017 & 2019. Highlight, needing one wicket to get maximum points and win the league to beat Glossop in 2016, we played Swindon Moorside. Close game looked like we would get beat. Chance, drop catch by Robbo, overthrow, I was backing up and turned and threw the stumps down – scenes.
Personal highlight/Champagne moment: Scoring first hundred for Prestwich in 2016 against West at home. Part of leadership group between 2014-19: 4 trophies 2 promotions.
Funniest moment/s in cricket: Pete team talks, chants after games, Oli and Ste having a picture with div 2 cup at Woodbank.
Best way to relax after the game: Pizza and gas
Do/did you have any cricketing superstitions: Don’t move if things are going well, always change cricket shirt at tea, throw downs with the same person before game (Jack Doyle).
What will you miss most in cricket during the enforced break: Everything
Is there anything you’d change about the game: Enforce points deduction for unnecessary and continuous sledging & no mankading.
If you could invite 3 cricketing celebrities (players, presenters, commentators) round for dinner, who would they be and why:
Ant and Dec & J Klopp
