Who IS Wickman?

A question Wickman often gets asked is "Who IS Wickman?" He often looks evasive and suggests it might be Keith. Or Jelly. Or even Clarky. But the truth is stranger than these fictions. Wickman answers this season's 15 questions to give you some insight.

Name: Wickman
Wicknames: Wickman

1. When did you join the Wick and why? 1863. I was living very close to the Wick (in fact i was closest to the Wick) and was personal friends with the De Crespignys. They decided to establish a cricket club and I didn't have anything planned for the Summer.
2. Best knock for the Wick? Was seeing it like an Association Football back on the 1926 Sussex Tour. Sadly bats were not what they are today and I couldn't get the ball off the square. Scored 17 in four hours, all singles
3. Best bowling? Have never been brought on despite sending signals to various Captains. Was almost brought on in 1945 just after the war when we were short of able bodied players
4. A catch you remember... Gatesy's off the last ball against Old Sluts a few years back in the dark. Clarky was keeping and said for the only time in his life he was hoping the bat didn't feather it to him because he couldn't see the ball.
5. What do you do in the Winter? Go through old scorebooks. Polish old balls with beeswax in time for nets. Whiten my pads. Glue the green pimples back onto my batting gloves. Marvellous stuff this Superglue.
6. Who's your favourite cricketer? Tell us why... No doubt about it, Ian Botham. As they say he used to empty the bars at cricket grounds at a time when the rest of the England team were filling them up.
7. Who do you admire at the Wick? Why? Keith. Turned it round from the dark days of the early 2000s.
8. Best International cricket moment? Headingly 1981 on the Monday. Simply unbelievable.
9. Favourite DBW tea element? At the moment it's the fruit slices. Can't get enough of them. Saw them fresh out of the Mr Kipling wrapper before the last game. The moistness was like a Wick deck in April. Superb.
10. Wick buddy? The Rev de Crespigny
11. Favourite oppo and why?
12. What one thing do you still want to achieve in cricket? Would like to see the Wick reach a Premier Division in Surrey. Which team will get there first? The 3s and 4s are a season away from it...
13. Film + Book + Music? Film: Any of the new dangled talkies Book: have you GOT a Kindle? What's all that about? Music: I'm a big fan of Hibby and the Eskimos
14. Favourite Wick moment? Seeing the look on Mickey McMahon's face after some of the younger lads found Frank Henry Bean where I'd hidden him in the score box after we got raddled at his wake...
15. Favourite crisps? My body is a temple