Getting Wick With... Sunday Skipper Graham Smith

Smith's Favourite Crisp...

He's one half of the new Sunday captaincy pairing, Dad to the best Smith bowler in the club Jack and legendary quiz specialist... but just who is Graham Smith?

1 Nickname(s): Smudger, Twatface


2 Highest Score for HWRCC: That’ll be in 2010 when I scored some top grade Crystal Meth and got so high that I was convinced I was Jesus Christ and could feed the whole of Hampton Wick with a DBW mini doughnut and a Tuna sarnie. I couldn’t. I got the munchies and ate them myself

3 Best Bowling for HWRCC: No idea, but I did get 10 for 43 for St James’s v Goring in 1985 but I never like to mention it ( well no more than once a week)

4 Favourite Away Ground: There used to be a cricket pitch at St Francis Mental Hospital in Haywards Heath and in the 70s /early 80s St James‘s would play the staff – mostly Irish Hurling players – and we would regularly be interrupted by patients, haring across the pitch, usually stark bollock naked and being chased by the nurses – true.

5 Favourite Food: Baked beans on toast with a clove of garlic and butter squeezed into the beans. Oh Man…. But be careful of side effects (violent flatulence and bad breath).

6 Favourite Singer/Band: I quite like that new band made up of The Hairy Bikers and Kate Bush but can’t remember what they ended up calling themselves.

7 Favourite Movie: “When Harry met Sally and introduced her to Chedward” with hilarious consequences

8 Favourite Book: “50 things to do and make whilst fielding in the slips to Tongy”

9 Favourite Club: Mashie niblick

10 Favourite Crisp: Quentin

11 Favourite DBW Sandwich: Hm, that’s a bit like asking “who’s your favourite Nazi?”

12 Favourite Quote: “Don’t worry chaps, Keith is in next” or “get out of my f****** kitchen with those studs”

13 Childhood Sports Hero: Tony Greig – top all rounder like me.

14 Best Wick Moment: about 3 weeks ago in clubhouse bar – having a refreshing iced drink after a gruelling match

15 Worst Wick Moment: About 3 weeks ago, discovering that ice in drink was yellow.