| Name |
John
Powell |
| Alias |
Welsh, The Velvet
Fog, The
Voice, The Swing |
| Born |
18 March
1971 |
| Birth
place |
Newport,
S.Wales |
| Star
sign |
Pisces |
| Role |
MLA
& LHB |
| Most
memorable match |
Flippers
debut...... |
| Worst
match |
Vs New
Forest, August 93, Ferret broke my thumb |
| Cricketing
heroes |
Viv
Richards, Malcolm Marshall |
| Greatest
influence |
Viv Richards, Cabernet
Shiraz |
| Current
players admired |
Ricky Ponting, Shane Warne, Jacques Kallis,
Simon Jones |
| Young
cricketers for the future |
Cup's
girls, already showing more promise than 80% of the current squad |
| Favourite
ground |
Hoglands
Park, plenty of character and dry sherry |
| Least
favourite ground |
Wickham,
the pitch is shit |
| Cricketing
ambitions |
Double
figures |
| Main
complain about cricket |
Wales don't play
England enough |
| Who
are you closest friends within the game |
The Ferret, when I can
drag him off some dirty piece of bus station skank. |
| Most
embarrassing moment |
Walking
out of my front door on a daily basis |
| What
would you be doing now if you were not in cricket |
21st century Rat Pack
member |
| Which
2 people outside the game would you most like to meet |
Elvis,
Frank Sinatra |
| Who
outside cricket would you least like to meet |
Michael
Portillo, what a tosser |
| What
do you never leave home without |
My devastating
wit |
| Who
would you have liked to have been in a former life |
Dean Martin |
| Any
superstitions |
I always
put my pants on underneath my trousers |
| Hobbies
and interests |
Hiding and verbally
abusing the English |
| Most
prized possessions |
Viv's
autograph |
| Other
sports or sports people followed |
Cardiff
City, the fortunes of the Welsh rugby team |
| Favourite
TV program |
The
Simpson's, Futurama |
| Favourite
film |
Pulp Fiction,
Oceans 11 (the original) |
| Favourite
actor/actress |
Samuel L Jackson, Eddie Murphy,
Julian 'Luke Skywalker' Hill |
| If you
were given £1000 to buy clothes, what would you buy |
Lobster tails, and piss the rest up
against a wall somewhere in upper Swansea |
| Favourite
food |
Indian,
Greek, Mexican and any lamb that I've just roasted. |
| Favourite
holiday place |
Barry
Island, Antigua, and anywhere that the Ferret's brother isn't |
| Favourite
hotel |
The
Stanmore Hotel |
| Newspapers
and magazines read |
Hansard |
| Favourite
author |
Jeffery
Archer, Naomi Campbell, Barbara Cartland |
| Future
career |
Jazz singer, bard or
travelling minstrel |
| What
frightens you most |
The words 'last
orders' |
| Motto
in life |
So many freaks,
not nearly enough circuses' |
