
HUGO THURSTON
Rugged restaurateur with acting chops
Debut - 2001
LHB; profligate left-arm wristspin
Memory Lane: cover driving sixes in order to get to a wedding on time. Last GCC bowler to take 100 wickets in a season.

JAMES SCHNEIDER
ex-Captain, activist, Steyn impersonator
Debut -
RHB, RFM
Memory Lane: Scoring 171*, sadly not for Gaieties; roaring at dropped catches (most games); International Chess Olympiad 2022

SHOMIT DUTTA
Classicist, playwright, averages-topper
Debut -
RHB, OB, LB, HB, MBE
Memory Lane: 3 hundreds in a week more than once. Multiple drops at Abbots Langley occasioning cries of 'Dutta, Dutta, hands like butter' from local urchins.

TIM SCHNEIDER
Captain, comedian, actor, all-rounder, futurist
RHB, OB, Wicket-keeper
Memory Lane: Increasing proportion of club's best ever knocks down to him; GCC's longest ever duck (approx 1 hour) v Heartaches. Century every 2.5 innings.

ROBBIE
RHB, RFM
Memory Lane: luckless bat-beating brilliance v SOA 2022

OTIS INGRAMS
Leather man, artist, six-hitter
Debut
RHB, occasional wicket keeper
Memory Lane: plonking the late Moat of Willesden over his head for a clutch of maximums; precocious hundred at Sidcup. 164 v Stage in 2016.

NICK COWLEY
Vintage opening bowler, drives sponsored car; known for semiotics of the cricket sweater
Debut -
RHB, RFM
Memory Lane: marathon spell at Hampstead; bowling out Ed Smith at Lord's.
MATTHEW BURTON
Bowler (Newton's cradle), chauffeur, actual thespian
Debut - 70s?
LHB, RM
Memory Lane: ....

JT
Ex-pro, almost, lethal between the wickets
Debut
RHB
Memory Lane: maiden hundred at Roydon

JACK KELLEHER
Paceman, philhellene
Debut -
RHB, RF
Memory Lane: blowing away Oxford Downs in 2015 with proper seam bowling.

RUFUS THURSTON
Restaurateur, all-rounder, intimidator
Debut -
RHB, RMF
Memory Lane: throwing ball 100 yards before and after matches; unbeaten 50 at Lords + huge six to win. Dropped no catches between 1990 and 2014.

INIGO THOMAS
Man of Letters
Debut - this side of the Enlightenment
RHB, RM
Memory Lane: seeing off soon-to-be professional fast bowler Jack Brooks at Tiddington; wearing a dress shirt and no helmet doing it.

DANIEL PETRIDES
Green Seamer, barman
Debut -
RHB, RFM
Memory Lane: POTM performance v Nomads in 2022

Oliver Thicknesse
Ovidian
Debut 2022
RHB, RM
Memory Lane: playing with his brother Ed at Hampstead on Coronation Bank Holiday

MIKHAIL SEN
All-rounder
Debut -
Memory Lane: see IMDB