James Schneider (captain) is one of Shomit Dutta's many recruits to Gaieties CC, joining the club shortly after his younger brother Tim in 2005. Initially combining leg spin with enthusiastic fielding and a strong throwing arm, he has undergone two cricketing transformations. First, in 2013 he converted into a seam bowling allrounder, taking the new ball with some success. Second, as a chronic shoulder injury put paid to bowling, he performs an impression of a number of early-to-mid 90s England batsman, adding an inability to throw overarm to fiddling with field placements and occasional but inconsistent run getting. 

Tim Schneider (vice captain) made his debut for the Gaieties when he was 13 and very small for his age (he later grew). He didn’t keep well – John Gleasure, a terrifyingly fast leg spinner, provoked a torpor of the soul and also many byes – and, batting at 11, was run out for zero. He has played ever since, often alongside his brother, James, conceding byes and registering low scores but never again so terrified by a wrist spinner. An allrounder, his off-spinning career briefly blossomed, durably plateaued and suddenly ended (arthritic fingers). He now just keeps wicket and bats – he loves batting – and very occasionally bowls bad seam, in a range of imitations. (Mark Ealham is a favourite, but the returns are really very poor.) A thorough scorer and an overcelebrator, he sends many emails to the club list, receiving fewer replies than he’d like. Nevertheless, he continues.

Matthew ‘Harry’ Burton (Chairman) is an actor/director who joined Gaieties CC in 1981. He bowls seam-up and, never having been quick, probably bowls today (2021) at roughly the same stolid pace as he did in 1981, but with greater accuracy and more consistent success. Heroics include taking 7-17 against Harry Baldwin’s XI at Tadworth, a game in which Gaieties were victorious despite our fielders including a player’s barefooted wife and a drunk who'd wandered mistakenly into the field from the nearby pub. Proud to succeed Roger "Dodgy” Davidson as club Chairman, Matthew remains genuinely enthusiastic about playing for as many years as possible, while constantly scouring rehearsal rooms for youthful recruits. 

Nick Cowley  Currently Treasurer but has held every office of the club at one time or another. Veteran of calamitous tour of Barrie Island and more successful and longer lasting ones to Ampleforth and India. Metronomic opening bowler and long time scorer since debut in 1989 against Cranleigh. I have probably played nearly 500 games for the club so individual games and performance become a blur. I have taken a few wickets over the years and got a couple of good players out. I am the Broad to the Chairman’s Anderson. Ageing bowlers who still love turning out on Sundays even if we are unable to walk for the subsequent few days.