Player Profile: Neil Shearer Age: 35
Position in Team: Captain / All Rounder
Club Member Since: 2006
Nickname: Sheddy, Shearer and various unprintable ones
Bowling: Right Arm Medium
Batting: Right Handed Middle / Lower Order
Previous Clubs: Llantwit Fardre, Miskin, Cardiff Bay Barbarians
Best Batting: 30 odd can’t remember who for or who it was against, but it was in Penarth (yes it is always a belter of a pitch)!
Best Batting Glamorgan Centurions: 25 versus Cardiff University 2006
Best Bowling: 4 for 2 when playing for my school (does that count?)
Best Bowling Glamorgan Centurions: 4 for 11 versus Cardiff Bay Barbarians 2009
Most Memorable Moment Playing: Playing on a county quality wicket many moons ago in Abergavenney for Llantwit Fardre
Most Memorable Moment (Other): I can't remember!
Favourite Drink: Um……..depends on my mood!
Favourite Food: Depends on what I have been drinking!
Cricketing Hero: Ian Botham
Glamorgan Centurion player you most admire and why: As skipper I can have no favourites...........
Music you’d most like to walk out to bat to: Vertigo by U2
Cricket Ambition: Get a "five for" and score a fifty - Preferably in the same game....oh look a flying pig!!!
Statistics of completed seasons (for current season go to averages)
Year | Apps | Inns | NO's | Runs | Ave | Best | Ovrs | Mdns | Runs | Wckt | Ave | S/R | Best |
2006 | 5 | 5 | 2 | 47 | 15.67 | 25 | 12 | 1 | 56 | 5 | 11.20 | 15.60 | 3 for 6 |
2007 | 8 | 4 | 4 | 29 | - | 10no | 32 | 2 | 132 | 16 | 8.25 | 12.00 | 4 for 17 |
2008 | 6 | 3 | 1 | 14 | 7.00 | 9 | 28 | 2 | 106 | 6 | 17.67 | 28.00 | 2 for 10 |
2009 | 8 | 3 | 1 | 8 | 4.00 | 6 | 26 | 1 | 145 | 8 | 18.13 | 20.00 | 4 for 11 |
Total | 27 | 15 | 8 | 98 | 14.00 | 25 | 98 | 6 | 439 | 35 | 12.54 | 16.80 | 4 for 11 |