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Playing Role: Keeper-batsman |
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Batting Style: MCC-coaching-book-alike |
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Bowling Style: Hardly used medium pace |
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Wicket keeper |
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Superstars Debut: 2016 |
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Career stats, as at the end of the 2017 Season |
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23 |
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32no |
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Fans of mid-90s hip hop classics will know why George Warren (or Warren G)
is known as the Regulator (and not because he works for a quango starting with the letters O and F - although the letters
F and O have been known to cross the odd Superstar's lips). Unfortunately George is too young and/or has too poor a taste
in mid-90s music to know the origins of this nickname himself. When advised to 'regulate that length G' from the outfield
once he presumed it was just helpful advice and fair comment on his bowling. |
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In fact bowling isn't really what George does at all, or at least not at all well,
being as he is a proper wicketkeeper-batsman. Perhaps he is even a bit more of an Alec Stewart-like batsman-wicketkeeper, although
his skills in both departments are fairly evenly matched. Due to having a geriatric wicketkeeper-skipper of course, our bowlers
don't always get to enjoy George's glovemanship, and he therefore joins the long list of those Superstars (W Walker, R Smith,
S Meyler being some and S Wonder, S Gundry's dog and G Boycott's mum's stick o' rhubarb being others) who are better 'keepers
than Barry but don't always get to 'keep. |
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As a big fan of Worcestershire County Cricket Club, George is well used
to things going Pear-shaped, and as such fits right in at the Superstars. He is also well used to having heaps of abuse
piled on him on the sports field every Saturday afternoon and often on midweek evenings too. Popular phrases levelled at
him include 'are you blind?', 'you should have gone to Specsavers' and 'do you even know the rules of this game?', as well as the more imaginative 'w****r', 'c**t' and 'absolute f***ing idiot'. And that's just from playing a lot of village cricket.
But George is also a semi-professional football referee and linesman too. |
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Outside of his extensive sporting and travelling commitments,
George is also an occasional Transport civil servant, having most recently 'worked' on building a high speed
railway from London to the Midlands. Rumours that this was designed purely to get him back to his beloved
Avoncroft CC and away from the standards of the Superstars as quickly as possible are greatly
exaggerated of course. |
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As a new recruit George is yet to join any of the
stats clubs, although we're expecting to see his batting and fielding feature in coming years. |
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