Full Name: Daniel Robert Wilkins
Date of birth: 4th November 1973
Place of birth: Newmarket
Left or right handed: Right Handed
Nickname: Wilkie or Banks
Favourite memory of playing for Haverhill: Too many but here are 3
Getting very drunk late after a Sunday game with Mick in our first season and falling a sleep in the toilet only to wake up at 5.50am, locked in the clubhouse and having to break out and get home, changed and catch my train to work by 7.30am.
Swiss Tony, our former grounds man and umpire when in Division 4, stopping a game at Harwich as he needed to go to the toilet but instead of going to the pavilion he went to the other side of the ground and propped himself up and went in a dog bin!!!!
In the same game he also fell of his shooting stick seat when at square leg as the bowler realised the ball.
Party in the park during one of the cricket tours including borrowing a motor bike with Steve T (up to the walk home anyway, thanks lads!!!!!)
Best score for Haverhill: 83 against Brockley.
Best bowling figures for Haverhill: Not known for my bowling but very underused little off spinners - midweek verse Weston Colville (3-14 odd) & weekend verse Brockley (2-36) – not been allowed to bowl since.
Player at Haverhill who you would most like to have an ice bath with: Anyone but Godders!!!!!!! – Got to be one of the thin lads as would have to be a big bath!!!
Person you would most like to face at Haverhill: Shane Warne
Fav fielding position: point or covers (aren’t I supposed to say wicket keeper??)
Fav hitting zone: Square cut through point or lofted straight drive
Favourite…?
Colour: Red & blue
Number: 8
Sport: Cricket & Golf
Cricket team: Surrey
Cricket player: Alec Stewart
Drink: Chilean Merlot or a good quality larger
Food: Can not go far wrong with a good medium/rare steak with all the trimmings.
Word/phrase: “thank you very much” in an Elvis style
or
“Surely you can’t be serious?” I’m deadly serious, and don’t call me Shirley”
Song of all time: Unable to give just one so narrowed down to 3 –
Turn back the clock by Johnny Hates jazz
If I can dream by Elvis
Town Called Malice by The Jam
Artist/band: Elvis, the King of Rock & Roll (“thank you very much”)
TV programme: 24 & Soccer AM
Weakness: Alcohol, especially Guinness as it helped me to be twice the man I use to be, literally.
What is your ultimate fear: Being in the shower when Godders walks in or forgetting to wear my box and getting hit in that area.
Who Would You Want to be Stuck in an Elevator With: Belinda Carlisle (back in the late 80’s) or Kelly Brook (obviously not for the conversation)
Use three words to describe yourself? Funny– modest – drunk