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Barry Gigg is Mr Superstars. There's virtually nothing he hasn't done for the club. Whether it's nurturing young talent, massaging sore limbs,
displaying a rather unnatural knowledge of the rail network or giving lifts to Mike Taylor, "Mr Superstars" has done it all. |
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His official roles include club kit carrier and treasurer for the club accounts which rumour has it, Mr Superstars has been regularly siphoning
to fund his recent early retirement in order to spend more time with his award winning train set. |
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Mr Superstars is also the skipper of the club; a role he temporarily took on in 1999, but one he has never been allowed to relinquish - in large
part because no-one else wants to do it. |
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Skippering with a paternalistic calm, Mr Superstars marshals the club's eclectic personalities with a deft hand - the veil of tranquillity only
occasionally lifting to shriek 'hit the ball and run' at those batsmen failing to employ a tip and run policy. |
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Mr Superstars himself successfully deploys a tip and run policy at sports day proving that 6-aside cricket isn't all bish, bash, bosh but
can actually involve a lot of running - and in doing so has led the club to a decade of unparalleled success, and more importantly depriving Dodgers of a single win in the process. |
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Just for being Mr Superstars, Mr Superstars has the prestigious honour of handing out the cricketing awards at the club's annual social.
Year after year Mr Superstars performs this role with gusto and year after year the rest of us have absolutely no-idea what's he saying. Cue arm waving as he points frantically at
club winners to come forward. |
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On tour Mr Superstars can often be found with ordnance survey map in hand as he leads the tour party on long search and rescue missions
to find his missing black pants. Like his running between the wickets Mr Superstars is quickly found several miles ahead of his exhausted loyal followers as he sets an unforgiving pace.
Cue more arm waving as Mr Superstars gesticulates wildly at some mythical oasis in the far off distance. |
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Mr Superstars can't bowl for toffee and can barely throw further than his own voice. But he can bat. As the club record run scorer, Mr Superstars
holds the staggering statistic of scoring all of his almost 9,000 runs without scoring a single boundary. By scoring all his runs between the wickets he also holds the less impressive statistic of
accounting for 99% of the club's entire number of run outs. For the sheer comedic value this invariably involves, we wouldn't want it any other way. |
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Mr Superstars, we salute you! |
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Barry has made the most appearences (482 at the end of 2017), taken the most fielding dismissals
(248, almost 100 ahead of 2nd place) and scored the most runs (8,862, almost 4k more than 2nd place) in the history of the club. There are
no more records he can break (face facts on the bowling Barry) but we look forward to the 500th appearence and 9,000th run in 2018. |
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*This was agreed on a "temporary" basis one year only basis in 1999. |
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