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Name: Fergie Bradbeer
Date of Birth: 07/11/197?
 
Joined Bideford in: when i was 10
 
Status (Current Player/Retired etc): current
Previous Clubs: none
Batting Style: different
Best Batting: 111*
Bowling Style: bertie basset - all sorts
 
Best Bowling: 8 for something i think. Against south devon back in 1993 perhaps
Representative Cricket: devon u-16\'s for two years!
 
Music: someone described it as sounding like a fax machine.
 
Food: Veggie- Curry
 
Travel: every week
 
Best Cricketing Moment(s): scoring my first hundred is a pretty big thing, but I value the 8 wickets i took back when i was a fast long haired bowler.
Batting with my brother Peter was always fun especially when we started taking crazy runs and getting the fielding team really wound up.
But i think my record breaking north devon league 10 wicket partnership with Nigel Gittins against a Braunton side at their near prime.
Worst Cricketing Moment(s)/Funny Stories These are all 'just have to be there moments'. But do you know who the drivers are?
Sitting in the back of many a car traveling to away games. One driver claiming to have plenty of room for 3 on a regular 2 lane part of the road to plymouth, or the same driver driving all the way back home with one foot as he had cramp, and still getting the ton up on the straight before beaford.
Another one, driving back from plymouth and only when a trackor drove past did the driver realise that a turning was required.

The last and best, tale is of driving up Bideford High street when the gannet pub was still open. The drive was renound for his orange/yellow opel sports car. Now the car had been growling and sounding ruff/like a boy racer car, and the driver was very pleased by this as he cruised round bideford dropping me an other colts across bideford. So driving up the high street and passed the gannet growling, just passed the turning the growling turned to a clunck as the exauhst fell off.
Most people would go 'oh sh*t', but our driver went 'ah well at least it was not out side the pub'. he then climbed out and strung the exauhst back to the car and carried on going.
 
Anything Else Is there any better place to play cricket than Westward Ho! on a sunny day?
 
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