Gary Davison

Gary Davison

Gary Davison: Debut: 2006.

Davison is in his second season with the club and has invoked comparisons with Indian legend Mohammed Azharuddin. In part this is because Davison, like the great Azha, is an elegant, wristy player who uses a light bat and never hits the ball for six.

However, it is also because that as Azharuddin’s defence in the face of match-fixing allegations was not exactly convincing some of Davison’s excuses for missing games are open to question. Davison has made himself unavailable for a variety of reasons ranging from stag dos to weddings, moving house to installing kitchen cabinets, and simply needing a rest. While some players would go through hell or high water to take the field for Offley, Davison is more likely to be battening down the hatches and hunkering under the bed at the first sign of a shower.

On those rare occasions when he does make it on to the field – and obviously he’d like nothing more than to play every game but when your puppy steps on a pebble you obviously have to drop out – Davison has the potential to star with the bat. Despite his lack of power and inability to clear the boundary ropes he runs superbly between the wickets and has the talent to place the ball into gaps and shares the title with Nathan Brodie as the best player never to score a century for the club.

Davison is an outstanding fielder and has the ability to make keeping wicket appear effortless. He has pulled off some remarkable catches in the outfield but also dropped a sitter at Crawley Green in 2006, thereby earning the unwanted nickname of the Man who Dropped the Catch that lost the League.

Ouch..