DAVID GOWER Q&A FROM 1980
This edited David Gower interview from the January 1980 issue of Australian Cricket magazine is one of the coolest of the Q & A genre. It reveals a cricketer with excellent taste in comedy, literature and holiday destinations.
Name: David Ivon Gower
Nickname: Lulu or Stoat, which is short for Stoat Strangler, a nom de plume I once used when ordering a meal in Adelaide. It comes from Monty Python.
Birth date: April 1. 1957
Height: 1.82m
Weight: 76kg
Eye color: Blue
Hair color: Fair
Marital status: Single
Do you smoke: No
Favorite dish: Roast beef or lamb with vegies
Favorite drink: Champagne or rum
Favorite TV show: Monty Python's Flying Circus
Favorite movie: Life of Brian
Fears: Being involved in any accident that would stop me playing cricket
Likes: Relaxing in female company over a meal
Dislikes: Intrusions on my privacy and getting up too early in the morning after a night game
Hobbies: Photography. I like taking photos of people. I would never take any of cricket too much wastage in cricket photography.
Favorite relaxation: Listening to music when I can. I like everything from classical through to contemporary music, without going as far as punk
Last book read: The Human Factor, by Graham Greene
Favorite music/singer: Al Stewart
Favorite holiday resort: Barbados. We stopped there for two weeks before coming to Australia on this current tour and only played two games in that time. For the rest we just went water skiing and swimming, and lay on the beach and drank rum
Own car: I haven't actually owned a car for the last couple of years, but I drive a Vauxhall that a local garage supplies for me
Favorite other sport: Squash
Favorite animal: Tigers and leopards
Favorite ground: Sydney
Superstitions: I like to wear the same gear that I last got runs in. If I'm having a lean trot I'll change my gear, or my bat, or something
Most respected rival: Viv Richards
Hardest hitting batsman: Gordon Greenidge
Hardest player to dismiss: Sunny Gavaskar
Hardest bowler to face: It depends on the wicket. If it's quick with bounce, then any good fast bowler will be difficult; if it's a turner, Bishan Bedi; if it's wet, 'Deadly Derek Underwood
Favorite all-time player: Gary Sobers, Barry Richards, Graham Pollock. I didn't see Pollock play that much, but every time I did, he got a hundred
First side: Marlborough House School under-11s
Ambitions: My sole ambition is to keep on enjoying cricket and to set myself up well enough through cricket to maintain a decent living