Name: Rohith Yeluri
Nickname (and why): Row, Darren Dingle gave me this name (Just because it’s easy to say Row than Rooheath)
Place of Birth: Khammam, a beautiful town in Telangana State (India)
Taita Debut: 2015 for Premier Reserves
Highest Honors: Premier Reserves
Most Memorable Game: Game against Upper Hutt this season where I picked 9/9 (My best ever bowling figures)
Favorite holiday destination: Queenstown
Best advice you’ve received: Keep bowling those Out Swingers and don’t bowl slow deliveries. Almost everyone who fields behind the stumps gave me this advice.
Favorite Movie: Rockstar (Bollywood)
Favorite Musician: A R Rehaman & Ilayaraja
Sporting hero: Glenn McGrath
Favorite cricketer: Saurav Ganguly
Non-Sporting hero: My Dad
Best Taita memory: Obus scoring 140 on the same day I picked up 9 wickets
Biggest pest at Taita: Diz
Interesting fact about you: I was a top order batsman for most of my life and never batted below 6 before I started playing for Taita Premier Reserves (I bat at 9 or 10 here)
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Name: Patrick Smtih
Nickname (and why): Gluggsy – Glug Glug,
Place of Birth: Wellington
Taita Debut: 5th form for Senior 3
Highest Honors: Taita Prems
Most Memorable Game: When I hit a 6 at Naenae
Favorite holiday destination: Anywhere there’s Sun
Best advice you’ve received: “Just smash it for 6” – Andrew Sturt
Favorite Movie: Tangiwai
Favorite Musician: Dj The Flume – Mark Houghton showed me him
Sporting hero: Kevin Garnett
Favorite cricketer: Wiremu “Bill” Edwards
Non-Sporting hero: Patrick Houghton
Best Taita memory: Henry “S.Dot” Walsh antics at Rathkeale
Biggest pest at Taita: Sam McGavin
Interesting fact about you: When I was two I could name every All Black 1-15 at the time.
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