User:Mike Blerkom

Mike Blerkom is an opening Batsmen and part time round arm sling bowler for Basildon & Pitsea CC who currently play in the Essex Cricket League Division 1. Known to his team mates as YO-YO Mike spends most of the season being switched between the first and second XI's and is often dropped or selected without any justification. Mikes highest saturday league score is 17 but his amazing Sunday Ibex batting average of 213 often gets toungues wagging about a possible return to form. In July 2006 after much media attention surrounding Blerkom, Basildon & Pitsea CC released a single for Comic Relief, a cover version of the Oke Cokie, containing the lines "you put your Blerkom in, Your Blerkom out, In Out In Out you shake him all about, you wait until theres bans and then you call him up, thats what its all about..DUCK!!" Though Blerkom refused to comment on what was a successful hit. it is thought that he was dissapointed at being exploited and even contemplated turning up for nets and learning to play straight as an official protest. Blerkoms bowling has often been ridiculed by the local press with one journalist stating that in the delivery stride his bowling arm is "lower then a snakes armpits". Blerkom successfully sued a national newspaper in june 2007 for false identity after an action picture claiming to be of him bowling was in fact a photograph of league umpire George Salmon signaling four.