Player profile

Full name Michael Philip Chase
Born East Horsley, December 25, 1960
Nickname Wild Goose, Chasey
Batting style Right-hand top-order
Bowling style Slow left-armer
Height 5 ft 11 in
Clubs Blackheath, MCC
School XI 1978 to 1979
OC Career 1980 to date

Batting and fielding averages

	Mat		Inns		NO		HS		Runs		Ave		50		100		Ct		St
OCCC	104		91		12		159		2730		34.56		17		3		30		0

Bowling averages

	Overs		Mdns		Runs		Wkts		Ave		Best		5WI		SR		Econ
OCCC	401.2		65		1641		75		21.88		6-35		2		32.1		4.1

Notes

Major Tours: Kenya 2001, Australia 2003, India 2007

Profile

A quick look at the statistics would give the impression that Mike Chase is an allrounder, but he is not. His career can be divided into two distinct halves. In the first, from his schooldays through to the late 1980s, he was a useful slow left-armer. Although he tended to push the ball through, he was in his element on hard, dry wickets and on his day his brisk, flat style was almost unplayable. Like all bowlers, he harboured the belief that he was a batsman but few others agreed. In 1984 he arrived for the cricket week demanding to be given a chance to prove he could bat. He was - his three innings lasted a total of four balls and, with the hysterical laughter of his team-mates ringing in his ears, his dream appeared to be over. He then disappeared for a few years, announcing his reincarnation as a hard-hitting opening batsmen with a blistering century in the 1991 Cricket World Trophy. Throughout the 1990s he scored freely, both for the OCCC and Blackheath, and although he did not appear as often as would have been liked, his presence usually meant runs. The only downside was that Chase Mk II bowled like a batsman, and experimentation with bowling fast-medium rarely brought results. A first-class gully fielder with a tendency to rabbit, in his (ample) spare time he is a part-time computer wiz, part-time flautist who seems to be permanently about to go on holiday or have just come back from one.

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