Darren Shane Berry (born 10 December 1969) is a former Australian cricketer who was known for his sharp skills as a wicketkeeper with Victoria in the Sheffield Shield and ING Cup domestic competitions. He is currently the head coach of the South Australia cricket team.

Cricket career[link]

Making his first-class debut for South Australia in the 1989/90 season, Berry moved back to his native Victoria to play with the Bushrangers in the 1990/91 season, and enjoyed a large degree of success. One of the high points of his career came in the 1997 Ashes tour, when he was selected to replace the injured Adam Gilchrist as the team's second-string wicketkeeper. Unfortunately, Berry did not represent Australia in a Test match on that tour.

In 2003/04, Berry ended his career on a high, captaining Victoria to a Pura Cup title against Queensland.

In terms of pure keeping ability, Berry was rated extremely highly, particularly his ability "keeping up" both to leg-spinner Shane Warne and to medium (and even fast-medium) paced bowlers. Warne, his Victorian teammate, said that "Darren Berry up to the stumps has probably been the best keeper that I've ever seen in my time ... I really wish he did get the opportunity to show how good a keeper he was, with a baggy green cap playing for Australia."^[1] Berry has often talked about his leg-side stumping off the bowling of paceman Paul Reiffel as one of his best achievements.

The reasons why Berry did not play for Australia included not only Australia's entrenched and effective keeper, Ian Healy, but his below par batting ability. Berry averaged only 21.58 in first-class cricket, with four centuries and 11 fifties in a long career, compared with Healy's 27 at Test level and 30 at first-class level, and well below the batting numbers of Healy's replacement, Adam Gilchrist. Berry has been a long-time critic of Gilchrist, often making light of what he considers poor keeping ability, and being able to get by on his batting prowess. He criticised Gilchrist's inclusion in Richie Benaud's Greatest XI, saying it was "an insult to Ian Healy, Rod Marsh, Don Tallon and the greatest of them all, the Englishman Alan Knott."^[2] He once said, "I would suggest Gilly misses a chance in most Test matches ... but it's all forgotten when he smashes a century with the bat".^[3]

Post-cricket career[link]

In 2002, preparing for his retirement from cricket, Berry was the runner for the St Kilda Football Club, for which he played at Under 19 level, a team which he passionately supports. That year he also took up boundary riding for Triple M before he graduated to the role of match-day play-by-play commentator on matches following his retirement from cricket in 2004. Berry was later released by Triple M.

Today, in addition to his role with K-Rock, Berry writes a column in The Sunday Age and coaches the Carlton Cricket Club in the Victorian Premier League. He is currently the head coach of the Southern Redbacks, South Australia's state cricket team.

Other[link]

Steve Waugh has commented in his autobiography that Darren Berry is the best player in Australia to not wear the baggy green hat in a test match.

Darren Berry's nickname is "Chuck" after the American rock and roll singer.

References[link]

External links[link]

• Player profile: Darren Berry from ESPNcricinfo

Paul Reiffel

Personal information
Full name	Paul Ronald Reiffel
Born	(1966-04-19) 19 April 1966 (age 46) Box Hill, Australia
Nickname	Pistol
Batting style	Right-handed
Bowling style	Right–arm fast–medium
International information
National side	Australia
Domestic team information
Years	Team
1988–2002	Victoria
2000	Nottinghamshire
Umpiring information
ODIs umpired	11 (2009–Present)
T20Is umpired	7 (2009–Present)
Career statistics
Competition	Tests	ODIs
Matches	35	92
Runs scored	955	503
Batting average	26.52	13.97
100s/50s	–/6	–/1
Top score	79*	58
Balls bowled	6403	4732
Wickets	104	106
Bowling average	26.96	29.20
5 wickets in innings	5	–
10 wickets in match	–	–
Best bowling	6/71	4/13
Catches/stumpings	15/–	25/–
Source: Cricinfo, 1 February 2012

Paul Ronald Reiffel (born 19 April 1966, Box Hill, Victoria) is a former Australian cricketer who played in 35 Tests and 92 ODIs from 1992 to 1999. He was part of Australia's victorious 1999 World Cup team. After retirement he became a First Class cricket umpire.^[1]

Playing career[link]

Reiffel's career best bowling figures of 6-71 came at Edgbaston in 1993. Throughout his career he took 104 wickets at 26.96 in 35 Tests, taking 5 or more wickets in an innings five times. An accurate bowler whose main attacking weapon was seam bowling,^[1] Reiffel was a more than handy batsman. While limited in his shotmaking ability, he had a solid defence. Reiffel was a Victorian cricket captain who was notorious for declaring the Victoria innings closed in 2001 with Michael Klinger on 99 not out.^[2]

Umpiring career[link]

Reiffel made his first class umpiring debut in the 2004/2005 season after first umpiring in Melbourne grade cricket in 2002. Reiffel joined the Cricket Australia National Umpire's Panel in the 2005/2006 season.^[3][4] He later became a member of the International Cricket Council International Panel of Umpires and Referees^[5] and made his international on-field umpiring debut in a One Day International match between Australia and New Zealand on 6 February 2009.^[6]

Family[link]

Reiffel's father, Ron Reiffel, played for the Richmond Football Club. His grandfather, Lou Reiffel, was also an Australian rules footballer and played for both Melbourne and South Melbourne.^[7]

Paul Reiffel's Test career batting performance.

References[link]

1. ^ ^{a b} "Players and Officials - Paul Reiffel". Cricinfo. http://content-aus.cricinfo.com/ci/content/player/7326.html. Retrieved 2009-03-04. 
2. ^ Ahmed, Nabila (7 November 2005). "Klinger takes four years to finish century". The Age. http://www.theage.com.au/news/cricket/klinger-takes-four-years-to-finish-century/2005/11/06/1131211946934.html. Retrieved 2009-03-04. 
3. ^ "Reiffel picked on national umpire's panel". Cricinfo. 12 May 2005. http://content-usa.cricinfo.com/australia/content/story/209095.html. Retrieved 2009-03-04. 
4. ^ Daffey, Paul (27 October 2002). "Reiffel's right decision". The Age. http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2002/10/26/1035504923888.html. Retrieved 2009-03-04. 
5. ^ "Reiffel continues rise through umpiring ranks". Sydney Morning Herald. 24 October 2008. http://www.smh.com.au/news/sport/cricket/reiffel-continues-rise-through-umpiring-ranks/2008/10/24/1224351495096.html. Retrieved 2009-03-04. 
6. ^ Australia v New Zealand, Cricinfo, 6 February 2009.
7. ^ Holmesby, Russell & Main, Jim (2007). The Encyclopedia Of AFL Footballers. BAS Publishing. ISBN 978-1-920910-78-5. 

v t e Australia squad – 1996 Cricket World Cup (runners-up) 1 Taylor (c) 2 Bevan 3 Fleming 4 Healy (wk) 5 Law 6 Lee 7 McDermott 8 McGrath 9 Ponting 10 Reiffel 11 Slater 12 Warne 13 M. Waugh 14 S. Waugh

v t e Australia squad – 1999 Cricket World Cup (2nd title) 1 S. Waugh (c) 2 Bevan 3 Fleming 4 Reiffel 5 Warne 6 M. Waugh 7 Lee 8 Julian 9 Moody 10 Lehmann 11 McGrath 12 Gilchrist 13 Dale 14 Ponting 15 Martyn Coach: Marsh

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Nicholas Verity Knight (born Watford, Hertfordshire, England on 28 November 1969) is a former England cricketer. Knight's middle name was in honour of the 1930s English Test bowler Hedley Verity who was killed in World War II and is a distant family relation.^[1] A left-handed opening batsman and a fine fielder, Knight played in 17 Test Matches and 100 One Day Internationals before announcing his retirement from international cricket after the 2003 World Cup.

He was educated at Felsted School in Essex and Loughborough University and was an outstanding cricketer from an early age. He won the Daily Telegraph 'Young Cricketer of the Year' award in 1989 and he played cricket for Brentwood cricket club in 1989/91. In domestic cricket, he began his career with Essex in 1991 before transferring to Warwickshire four years later. He was captain of Warwickshire from 2003 to 2005, and led them to victory in the County Championship in the 2004 season. He retired from first-class cricket after the 2006 season and is now a member of the Sky Sports cricket commentary team. He finished his career with 16,172 runs at 44.18 and 40 hundreds. His highest score was an unbeaten 303.

Career[link]

Test Cricket[link]

He struggled in the Test arena and made only one century, an innings of 113 vs Pakistan at Headingley in 1996. His next best score was 96 vs Zimbabwe in a drawn game at Bulawayo in 1996-97.

Knight was a far more successful, and certainly regular, one day player for England. The most obvious reason for this was his technique. Never afraid of genuine fast bowling, his footwork was often not decisive enough which caused him at times to appear to be backing away from short balls and his test innings frequently ended giving a catch to the slips or the wicket-keeper. As a fine fielder and a hard worker - it is surprising that he did not play more for England - the England team was not blessed with too many good batsman during Knight's era. However two of the better batsmen were Michael Atherton and Mark Butcher with whom Knight was vying for a place for most of his career. Atherton too was captain of England until 1998 so would have been an automatic choice for opening batsman.

One Day Internationals[link]

In one-day cricket, this backing away in fact helped him score a lot of runs and became something of a hallmark. This same strength / weakness was, curiously enough, mirrored in Michael Bevan - one of Knight's contemporaries. Whether Knight would have had Bevan's success had he been used in a similar "finishing" position is debatable but Knight could certainly have played more ODIs for England than he did.

Debuting in 1996, he scored centuries in his second and third innings in ODI cricket, on consecutive days against a Pakistan bowling attack that included Wasim Akram and Waqar Younis.

Knight wasn't selected for the World Cup team in 1999 and made his World Cup debut in the 2003 tournament. He performed well in an unsuccessful campaign for England and faced the first delivery in cricket^{[citation needed]} officially to break the 100 mph barrier, bowled by Shoaib Akhtar.

One Day International Centuries[link]

ODI Centuries of Nick Knight
	Runs	Match	Against	City/Country	Venue	Year
[1]	113	2	Pakistan	Manchester, England	Old Trafford	1996
[2]	125*	3	Pakistan	Nottingham, England	Trent Bridge	1996
[3]	122	17	West Indies	Bridgetown, Barbados	Kennington Oval	1998
[4]	105	70	India	Delhi, India	Feroz Shah Kotla	2002
[5]	111*	86	Australia	Sydney, Australia	Sydney Cricket Ground	2002

Notes[link]

External links[link]

• Player profile: Nick Knight from ESPNcricinfo

v t e England squad – 1999 Cricket World Cup 1 Stewart (c/wk) 2 Austin 3 Croft 4 Ealham 5 Fairbrother 6 Flintoff 7 Fraser 8 Gough 9 Hick 10 Hollioake 11 Hussain 12 Knight 13 Mullally 14 Thorpe 15 Wells Coach: Lloyd

v t e England squad – 2003 Cricket World Cup 1 Knight 2 Caddick 3 Hussain 4 Stewart 6 White 11 Flintoff 15 Irani 22 Hoggard 23 Trescothick 28 Harmison 29 Giles 37 Blackwell 40 Anderson 50 Collingwood 99 Vaughan Coach: Fletcher

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Philip Treacy OBE (born 26 May 1967, Ballinasloe, County Galway) is an Irish milliner.^[1][2]

Biography[link]

Born in Ahascragh,in the West of Ireland, he lived with his parents, seven brothers and sister across the road from the village church. He moved to Dublin in 1985 to study fashion at the National College of Art & Design, where he made hats “as a hobby” to go with outfits he designed.

In 1988 he won a place on the MA fashion design course at the Royal College of Art in London, and in 1989 he took one of his hats to Michael Roberts, fashion editor of Tatler magazine, and his style editor, Isabella Blow.

In 1990 Treacy graduated from the Royal College of Art with first class honours and set up a workshop in the basement of Isabella and Detmar Blow's house on Elizabeth Street, Belgravia.

He has designed hats for Alexander McQueen's white Haute Couture collection at Givenchy in Paris, for Karl Lagerfeld at Chanel, and for Valentino, Ralph Lauren and Donna Karan. He was awarded the title of British Accessory Designer of the Year at the British Fashion Awards on five occasions during the early 1990s.^[3] The late Isabella Blow, style editor of Tatler, helped Treacy launch himself as a well known milliner and wore many of his hats.^[4]

Treacy was design director of The g Hotel in Galway, in 2005.^[5]

He was awarded an honorary OBE for services to the British fashion industry by Prince Charles and the Duchess of Cornwall at a ceremony in Clarence House on 19 November 2007.

Drawing of Princess Beatrice's fascinator by Philip Treacy

He has designed hats for various films including some or all of the Harry Potter films as well Sarah Jessica Parker's hat for the film première of Sex and the City. 36 of Treacy's hats were worn at the wedding of Prince William and Catherine Middleton on 29 April 2011,^[6] including the fascinator worn by Princess Beatrice of York.^[7]

References[link]

External links[link]

• Official website
• Genealogy site
• Philip Treacy designer profile at Fashion Model Directory
• The G Hotel Galway

Ben Morris is an American musician. He is also known as Stripes.

Nick Name and The Normals[link]

In 2000, Kent James began performing as "Nick Name", an out, proud, and sometimes confrontational punk rock singer with his back-up band "The Normals".^[1] "The Normals" were Ben ("Stripes"), Ralf Balzer ("Demon"), and Ralf's sister Sandra Balzer ("Demon Sister"). In 2001, Nick Name and The Normals recorded with music producer Michael Vail Blum and released the "Nick Name" album.^[2] All of the songs were written by Ben & Kent. The band performed their original songs "Head Rush" and "I Fucked Your Boyfriend"^[3] on the "Tolerance" episode of "Flipped" on MTV. In 2002, Sandra was replaced with Ben's long-time live-together girlfriend Rachel Rattner ("Sunshine") and Tony Jardine ("Clean"). The "POW!" album^[4] was released and the band toured the U.S. West Coast. In 2003, Willamette Week proclaimed "If Kurt Cobain had stayed around long enough to come out of the closet, he would have sounded just like Nick Name and The Normals".^[5] The band performed at the Sunset Junction Street Fair. In 2004, a documentary film titled "Nick Name and The Normals" premiered in London, England.^[6] The film also screened in New York City, Portugal, Brazil, Spain, Dallas, and Providence, Rhode Island. In 2005, the band's final performance was on the Q Television Network.

Ben resides in Los Angeles, California.

Discography[link]

Albums and EPs

• 2001: Nick Name
• 2002: Nick Name: POW!

Compilations

• "I Fucked Your Boyfriend" on "The Freak Show: Year One" (2001)
• "Nick Name and The Normals" ("Nick Name" & "Nick Name: POW!" re-mastered and combined) (2003)
• "Porno Di Giorno" and "Who's Your Daddy?" on the "Hellbent" movie soundtrack (2004)
• "Decade of Dirt (1997-2007)" (2007)

References[link]

1. ^ Angry Young Queer, CinemaQueer.com, http://www.cinemaqueer.com/review%20pages%202/nickname.html, retrieved 2009-06-25 
2. ^ Nick Name CD, stonewallsociety.com, http://www.stonewallsociety.com/GLBTArtists/nicknamecdrev.htm, retrieved 2011-12-29 
3. ^ Listen Up Punk! Is This the New Gay Anthem?, CarnalNation.com, http://sf.carnalnation.com/content/12677/4/listen-punk-it-new-gay-anthem, retrieved 2009-07-19 
4. ^ Nick Name: POW! CD, stonewallsociety, http://www.stonewallsociety.com/GLBTArtists/nicknamepowcdrev.htm, retrieved 2011-12-29 
5. ^ "Heavy-Metal Homos", Willamette Week, 2003-04-09, http://www.wweek.com/editorial/2923/3810/, retrieved 2009-06-25 .
6. ^ Nick Name & The Normals, imdb.com, http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0401684/, retrieved 2009-06-25 .

External links[link]

• Nick Name & The Normals at the Internet Movie Database