Tim Brookes: timed out at the drive-thru

All right, let's get back to business at hand.

300 first grade wickets, fabulous achievement.

But the 300th wicket took a little time to get.

Can you explain the story behind the 300th? And can you remember who you claimed as that 300th wicket?

Good question.

So the year before I had retired, I think it was the year before, my last game was against Subie Floret in the grand final.

I think I took five for the game, not quite sure, but I needed one more.

Didn't get it for the 300, so I was walking away with 299 wickets.

I was pretty happy with that.

Then the next season, there was some discussions to come back and it happened to be playing against Subi Florey again.

I cannot remember the batsman's name, but I know Peter Lewis caught the ball and I think he was first slip.

which was quite ironic really because I took my first red wicket against Subie Floret as well, which I remember, and that was actually Glenn Dering who's just passed away.

So, yeah, so Subie Floret, yeah, I have a lot of dealings with over the period of time.

Fair enough.

In

terms of dismissals, who was the biggest wicket that you took? And you had one which was also critical in terms of game sense.

So the biggest wicket you took and then maybe one in terms of, you know, importance.

Yep.

I probably got two incidences.

I reckon the biggest one probably would be Michael Hussey in the second innings of the first grand final we won.

At that time, I think we were bowling on a bit of a road.

And all of a sudden, I got the ball to start swimming around and I've got one to cut back in.

So basically, I'm off leg cutter to a normal righty, but come back into Mike and balding.

So at that time, he was going very well because they'd just come back from the Sheffield Shield final in Adelaide, which I think we'd just got beaten by.

So, yeah, I got him in the second innings.