IN 1980 DAVID GOWER LIKED RELAXING WITH FEMALE COMPANY OVER A MEAL
An edited David Gower interview from Australian Cricket magazine. January 1980.
Name: David Ivon Gower
Nickname: Lulu or Stoat, which is short for Stoat Strangler, a nom de plume I once used when ordering a meal in Adelaide. It comes from Monty Python.
Birth date: April 1. 1957
Height: 1.82m
Weight: 76kg
Eye color: Blue
Hair color: Fair
Marital status: Single
Do you smoke: No
Favourite dish: Roast beef or lamb with vegies
Favourite drink: Champagne or rum
Favourite TV show: Monty Python's Flying Circus
Favourite movie: Life of Brian
Fears: Being involved in any accident that would stop me playing cricket
Likes: Relaxing in female company over a meal
Dislikes: Intrusions on my privacy and getting up too early in the morning after a night game Hobbies: Photography. I like taking photos of people. I would never take any of cricket too much wastage in cricket photography.
Favourite relaxation: Listening to music when I can. I like everything from classical through to contemporary music, without going as far as punk
Last book read: The Human Factor, by Graham Greene
Favourite music/singer: Al Stewart
Favourite holiday resort: Barbados. We stopped there for two weeks before coming to Australia on this current tour and only played two games in that time. For the rest we just went water skiing and swimming, and lay on the beach and drank rum
Own car: I haven't actually owned a car for the last couple of years, but I drive a Vauxhall that a local garage supplies for me
Favourite other sport: Squash
Favourite animal: Tigers and leopards
Favourite ground: Sydney
Superstitions: I like to wear the same gear that I last got runs in. If I'm having a lean trot I'll change my gear, or my bat, or something
Most respected rival: Viv Richards
Hardest hitting batsman: Gordon Greenidge
Hardest player to dismiss: Sunny Gavaskar
Hardest bowler to face: It depends on the wicket. If it's quick with bounce, then any good fast bowler will be difficult; if it's a turner, Bishan Bedi; if it's wet, 'Deadly Derek Underwood
Favourite all-time player: Gary Sobers, Barry Richards, Graham Pollock. I didn't see Pollock play that much, but every time I did, he got a hundred
First side: Marlborough House School under-11s
Ambitions: My sole ambition is to keep on enjoying cricket and to set myself up well enough through cricket to maintain a decent living