Q&A with David Puls, cricketer for Jung Tigers

Each week, The Wimmera Mail-Times catches up with players of all different sporting codes from across the region.

This week the Mail-Times had a chat with Jung Cricket Club's David Puls.

What do you love about playing cricket?

I actually love the competitiveness. In a sense I know it's a team game but it's me verses you really when it comes down to batting or bowling. The bowlers obviously trying to get the batsman out and when I bowl I'm trying to get him out. But the batsman's obviously trying to make runs. Bat well, bowl well, you've still got to take your catches and things like that. I'm a cricket lover like a lot of blokes my age, I've been playing it for as long as I can remember. Also you make a lot of good friends along the way whether it's in the club, the association or when we play other associations. Sometimes you're enemies on the field and the next day you're playing together.

But things have changed a little bit in cricket in that way. There's not as much competitiveness as it used to be. The sledging side of it, you don't get much of it these days.

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Have you been playing with Jung your whole life?

When I was 15 I was playing with Pimpinio as it was known back then and then we amalgamated with Horsham in the 90s and then we amalgamated with Jung, since known as the Jung Tigers.

What's your role in the team?

Definitely just a gentle medium pacer in the team. I suppose I'm the old man of the A Grade at this point of time. I got a couple of wickets against Homers but the bowling's not going too well at the moment.

I'm just trying to help out the young blokes and help out Angus if need be. Just try and be helpful to the side overall and then one day sooner or later they'll say go back to B Grade and whenever that day happens so be it.

Favourite cricketer of all time?

Because I'm more of a bowler than a batter I always enjoyed Glenn McGrath I reckon. He was always on the money, just always at you and he seemed to have the wood over a few batsman. But for batters, I still don't think you can go past Ricky Ponting, just because of the era I was in, he was just fantastic to watch. Before that, I can remember the end of the Lillees and the Thomsons and they were fantastic.

If you needed six runs of the final ball of an innings to win a game, who from your team are you backing?

Grant hits the ball pretty well. In all honesty I think Richard.

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