Full name Gary David Freear Role Cricket Player Name Gary Freear | 2000–present Cambridgeshire Batting style Right-handed | |
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Born 4 May 1982 (age 41) ( 1982-05-04 ) King's Lynn, Norfolk, England | ||
Gary David Freear (born 4 May 1982) is an English cricketer. Freear is a right-handed batsman. He was born in King's Lynn, Norfolk.
Freear made his debut for Cambridgeshire in the 2000 Minor Counties Championship against Suffolk. Freear has played Minor counties cricket for Cambridgeshire from 2000 to present, which has included 48 Minor Counties Championship matches and 26 MCCA Knockout Trophy matches. In 2001, he made his List A debut against Somerset in the Cheltenham & Gloucester Trophy. He played three further List A matches for Cambridgeshire, the last coming against Northamptonshire in 2004. In his four List A matches, he scored 36 runs at a batting average of 12.00, with a high score of 21.
In his spare time Gary works as a carpenter for his family business. More recently he has founded GDF Bats and makes and sells cricket bats and other equipment to the buyers specifications.
He is currently living in a shed near Wisbech Town Cricket Club with long term friend Mark Porter, owner of Anglia Vehicle Services.
The pairs friendship and lifestyle has been referred to by many locals as "Chod Life".
Despite this, Gary is a respected figure in the town with many of his peers nicknaming him "The Statue". This is due to his unrivalled career in local cricket and the imminent statue the club will build of him, when of course, chairman Bob Burgess stops wasting valuable meeting time talking about trees.