https://www.cricketworld.com/ethan-bambers-first-interview-as-a-bear/98007.htm
Interesting interview. At no point was there any talk of / by Robinson, just a welcome by Larsen. Strange, I would have thought the Head Coach would have been saying something!
As I said over in the 'End of Season Review' thread, PERHAPS I'm reading too much into Mr Robinson's absence - but perhaps not!
Well here's something I certainly didn't know about Ethan Bamber:
https://www.kingcricket.co.uk/two-remarkable-things-about-ethan-bamber-as-warwickshire-move-up-to-second/2025/05/07/
I thought that Jim Troughton was the only Bear with an acting pedigree.
Yeah I remember there being a big thing made of this when he broke into the Middlesex side.
Be interesting to know if his father has ever been in the same film/play as David Troughton.
LeicesterExile wrote:
Be interesting to know if his father has ever been in the same film/play as David Troughton.
Or maybe with Granddad Patrick Troughton - Doctor Who meets Hitler. I'd definitely watch that.
LeicesterExile wrote:
Be interesting to know if his father has ever been in the same film/play as David Troughton.
There is something from the 80's when this happened, can't remember the name of it unfortunately. Was a series I think.
Think Troughton was a regular and Bamber was in 1 episode. Or the other way around.
There's a fascinating interview with Bamber on The Cricketer website. He comes over as extremely humble as well as being very thoughtful about his career.
GerryShedd wrote:
There's a fascinating interview with Bamber on The Cricketer website. He comes over as extremely humble as well as being very thoughtful about his career.
yeah I have heard him on comms during the T20 games and he seems a thoroughly nice young man, there are shades of Woakes in his bearing and attitude
Yeah he was a guest to the T20 comms box for a game earlier this season and this precise point about humble was made.
They addressed him as being "too self deprecating" and asked him how his training was going about remediating this, to his answer:
"Yeah it's going really well"
Which I thought was a very self-aware answer!
GerryShedd wrote:
There's a fascinating interview with Bamber on The Cricketer website. He comes over as extremely humble as well as being very thoughtful about his career.
I stumbled across this interview from 2018 a few days ago, before he was a pro cricketer. Seemed refreshingly grounded even at that young age:
https://www.espn.co.uk/cricket/story/_/id/22181539/the-many-shades-ethan-bamber
With Chris Woakes’s bearing and attitude and Andy Caddick’s ears, he really can’t go wrong.
Ethan Banter
You can vote for Ethan Bamber as PCA Player of the Month - link here:
https://www.edgbaston.com/media-article/vote-bamber-for-septembers-pca-player-of-the-month?utm_campaign=15645146_Members+Newsletter+%282%2F10%29&utm_medium=Email&utm_source=DotDigital
The Club has confirmed that "the 27-year-old took 69 wickets during the Bears’ title-winning campaign and has now signed a new three-year deal with the club which will keep him at Edgbaston Stadium until the end of the 2029 season."
Great news!