Gopal managed to play for the Royal Selangor Club Saturday side in his teens. Amongst his chief attributes is that he can't bat, bowl or field. This, however, has not stopped him from acquiring all the latest playing equipment from his travels all around the world watching cricket. None of it has been used. He makes up for this with his knowledge of cricket, most of which is wrong.

Alex is a middle/lower order batsman whose cricket career has reached the dizzy heights of playing for Malaysia's Royal Selangor Club Saturday side. The qualification for playing for that side is that you must be over 60. Alex is proud of having broken that record by playing for them in his 30s. Nevertheless, he is still best known for his crab curries.

Pandian hits the ball. Hard. He played state cricket for Selangor in Malaysia and has been known to shout out in Tamil to his batting partner “run”. Sadly his batting partner spoke only English. Pandian was the liaison officer for the West Indian Cricket Team during the DLF Cup in Malaysia last year. Since then he thinks he speaks like Chris Gayle and looks like Brian Lara.

Before signing on as producer for Hearcricket.com, his greatest cricket skill was the ability to spell the word without a spell checker. Now, his best skill has to be ogling at ladies who come to watch cricket. With a makeshift satellite dish strapped on a camel's hump, he has stayed sober (no choice, actually) braving desert winds and brawling spectators to make sure the broadcast stays on.

Never knew anything about cricket until she was courted and married into cricket by the infamous Malaysian cricketer, Devindran Ramanathan.  Not wanting to be a cricket widow so early into what promised to be an exciting relationship, Angeline was an active scorer, gaining enough experience to be an official scorer in the 1998 Commonwealth Games held in Malaysia.  She retired from active scoring after that shot at fame!

Now after 12 years of marriage, life is still as exciting and busier than ever with the patter of little feet of 3 loving canines.  Angeline resigned from full-time work and is now back in the cricket scene again as VP of Operations with HearCricket (hoping to shape up with all the running around on this job!)

A 59 year old cricket nut from Upchurch, Kent, England.  Played club cricket in six separate decades – scoring over 25,000 runs, taking more than 500 catches and 120 stumpings. Now umpires in the Kent Premier League and has scored for the MCC (on tour to Brazil/Chile), Denmark, Scotland and, most recently, for Argentina in the 2007 ICC World Division 2 championships. Has run umpire and, with his wife, Cathy, scorer training courses in England, Canada, Netherlands and Malaysia. Favourite commentators: John Arlott for wonderful use of the language and Richie Benaud for his economical unbiased commentary.

Conrad played state cricket for Perak in Malaysia and is a solid middle order batsman. He bowls "wobblies" that hang in the air for so long that you could nip off to the pavilion for a quick pint and still come back and have time to play your shot. He has taken many wickets when batsmen have decided to have two pints.

Karu was captain of Malaysia in the 1970s. Apart from representing his country in cricket he also represented Malaysia in athletics. Able to bowl left or right arm, but only able to use his right when drinking beer.

Eldest of Mike Speed’s 3 offspring and the Hearcricket.com U19 representative. Could ‘talk for England’ as a child but adolescence has subdued this trait and he now communicates mainly through grunts and gesticulations. A pupil at Alice Smith School studying English, PE, Psychology and Media Studies. Ex wicket keeper and opening Batsman represented Selangor at U15 level, now ‘into’ soccer, girls and nights out with his mates!

Married. 3 kids, over 5 years in Malaysia. Recently celebrated a major milestone birthday and doesn’t look a day over whatever he claims to be! President of Kelawar Cricket Club and member of The Royal Selangor Club, Speedy’s bowling is not eponymous, but it can be deceptive – batsmen have to make tough decisions and they have plenty of time to do so! Known to like a chat in the slips. And a drink.

Known by his team mates as "Pataudi" for being selected as captain of school & college teams at a very young age when most of his team members were about to retire, Murali has put his nose in every field as far as cricket is concerned. Apart from being a qualified Level II Cricket Australia Coach, Murali is an active cricketer, qualified Umpire and is up to commentary now!!!! A specialist opener of beer bottles & soda!!!!!

Born in a family of cricketers, it’s no surprise that he has established a career in this same field and juggles his responsibility to the national team with running his sports business, that specializes in cricket equipment.

Born in UK and a cricket enthusiast for over 50 years, Steven has played club cricket in England, Australia and Singapore.   A hard-hitting opening batsman and occasional off-spin bowler (meaning that the ball did spin - occasionally), he truly embodies the term "cricket tragic".    His illustrious playing career was curtailed by advancing years and he now focusses on administration for Youth Cricket Development in Singapore. He admits that his life has revolved around his three sons and cricket, and even though he now calls Australia home, he is still an English gentleman at heart, believing in cricket as a metaphor for life itself - "Love of the game, fair play, gentlemanly conduct and fine fellowship".

There may have been the odd friendly match or two in the last 20 years.  An occasional cricket enthusiast, who enjoys watching the game whenever time permits, he counts it as a privilege to have watched international matches both at Lords and The Oval.  Tom currently runs and arts and antique gallery here in Kuala Lumpur.

On the first day of work, Joshua turned up 12 hours late but complete with swamp boots, mosquito repellent and night vision goggles. He had thought that we're going to be broadcasting the sound of an insect that makes a lot of noise. After a sit down and explaining the game that he still doesn't understand, he produces stellar broadcasts for us.

Thiruselvam is Thirun's twin brother though they don't share the same mother or father - go figure! A star footballer, responsive rally driver and much feared spin bowler he is not. Whenever he is not repairing Hearcricket.com gear (at least thats what he tells us; we think he has no idea what he is doing as we always end up replacing equipment he claims to have fixed) or arguing with Thirun over colours of the wiring in our makeshift studios, he produces live matches.

Vijiyar, our young and reliable scorer began his interest in cricket while still a young lad in school. He's still a young lad compared to the average age profile of the commentator cast ;-) Viji played for his state team of Selangor from 1994 while in school until the Premier League in 2006. An avid scorer, he was appointed for numerous tournaments both local and international organised by the Malaysian Cricket Association. Notable tournaments were for the U15 World Cup 2000 and the official computer scorer for the Commonwealth Games 1998. His concentration and accuracy on the job is unbelievable, absolutely oblivious to the nonsense going on in the commentary box.