Among his many talents, Mr Mark Ramprakash MBE is a great mimic and brought along a famous name or two on Monday 20 January. How many, I lost count. But I do know that Mark's audience was larger still. So much so that extra chairs were needed – and plenty of them – as a record crowd of members and friends thronged Beverley Town CC . Did Mark mention Strictly (Come Dancing)? Well , perhaps just a little! Despite a 25-year playing career with England, Middlesex and Surrey that brought 35,000 runs and 114 centuries, Mark reckons that winning Strictly in 2006 has eclipsed all that in the public mind. When presenting him in 2013 with an MBE for services to cricket, even HM The Queen wanted to know if he was still dancing …. And the man behind it all was Darren Gough, a Strictly winner in 2005, who persuaded the reluctant Mark to sign up. But back to cricket! Mark has English and Indo- Guyanese heritage and has lived in Harrow all his life . ...
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