Name: Mark Gillespie

Playing Style: Fast Bowler

Nickname: Dizzy

Secondary School Attended: Tawa College

Club: North City

Earliest Cricket Memory: Backyard Cricket with brothers

Favourite Ground to play: Basin Reserve

Most memorable cricket moment: Five wickets on debut

Favourite player growing up: Ian Smith

The non-cricketing sports person or team I most admire: Liverpool FC!

If I wasn’t a Firebird I’d be a… Liverpool Footballer

Favourite superhero: Batman

Favourite holiday destination: Las Vegas and New York

In my spare time I like to… Sleep

My favourite song is… Gangnam Style

My signature dish is… Fettuccine Carbonara

My favourite movie is… Shawshank Redempton

My favourite food is… Fettuccine Carbonara

Chores as kid: Getting weeds out of cracks

Favourite school subject: Free period

Worst school subject: All

Do you have any pets? Two dogs – Digger Barnes and Anfield, One cat - Lulu

If I could have anything, I would want… Majority of the money in the world

The biggest influence on my cricketing career is… Father