It?s not very often a bowler takes 12 wickets in a match and still ends up on the losing team.

But that?s exactly what happened to 45-year-old Jamaican-born right arm medium pacer Neil Anglin last weekend.

The veteran PHC opening bowler grabbed overall match figures of 12 for 104 from 26.5 overs in a losing cause against Warwick at White Hill Field in only his second appearance for the First Division club this season.

?Whenever I walk onto the field I always try to do my best but sometimes even your best is not good enough,? Anglin told .

?It was too bad we lost the game. I really dug in hard and thought our batsmen would pull through but unfortunately those things happen.?

But speaking from a philosophical perspective, Anglin noted: ?This was definitely one of my best performances ever and I feel pretty good.

?I could have bowled on all day because when you have your team-mates? support behind you and you are bowling so good, you don?t get tired.?

It was an outstanding performance PHC are banking on Anglin to reproduce when they take on the eventual winner of Saturday?s Western Counties first round clash between champions Warwick and Southampton Rangers on July 9.

?If I get selected to play (in Western Counties) then I?ll just do my best,? added Anglin, who has been part of PHC?s bowling attack since the late 1980s when the Warwick-based club featured in the Commercial League. PHC joined Bermuda Cricket Board ranks in the early 1990s.

And since his arrival at Stadium Lane, Anglin has enjoyed reasonably good success over the years while his passion and immense appetite for the game hasn?t diminished in the least. Conversely, it seems to have increased with time to perhaps suggest life does indeed begin at 40.

?I exercise regularly and I love this game and don?t ever want to stop playing this game,? Anglin added.

Anglin?s career began back in his native Montego Bay in Jamaica where he was captain of regional youth cricket team Cornwell. Anglin heralds from a cricket-mad family and his son Darren also plays for PHC.

?My dad was a cricket freak,? he recalled. ?Whenever England played against the West Indies the cricket used to come on TV in the wee hours of the morning and all of my dad?s friends would gather at our house to watch the game and I would sneak out of my bed to catch a glimpse.

?I played cricket in my teens but after that I put cricket aside for a while to concentrate on my education. I never pursued or thought about ever playing for the West Indies. I was just trying to get an education.?

Anglin listed former Australian Test great Dennis Lillee and legendary former West Indies all-rounder Sir Garfield Sobers as players he admired as a youngster.

?In those days I used to admire those guys and I have been to Sabina Park to watch cricket many times.?

Anglin also visited the UK to watch a fellow Jamaican national, Jimmy Adams, captain the Windies against England.

?I think they (West Indies) lost the game at Old Trafford,? he recalled.

But having now quickly put last weekend?s result behind him, Anglin reckons his team-mates will rebound from their 39-run loss to Warwick.

PHC are the current First Division KO Cup champions.

?We?ll bounce back,? he said with an air of confidence. ?The guys sat down yesterday and discussed about what we did wrong and what it is we need to do individually to lift our games. Now hopefully we can combine our individual efforts so that we can become a better team.?