Most famously the founder of The St. George’s Cricket Club of Beirut, a team that boasts one famous victory, an absolute drubbing of the Nomads Women’s team (in what was their first ever match), William is (or has been) an entrepreneur, a chef, a school teacher, a quiz master general, a journalist, a food critic, a tour guide, a fundraiser, a dissident, a guru, a cricket coach and a first class cricketer – amongst other things.

Having lived in Australia, Yemen, Syria, South Africa, Dubai and Lebanon, in 2019 he returned to the UK after his father was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer. His cricket having been limited to playing in a car park in central Beirut over the last 10 years, a chance encounter with a neighbour and his cricket bag and a subsequent post-game argument in the pub with an umpire led to a rekindled desire to don the whites once more.