Fourth-year Nestles captain Geoff 'Wizz' Williams is hoping his team can get over the line against Allansford-Panmure in the opening round of twenty20 encounters.

Williams will play his 190^th game for Factory after recording 10 senior matches with Wesley-CBC.

His career started in Wesley-CBC juniors but he developed a love for the sport long before that.

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The 33-year-old explained he and younger brother Cameron, a Russells Creek premiership captain, were honing their skills from day dot.

"We just grew up playing cricket in the backyard, down the driveway, out on the road, around the corner - wherever we could, we played cricket," he said.

The brothers lived a stone's throw from the indoor cricket centre on Mortlake Road (today Active Sportz) so they could often be spotted there too.

Otherwise they'd be following their cricket-loving dad, also Geoff, to grounds around the south-west.

Williams made his A grade debut for Wesley-CBC when he was about 16 years old.

By age 19 he had moved to Nestles.

The all-rounder, who has scored half a dozen A grade centuries, said playing in finals with and against great players had been among his highlights.

He's played in numerous grand finals in different formats but is still chasing an elusive top division flag with Nestles.

Williams also counts his Country Week (representative) experiences as special.

"I was never the best player going around, I always bit larger than others and unfit and I worked hard and was able to do a couple of trips to Country Week as well in my late 20s," he said.

"I'm pretty stoked with that, I was able to work my way to that level."

Being club captain is a source of pride for Williams.

"It's a pretty elite little group to be in as captain of Nestles A grade team, there are premiership captains left, right and centre and the goal is to be one (of them), one day," he said.

Williams is also a contributor off-field.

The self-confessed "stats man" is helping collate Nestles' history; building on the work of those before him.

"When the history of Nestles hadn't been done for a little bit I just took it over," he said.

"I had a whole heap of scorebooks at home and went through them and made sure it was all right."

Mentoring young cricketers, at club level and Country Week, has been another contribution Williams has made to the sport.

He said his junior coaching career started back when he was 21 and then club president Peter Herbert told him he would be coaching the under 15s.

He has mentored many of the club's junior teams since.

"It's just been good fun, you hang out with them on Tuesday night, you're teaching them skills, you're teaching them life skills," he said.

Williams is playing with and against some of the junior players he coached.

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