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Huge Villa fan - and Birmingham Bears all-rounder - Chris Woakes will make a guest appearance at the Everton game along with the T20 Blast trophy.Birmingham Bears - the T20 team of Warwickshire Cricket Club - won the trophy on a brilliant day at Edgbaston.Having qualified for the knockout stages, they then defeated Essex and Surrey to reach the showpiece, where they defeated Lancashire Lightning by four runs to emerge victorious.Woakes played a key role all season and he will be on hand at our Family Funzone on May 2.The game kicks off at 3pm but Woakes will be there for a signing session between 1-2pm.There will also be cricket coaching by members of the club and you'll be able to have your photograph taken with the trophy.Woakes - equally adept with bat and ball - has been a claret and blue fanatic since an early age and his all-time favourite player is Martin Laursen.He was in the squad - along with fellow Villan Ian Bell - when the Ashes were won by England in 2013.Woakes and Bell were pictured in the dressing room at the Oval complete with a Villa shirt hanging in the background.And some days later they paraded the famous Urn at Villa Park to the applause of the claret and blue crowd.Woakes is relishing the chance to meet Villa fans this weekend and joked when asked which player would make a good cricketer.He told us: "Christian Benteke would be frightening! I wouldn't want him running down and throwing the ball down my neck!"Birmingham Bears start their new T20 Blast campaign on May 15 when they face Nottinghamshire at Trent Bridge before a home clash on May 22 at Edgbaston against Worcestershire.
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