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Cricket Without Borders

Ken Jacobs

42 episodes

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Anna is one of CWOB’s inaugural players from 2011 who has gone on to enjoy a celebrated career in Victorian Premier Cricket and currently sits in fourth position for the all-time number of games played. Anna was elected Captain of the famous Melbourne Cricket Club at just 18 years of age and has embarked on a wonderful cricket journey with the MCC, Dandenong and Monash University Cricket Clubs as well as spending two seasons playing with the Tunbridge Wells Cricket Club in England. Along this...

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Anna is one of CWOB’s inaugural players from 2011 who has gone on to enjoy a celebrated career in Victorian Premier Cricket and currently sits in fourth position for the all-time number of games played. Anna was elected Captain of the famous Melbourne Cricket Club at just 18 years of age and has embarked on a wonderful cricket journey with the MCC, Dandenong and Monash University Cricket Clubs as well as spending two seasons playing with the Tunbridge Wells Cricket Club in England. Along this...

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Episodes (20/42)

Cricket Without Borders

Anna O’Donnell - Foundation Player, Premier Cricketer and High Performance Coach

Anna is one of CWOB’s inaugural players from 2011 who has gone on to enjoy a celebrated career in Victorian Premier Cricket and currently sits in fourth position for the all-time number of games played. Anna was elected Captain of the famous Melbourne Cricket Club at just 18 years of age and has embarked on a wonderful cricket journey with the MCC, Dandenong and Monash University Cricket Clubs as well as spending two seasons playing with the Tunbridge Wells Cricket Club in England. Along this...

5 minutes ago

23 minutes

Cricket Without Borders

Jenni Douglass, Author, Umpire, Scorer, Team Manager

Jenni is an Australian woman who grew up in Holbrook, NSW but now living in Bedfordshire in the UK with her daughters and husband, all of whom enjoying the game of cricket. Their local club is Ampthill Town CC and Jenni like many other volunteers, is fully immersed in the club as a scorer, team manager and Umpire. Along the way has been an interest in writing and she has written two children’s books about cricket with a third on the way. We discuss all of the above and, of course the up...

2 weeks ago

21 minutes

Cricket Without Borders

Helen Nolan, CEO The Shane Warne Legacy

Following the tragic death of Australian sporting icon Shane Warne, his family and close friends, including Helen, established “The Shane Warne Legacy” that provides free health checks for all Australians. Helen previously worked as Shane’s PA for 15 years and during a sometimes emotional discussion we hear some of Helen’s fond memories of Shane, how they first met and their “brother /sister” type relationship, notwithstanding she worked for him. The Shane Warne Legacy has some wonderf...

4 weeks ago

36 minutes

Cricket Without Borders

Trudy Lindblade, CEO Cricket Scotland

Trudy, an Australian, has been in the role at Cricket Scotland for just under two years after an extensive career in leadership roles across international and domestic cricket and cycling, working in diverse cultures and environments. As the first female CEO of Cricket Scotland, Trudy is leading a significant cultural transformation alongside a structural and governance change across the sport. Earlier this year, Trudy launched Cricket Scotland’s Women and Girls Action Plan which we discussed...

1 month ago

32 minutes

Cricket Without Borders

Malcolm Speed AO & Former CEO of Cricket Australia

Malcolm has had an illustrious career in sports administration. A lawyer by profession, he has held senior executive roles with the National Basketball League, Cricket Australia, the International Cricket Council, among others. He is also the co-founder of the Sport Environment Alliance and has held board positions with the Australian Sports Commission, Golf Australia, the Victorian Council for Fitness and Health and his beloved Richmond Football Club. We have an excellent discussion ab...

1 month ago

32 minutes

Cricket Without Borders

Dinesh Muthuraman, CEO Malaysian Cricket Association

Dinesh moved from India originally to play cricket in Malaysia and in the manner of dreams come true, liked the country and the people so much that he stayed! He commenced working for the MCA as a Development Officer in 2009, moved his way up through the ranks and was appointed CEO in 2023. Dinesh has a strong ambition to see Malaysian cricket–both male and female teams qualify for the ICC T20 World Cup within the next three years. We have a wonderful discussion around the structure of cricke...

2 months ago

20 minutes

Cricket Without Borders

Dr Sarah Fane OBE, Director of the MCC Foundation (London)

Dr Sarah Fane OBE studied medicine at Bristol University and during this time travelled to Afghanistan and Pakistan and again to Afghanistan in 2001 under the Taliban Regime. In 2002, Sarah established the charity, Afghan Connection which subsequently supported some 500,000 children with health, education and cricket including the renovation of 130 schools and the construction of 110 cricket pitches in schools and disability centres. In 2020, Sarah accepted a newly created role of Director of...

3 months ago

26 minutes

Cricket Without Borders

Bhavi Devchand - Professional Cricketer, High Performance Coach and Wellbeing Specialist

Bhavi was born in Zimbabwe in a family of Indian origin and encountered a range of cultural experiences just to be able to play the game. She represented WA and the Perth Scorchers before moving to Melbourne to join the Melbourne Stars and Victoria and in so doing represented the Ringwood Cricket Club, twice winning the Una Paisley Medal for the best player in the Cricket Victoria Women’s Premier Competition. After three years in Melbourne, Bhavi returned to Perth and founded her own bu...

3 months ago

32 minutes

Cricket Without Borders

Harry Moffitt - SAS veteran, psychologist, high performance consultant and author

Harry spent almost 30 years with the Australian Defence Force most of which was with Australia’s elite Special Air Service (SAS) as a Team Commander and Team Specialist. He completed 11 active service deployments and was wounded in action in 2008. Harry now runs a human performance consultancy working with sports teams (including Collingwood FC), the military and industry. In 2020, he released his memoir, titled “Eleven Bats”, a book about his military service and his love of cricket and desc...

4 months ago

29 minutes

Cricket Without Borders

Alana King – Australian Cricketer and former CWOB representative

Alana is widely-regarded as the best leg spin bowler in world cricket today (male or female) and has drawn comparisons with the great Shane Warne. Growing up in Melbourne, Alana was a very talented young sportswoman excelling in tennis, softball, baseball and cricket. Fortunately, she chose cricket as her primary sport and you'll hear about her journey in the sport from club cricket, to her first professional contract at aged 16 representing Victoria, Western Australia, Australia and various ...

5 months ago

31 minutes

Cricket Without Borders

Emma Staples - MCC Spirit of Cricket Award/ Co-Founder of “It’s Game On”/ DrivingChange Through Sport/ Pitch Our Future

Emma is a long-time friend of Cricket Without Borders (CWOB) of many years and who was one of the key people instrumental in securing the evacuation of the Afghan Women Cricketers and some officials in 2021 following the fall of Afghanistan to the Taliban in 2021. She also worked very closely with CWOB around the organisation of the historic cricket match on the 30th January between the Afghani Women and Cricket Without Borders . Emma has had a long career working in the sports industry and a...

6 months ago

23 minutes

Cricket Without Borders

Louise Broadfoot – Player/Coach/Administrator/ Umpire/Army Reservist/Sports Integrity (She has done it all!!)

Louise has done it all in the game of cricket and more! We hear about her wonderful career that began at school and then progressed to represent her State(s) and country but that was not enough as she has given back to the sport as an administrator and now pursuing a career in umpiring. In between all of her cricket career Lousie has also served in the police force and the Army Reserve including a tour of duty in Afghanistan which we hear about. Louise now works for Tennis Aust...

7 months ago

30 minutes

Cricket Without Borders

Um-E-Aymen Babar – Award Winning Journalist

Aymen is an award –winning multilingual sports journalist, commentator and presenter based in London. She has won numerous awards and was named the NCTJ Sports Journalist of the Year in 2023 for her exclusive report in the Telegraph writing about how women were affected by English cricket’s racism scandal. Her work has appeared in BBC Sport, The Telegraph, Wisden, The Times and more and Aymen currently works for Sky Sports. Ayment recently made the trip from London to cover Cricket With...

7 months ago

31 minutes

Cricket Without Borders

Chelsea Moscript , Player and Coach with Cricket Without Borders and Beyond

Cricket Without Borders and Chelsea have a very strong connection dating back to 2012 when Chelsea joined us on a tour to Singapore and she has remained as somewhat of a constant with us as a player and coach ever since. This is a wonderful discussion as we hear about her cricket journey from her start on a dairy farm in Leongatha to playing in an all boys team, to Dandenong CC, her travels with CWOB which have also taken her to Japan, back to Australia and then a career move to the ACT worki...

8 months ago

27 minutes

Cricket Without Borders

Lydia Dowse, National Integrity Manager, Swimming Australia

A sports lawyer by background, Lydia has transitioned into sport management and apart from her current role has held senior roles in professional, semi-professional and community sport in football (soccer) and AFL while also having held senior government roles in state event corporations in both Victoria and Western Australia. Throughout her professional life Lydia has also maintained lecturing positions in sport law and sport management in a number of universities and is also an active membe...

8 months ago

31 minutes

Cricket Without Borders

Jennie Deckker, President, Geelong Cricket Club

Jennie grew up in a cricket-loving family in Bowral, where Sir Donald Bradman grew up as a young boy and although not playing the game she always had an interest in the sport. However, it was later in life when her own daughter, Bianca started playing U11’s that Jennie really started to get involved in the administration of the sport and helped establish a girls team at her local club Drysdale CC before heading to the Geelong CC in Cricket Victoria’s Premier Cricket Competition to help the Cl...

9 months ago

34 minutes

Cricket Without Borders

Sheila Nguyen, Sport Environment Alliance

Sheila is the co-founder and first CEO of Sport Environment Alliance but that is just part of her outstanding contribution around growing the awareness and introducing strategies and plans around sustainability in sport to ensure a healthier planet and happy people!This includes presenting at a number of international Sustainability Leaders conferences and last year Sheila was Head of Sustainability for the FIFA Women’s World Cup held in Australia and New Zealand.Sheila has recently est...

11 months ago

28 minutes

Cricket Without Borders

Megan Ponsford - Sports Historian, Documentary Photographer, Researcher

Megan is the granddaughter of the great Victorian and Australian batsman Bill Ponsford after whom a grandstand is named at the MCG.She is a Ponsford and proud of it!Megan is also the author of two books, one a photographic record of the Melbourne Cricket Ground including some wonderful behind the scenes areas that are not generally seen by the public and the other titled “The HAS-BEENs and NEVER-WILL-BE's, A boys own adventure of Australian cricket and the Raj“ is a fascinating insight into A...

11 months ago

24 minutes

Cricket Without Borders

Georgie Heath - Freelance Journalist & Commentator

Georgie is a dynamic young journalist and commentator from England who is currently in Australia covering the summer of cricket as well as other sports .Georgie has covered World Cups, Olympic Games and as well as working on cricket this summer will also be doing some commentary on Volleyball.She is also a Young Ambassador for the MCC Foundation (UK) and co-hosts a podcast called Women’s Cricket Chat.Georgie has been very open about some of the challenges she has faced with mental healt...

12 months ago

28 minutes

Cricket Without Borders

Paul Hensley – President CC Morris Library Association, Philadelphia USA

The CC Morris Library is the largest collection of cricket literature and memorabilia in the Western Hemisphere and was established in the 1960’s. It has a fascinating history and included among its collection is a three-handled trophy presented to the winning team in the USA’s first interscholastic girls' cricket match held in 1895.Throughout the 19th Century and for almost 100 years until the 1920’s, cricket, with its particular emphasis upon ethics and sportsmanship, was a distinctive elem...

1 year ago

28 minutes