When Keaton Jennings packed his bags to leave South Africa for England, he didn't have much of a plan. He just wanted to play cricket and hoped to make it. His father made him promise one thing, that he would not abandon his varsity studies. 11 years later, Keaton Jennings has played international cricket, scoring a century on debut, he is also pursuing his Master's degree, while he plays professional cricket for Lancashire County Cricket Club.
Keaton joined me to chat about cricket, his journey and the debut 100.
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Heinrich Klaasen has come a long way and still has a long way to go. Just a week before his Proteas call up, he couldn't afford tickets to go and watch the Proteas play. Now he is an important member of the team's batting lineup and also the leadership group. Klaasen is calm, collected and always eager to do whatever that is needed of him by the team.
In this episode, we discuss parts of his career.
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Jimmy Cook started playing cricket in the 1960s as a young boy, and he started coaching cricket in the 1970s just as his career as a teacher was taking off. For years he balanced teaching, coaching, playing cricket and football. Jimmy Cook has coached elite players who include Jos Buttler, Graeme Smith, Devon Conway and both his sons, Stephen and Ryan Cook. Jimmy Cook currently runs the Jimmy Cook Cricket Academy.
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In 2017 Devon Conway left South Africa for New Zealand, he needed a fresh start from everything. Though he knew that he belonged on the cricket field, for most of his career in South Africa, it did not feel like that. His love for the sport was waning. He needed to rediscover himself and fall in love with cricket all over again. It happened when he was playing club cricket and coaching primary school kids in New Zealand.
In June 2021 he scored 200 runs on his Test debut for New Zealand. He felt at home.
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As a cricketer, Alviro Petersen always had one goal, and that was not to become the best opener or one of the best openers in South African cricket. He had bigger dreams, he wanted to be one of the best batters in South African cricket. It is a mindset that served him well through a career with lots of ups and downs.
We talk about his century on debut, his journey as a cricketer and life after cricket.
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Being Jimmy Cook's son was great, because he was a great father and it's always nice to have a personal coach in Jimmy Cook to help you find your path in the game. But, in the professional arena, it had its own issues when it came to Stephen Cook. His career seemed to be overshadowed by his father's. It looked as if he was destined to be 'Stephen Cook, Jimmy Cook's son', and never just Stephen Cook the cricketer.
In January 2016, Stephen Cook claimed his spot in international cricket and cricket history with a century on his Test debut.
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This is not a podcast about the match, but it is about the people involved in the matches. the kind of thing a fan might want to discuss with a coach or player or someone who knows them or has written written something about them. It's about the human beings who take part in sports. We have conversations that helps one to know them better.
Past guests include Allan Donald, Enoch Nkwe, Grant Morgan, Farhaan Behardien, Andy Birrel, Sarel Erwee, Ian Pont, Eric Simons and Prasanna Lara.
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Gary Kirsten is a World Cup winning coach. That is a big deal, he is one of a handful of South Africans to lift a cricket world cup. But he doesn't let that go to his head. He remains grounded, and whether it is in the community or coaching professional cricketers, Gary Kirsten is focused on only one thing, adding value. That is what he seeks to do with the Gary Kirsten Foundation and CoachEd.
I caught up with the respected and World Cup winning coach and discussed his career, his motivation and playing alongside Peter Kirsten.
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Dean du Plessis has been cricket commentary for 20 years now. He is one of the few commentators from Zimbabwe, and the first blind cricket commentator. Dean depends on stump mics to know and understand what is happening on the pitch and can tell from sounds who is bowling and other critical information about the game.
Of course, each time someone interviews him they invariably ask him about his blindness and how he does his job. That is not what this episode is about. In this episode we chat about one of his friends, Andy Flower, and his great love, Zimbabwe Cricket.
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A cricket career is a journey, and each journey is different. But, there are also so many similarities in the things that players experience. This is why JP Duminy wants to be a part of the journeys that young players are embarking on. So that he can help where he can, and also take lessons that he can also learn from so that he can help others. Shared experiences are what make the journey less daunting and they also make life richer.
In this podcast JP Duminy shares his journey and his current endeavors that include coaching, commentary and the work that he is doing with his foundation, JP21 Foundation.
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Dev Govindjee's cricket career started when there were close to no facilities for people of color. Dev, achieved one of the greatest honors for people at the time: to play in the annual North vs South tournament where the best of the best of the South African Cricket Board of Control players took part in. He also has one of the best records by a spinner, ever, in the period.
In this episode, Dev takes along the path that he walked to the present, where he is now a match referee.
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Sports and performance psychologist Kirsten van Heerden is a former member of Team SA. She represented South Africa on a number of platforms that include the Olympics and Commonwealth Games. Now she works with athletes, many cricketers, helping them to develop mental toughness and maintain good mental health.
In this episode we explore some of her work with sportspeople.
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She has a podcast, Behind The Dream: https://www.buzzsprout.com/377435
One of Dave Nosworthy's big things is paying attention, learning as much as he can about the place, environment and about the individuals, before he makes decisions. Culture is important to him.
In this episode he shares his journey, philosophy, motivation and mentorship.
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You can also follow the work he does with other coaches and professionals here: https://www.cricketmentor.com or follow them on Twitter on https://www.twitter.com/Cricket_Mentor
In this episode Dan Weston walks me through The Hundred and T20 cricket using numbers.
Numbers have always been Dan's thing, he has an accounting degree and then from there became a professional gambler playing online poker and slots. Now he is using his numbers to make sense of cricket: players, matches and teams. He is a data analyst for Birmingham Phoenix and Leicestershire CCC. He also provides recruitment data and strategy services for teams. He has done well for himself for someone who only played village cricket.
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Glenn Pocknall is one of those rare ones. It is not often that an individual without a substantial history in the sport gets to go very far. There is a distrust for "outsiders", and by virtue of not having played cricket at any professional level, Glenn is an outsider of sorts. The Wellington Firebirds coach shares the story of his journey in this conversation, where he also shares some of his out of the box methods at training.
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The boy from Duduza who had lunch at Lord's, that is the easiest way to describe Mangaliso Mosehle's journey. In this episode Mangi shares his highs and lows, being selected for the Proteas and losing his franchise contract the very next year. He shares the lessons that he learnt from that experience and what his nomadic wicketkeeping career has taught him - it is easier to count the franchises he hasn't played for than the ones he played for, and he has won a few titles along the way.
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Tabraiz Shamsi is a rare kind of cricketer, you aren't going to see a lot of chinaman bowlers, let alone one from South Africa who does a bit of magic to entertain the crowd. Shamsi is a showman to the hilt, and he does enjoy a good scrap in the middle, he does not know how to back down from a fight. He keeps coming back and trying to find ways to get the upper hand.
In this episode of Pavilion Conversations, we chat about his journey as a cricketer, and what makes him the kind of player he is.
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SJ, as most of his mates call him, has really come a long way both as a cricketer and as an individual. He is not yet a finished product, but he has arrived at a place where he is happy with the individual that he has become - and the one that he is becoming. Together we trace the path of his career in this great chat.
The lifeblood of any sports code is the grassroots, the local clubs and the semi-pros. Without them there is no hope for growth and development. In this short chat, Dev Govindjee walks me through the Port Elizabeth Sports Legends Trust. The PESTL was formed to recognize and celebrate some of Port Elizabeth's sporting heroes, the men and women who participated in sports during a very difficult era for South African sports. Many of them went uncelebrated and live with little recognition to the role they played in laying the foundations of sports in their communities.
Adi Birrel started coaching in a very different era, in the 1980s. He was 24 and things were very different back then. So, it's safe to say he has seen it all. From coaching kids without equipment and proper facilities in the townships to taking Ireland to the 2007 World Cup and then now at Hampshire County Cricket Club, Birrel has coached at every level.
