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Cricket Without Borders

Ken Jacobs

What"s happening in women"s cricket around the world - the game, the people, the personalities!

sports cricket

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31:20

Lydia Dowse, National Integrity Manager, Swimming...

Cricket Without Borders ·

2025/02/17

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...

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34:17

Jennie Deckker, President, Geelong Cricket Club

Cricket Without Borders ·

2025/01/21

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...

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28:30

Sheila Nguyen, Sport Environment Alliance

Cricket Without Borders ·

2024/12/09

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...

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24:04

Megan Ponsford - Sports Historian, Documentary...

Cricket Without Borders ·

2024/11/25

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...

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28:12

Georgie Heath - Freelance Journalist & Commentator

Cricket Without Borders ·

2024/11/11

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...

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28:48

Paul Hensley – President CC Morris Library...

Cricket Without Borders ·

2024/10/21

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...

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24:57

Tamara Lowe – Founder, Cricket Kindness, Non-...

Cricket Without Borders ·

2024/09/23

Tamara established Cricket Kindness in 2016 dedicated to addressing the desperate shortage of cricket equipment in developing countries around the world and in disadvantaged communities in England and Australia . Cricket Kindness was inspired by Tamara’s heartfelt determination to make the world a happier place for cricket loving communities unable to access proper equipment and uniforms. Over the past ten years, the Cricket Kindness Project has given thousands of children, teenager...

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30:01

Natalie Grero, Founder of Fierce Girls Cricket

Cricket Without Borders ·

2024/09/10

Natalie is someone who has done it all in the game of cricket and is still making a significant contribution to the sport.As a young player Natalie represented Victoria at the U17 /U19 levels and was also an Australian U17 representative but it is arguably since her junior playing days that she has made an even more profound contribution to the sport.Natalie played a key role in the establishment of the Bacchus Marsh CC Women’s and Junior Girls program and as a current Director she prov...

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31:33

Tawanda Karasa - Founder and Secretary of Grassroots...

Cricket Without Borders ·

2024/08/29

Tawanda Karasa, Founder and Secretary of Grassroots Cricket whose mission is to partner with organisations and individuals to build a world where all children are equal and have access to fulfill their potential. Tawanda is passionate corporate social responsibility and youth development and social justice and has introduced a number of successful programs in his home country of Zimbabwe combining sporting skills and life skills to disadvantaged children. While this episode is not s...

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34:12

Lauren Jacobs - Award Winning Author and Storyteller,...

Cricket Without Borders ·

2024/08/12

Lauren is a freelance journalist in South Africa possessing a powerful storytelling ability, along with the intentionally honed skill of creating ease and calm while interviewing individuals and whose words and comments are vital to a carefully curated and researched story. Lauren is a specialist in the area of women’s news, analysis, sport, profiling and interviewing. She is passionate about women’s empowerment in the sporting world and hosts her own sports journalism show called “ She ...

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23:46

Nicole Faltum - Victorian and WBBL Player

Cricket Without Borders ·

2024/07/01

Nicole is a young woman who has come through the traditional cricket pathway since starting the game in a boys cricket team in Moe in Gippsland Victoria. Nicole toured with CWOB to Fiji in 2015 and it was easy to see even then she was a naturally talented player and leader. She has represented Victoria and the Melbourne Stars in the WBBL as a wicketkeeper and top order batter and is one of the young shining stars in Australian cricket and it is wonderful to hear about her journey i...

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30:39

Cheryll Rogers - CEO, Fairbreak Global

Cricket Without Borders ·

2024/06/17

An inspiring discussion with Cheryll about Fairbreak Global and its mission to progress equality on a truly global scale, using cricket as a vehicle to do so. Cheryll has been CEO of Fairbreak for just over 18 months and has as her aim to nurture people as individuals or collectively to move forward on their chosen path and to empower people by giving them the tools/capacity to take the next step with newfound confidence. Fairbreak Global is certainly doing just that through their i...

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30:39

Leigh Burns - Founder & CEO Lacuna Sports

Cricket Without Borders ·

2024/05/27

This is a wonderful chat with a woman who is changing the landscape for girls and women’s clothing in the sport of cricket. An American by birth who has lived in London for the past twenty years Leigh actually saw her first game of cricket in Australia but years later when her daughter started playing the game in London, Leigh could see that the players uniforms were totally tailored for boys. She set about changing the landscape for young girls and women for both their onfield clothing ...

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28:33

Marcella Torre - MCC Women's Cricket Coordinator and...

Cricket Without Borders ·

2024/05/13

Marcella has done it all from a young woman playing the game at club level, representing her State, an administrator for the Victorian Women’s Cricket Association, working for Cricket Victoria and now the Co-ordinator of Women’s Cricket at the Melbourne Cricket Club as well as being the team Manager for Cricket Without Borders on a number of tours. This is a most enjoyable discussion with someone who has given everything to the sport and continues to do so with a great passion for the ga...

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26:55

General Manager, Commercial Operations &...

Cricket Without Borders ·

2024/04/29

Tanya Gallina is the General Manager, Commercial Operations and Partnerships and has enjoyed a wonderful career in professional sport at the Hawthorn and Carlton AFL Clubs, Melbourne Victory and is now a member of the senior management team at the MCC. We discuss the evolution of the MCG from a pure sporting venue to an entertainment venue, the amazing ICC Women’s T20 Cricket World Cup Final along with the documentary that was produced about the Final. There are many critical ...

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33:55

The CEO and Cricket in the Capital featuring Olivia...

Cricket Without Borders ·

2024/04/15

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31:13

Fun in Fiji- Jenny Thompson - Her World Cricket Tour

Cricket Without Borders ·

2024/04/01

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28:18

150th Anniversary of Women's Cricket In Australia...

Cricket Without Borders ·

2024/03/18

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27:45

Memories of Australian Great Betty Wilson with David...

Cricket Without Borders ·

2024/02/27

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36:30

Cricket in Japan with Alan Curr

Cricket Without Borders ·

2024/02/12

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