Cricket Without Borders

32:32

Emma Thomson, Director & Founder, Pitch It Up Cricket

Cricket Without Borders ·

2026/09/30

Emma is a scientist with a long history of working in the hospital and health care industry who has remarkably moved into the sporting goods industry establishing her own company supplying cricket training aids that are suitable for use by children of all skill levels and abilities, including grassroots and juniors, all abilities participants and blind cricketers. In this episode we discuss the reasons for Emma’s dramatic career change, some of the technical aspects of her equipment and we le...

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28:09

Greg Shipperd, Legendary Coach and Former Player

Cricket Without Borders ·

2026/09/02

Greg is a former first class player for Western Australia and Tasmania with a formidable record as a high order batsman throughout 112 first class matches. But it is perhaps his subsequent as a coach for the past 35 years in Tasmania, Victoria, NSW and India where he has developed a formidable career with his teams winning numerous titles and Greg has developed and guided numerous players into State and national players while at the same time continuing to develop his own career as a coach as...

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27:16

Stephanie Bofinger, Founder and CEO of Fempro Armour

Cricket Without Borders ·

2026/08/11

Stephanie is the Founder and CEO of Fempro Armour. Originally from Germany we discuss Stephanie's move to Australia, her career as a professional swimmer, a trek across the Simpson Desert to raise funds for a charitable organisation "Dolly's Dream" and then her establishment of Fempro Armour which is a business providing protective equipment especially fro women and girls playinga number of sports, including cricket, AFL, rugby, rugby league, motorcycle riding and other contact sport.

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20:53

Clare Cannon with Ken Jacobs

Cricket Without Borders ·

2026/07/20

In a role reversal, Clare talks to Ken about his career and achievements at Cricket Victoria, what compelled him to help Clare in the establishment of CWOB, the highlights of the past 15 years and some thoughts about the future of women’s sport generally.

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28:57

CWOB50 Clare Cannon - Founder and Chair of Cricket...

Cricket Without Borders ·

2026/06/03

As we celebrate our 50th podcast and the fifteenth anniversary of Cricket Without Borders, it is appropriate to return to the Founder and Chair of Cricket Without Borders, Clare Cannon. While Clare reflects on the achievements of CWOB in that time, she discusses some of the highlights from tours gone by as well as some of the more recent tours to Fiji and Malaysia and also discusses the wonderful occasion when CWOB played the Afghan Women’s team in January ‘25 which led to a subsequent visit ...

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54:41

Ian Cover - Cricket Lover, Masterful MC and...

Cricket Without Borders ·

2026/04/28

Ian Cover is one of the co-founders of the “Coodabeen Champions” who have taken a look at sport on the lighter side for around 40 years on radio; Ian is also passionate about the sport of cricket and a supporter of Taverners Victoria and in particular their Geelong branch. A masterful MC for corporate functions, Ian had a long association with Cricket Victoria and particularly as the MC for the renowned Lindsay Hassett Club luncheons for over twenty years where he interviewed most of the bigg...

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29:04

Clare Haysom- Umpire on the rise!

Cricket Without Borders ·

2026/04/10

Clare Haysom is a dynamic young umpire on the rise within the cricket community. Having only commenced her umpiring career in community level cricket in 2019, Clare has quickly risen through the ranks into Premier Cricket and beyond, already having officiated in a number of premier matches, WBBL , WNCL , National Age Championships, Australia A v England A and has just recently been selected to officiate in a women’s Under 19 tri–series competition between Australia, Sri Lanka and England. We ...

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37:31

Deanne Allen-Emery – North Geelong Cricket Club

Cricket Without Borders ·

2026/03/09

Deanne is a lifelong member of the North Geelong Cricket Club along with her husband, parents and three children. Eleven years ago, along with her father, Deanne established a girls' cricket program at the Club which has now grown to have four teams. In addition to establishing the program Deanne has coordinated the program for nine seasons and coached various teams for three seasons as well as serving on the Geelong Cricket Association Junior Girls League Executive Committee. Not resting on ...

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26:23

Ron "Tiger " Woods - High Performance Cricket Coach

Cricket Without Borders ·

2026/02/23

Ron Woods is a high-performance cricket coach based in Sydney with extensive experience in women’s cricket having progressed to appointment within the Cricket NSW Academy coaching framework and internationally. His coaching career spans club, private, state and international environments underpinned by a clearly defined performance methodology and athlete-centred model.

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29:47

Earl Eddings - Former Chairman of Cricket Australia,...

Cricket Without Borders ·

2026/01/19

Earl Eddings played 272 games of Premier cricket for Northcote and North Melbourne CC’s and soon moved into administration as President of North Melbourne – at one point he was President, Coach and major sponsor of the Club all at the same time! He subsequently joined the Cricket Victoria Board, became Deputy Chairman and was subsequently elected to the Board of Cricket Australia for 13 years, including a term as Chairman which included guiding the organisation through the aftermath of “sandp...

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46:08

Kate McGready – Cricketer, Art Consultant, Journalist

Cricket Without Borders ·

2025/12/15

Kate was a member of the Australian U25 women’s cricket team that toured India in a ground breaking tour in 1975. We talk about the tour 50 years on and the impact of it in transforming women’s cricket in India. We also discuss Kate’s career for Victoria , her career with the ABC covering both cricket and hockey , two cricket legacy projects she is working on and her professional career since 1986 as an Art Consultant creating art eco-systems across a wide range of sectors and particularly in...

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35:35

Nick Hatzoglou - Cricket Lover, Multi-Cultural Sport...

Cricket Without Borders ·

2025/11/24

Nick has worked across a number of sports with Cricket Victoria, Cricket Australia, the AFL and Football Victoria specialising in programs around multiculturalism, diversity and inclusion. Nick has strong connections to the wonderful Sunshine Heights Cricket Club with four sons who play the game (including Peter Hatzoglou who has played in three BBL Champion teams) and who also has a fascination for ancient history and sport.

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23:01

Anna O’Donnell - Foundation Player, Premier Cricketer...

Cricket Without Borders ·

2025/11/10

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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21:08

Jenni Douglass, Author, Umpire, Scorer, Team Manager

Cricket Without Borders ·

2025/10/27

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...

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36:50

Helen Nolan, CEO The Shane Warne Legacy

Cricket Without Borders ·

2025/10/13

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...

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32:51

Trudy Lindblade, CEO Cricket Scotland

Cricket Without Borders ·

2025/10/03

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...

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32:46

Malcolm Speed AO & Former CEO of Cricket Australia

Cricket Without Borders ·

2025/09/15

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...

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20:31

Dinesh Muthuraman, CEO Malaysian Cricket Association

Cricket Without Borders ·

2025/09/01

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...

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26:15

Dr Sarah Fane OBE, Director of the MCC Foundation...

Cricket Without Borders ·

2025/08/11

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...

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32:07

Bhavi Devchand - Professional Cricketer, High...

Cricket Without Borders ·

2025/07/28

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...

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