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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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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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29:54

Harry Moffitt - SAS veteran, psychologist, high...

Cricket Without Borders ·

2025/06/16

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...

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31:59

Alana King – Australian Cricketer and former CWOB...

Cricket Without Borders ·

2025/05/26

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 ...

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23:04

Emma Staples - MCC Spirit of Cricket Award/...

Cricket Without Borders ·

2025/05/05

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...

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30:29

Louise Broadfoot – Player/Coach/Administrator/...

Cricket Without Borders ·

2025/04/09

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...

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31:13

Um-E-Aymen Babar – Award Winning Journalist

Cricket Without Borders ·

2025/03/19

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...

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27:02

Chelsea Moscript , Player and Coach with Cricket...

Cricket Without Borders ·

2025/03/03

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...

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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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