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Sunday Service with Church and Vickers

Hector and Mark

The weekly cricket podcast that shines a light on the many roles on offer in the world of cricket. Join Mark Church and Hector Vickers every Sunday at 11 am to hear them interview a new guest each episode, from various cricketing professions. Find out exactly what each job entails, how it is developing, and how best to get into it.Tune in each week to have a chance at winning the podcast"s new competition, thanks to their sponsors at Newbery Cricket.You can contact them with suggestions at

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All Episodes

37:34

Episode 25 - Dermot Reeve on his career, addiction,...

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2026/04/12

Welcome back to the Sunday Service with Church and Vickers - we hope you’ve all had a peaceful cricketing week. This week's guest captained Warwickshire to six trophies in two years during the 1990’s, earning him the reputation as one of the games greatest domestic captains. He also played three Tests for England and 29 One Day Internationals - including the World Cup Final in 1992. After retiring, he became a familiar face and voice on international cricket coverage - including England Test ...

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35:42

Episode 24 - Fast Bowling Coaching + Consultancy,...

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2026/04/05

Welcome back to the Sunday Service with Church and Vickers - we hope you’ve all had a peaceful cricketing week. This week, Mark and Hector are joined by an elite fast-bowling coach and consultant. This man has coached a wide array of teams - from working with a number of counties, to Head Coaching the Bangladesh A side, to being the bowling coach in the final of an under-19 World Cup - he is one of the most respected bowling coaches out there. Having played professionally for Gloucestershire ...

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Episode 23 - County Preview, Nick Friend

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2026/03/29

Welcome back to the Sunday Service with Church and Vickers - we hope you’ve all had a peaceful cricketing week. This week, Mark and Hector are joined by one of the great cricket journalists, with a special love for the domestic game. He has worked for The Cricketer since shortly before the 2019 World Cup - when he joined from CNN Sport - winning the Christopher Martin Jenkins Young journalist of the Year award in 2020. Now leading The Cricketer’s coverage of the women’s game, and writing regu...

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Episode 22 - Head Groundsman at Durham CCC, Vic Demain

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2026/03/22

Welcome back to the Sunday Service with Church and Vickers - we hope you’ve all had a peaceful cricketing week. This week, Mark and Hector are joined by a legend of the 'turf management' game. Having begun his grounds career back in 1996, this man has worked his way up the ladder, and is now a Test match-level Head Groundsman - marshalling his charges at Chester-le-Street since 2015. A 'Professional Groundsman of the Year' award back in 2017 - an award covering groundswork across all sp...

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Episode 21 - Cricketing Family, WG RumblePants

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2026/03/15

Welcome back to the Sunday Service with Church and Vickers - we hope you’ve all had a peaceful cricketing week. This week, Mark and Hector are joined by one of the greats of the 'X' world. With 25.3 thousand followers on the platform formerly known as 'Twitter', this man hosts one of the great cricket accounts. His iPad Art, 'Today's beautiful cricket ground' segment, and County Championship countdown clock turns his platform into a cricketing community. WG RumblePants joins the s...

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Episode 20 - Academy Coach and Ex-Pro, Ash Thorpe

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2026/03/06

Welcome back to the Sunday Service with Church and Vickers - we hope you’ve all had a peaceful cricketing week. This week, Mark and Hector are joined by the former Durham batter, turned coach, Ash Thorpe. Having been born in Australia, playing cricket for the Western Australia Under-19s, Ash made his first-class debut for Durham against Sri Lanka back in 2002. Now Head of Cricket at Parkview Academy of Sport, Ash also runs his own academy - as well as being a regular face on commentary for th...

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43:21

Episode 19 - CEO of the Desert Vipers and co-founder...

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2026/03/01

Welcome back to the Sunday Service with Church and Vickers - we hope you’ve all had a peaceful cricketing week. This week, Mark and Hector come together at the Kia Oval for a special podcast. Church and Vickers are joined by the Chief Executive of the Desert Vipers, Phil Oliver - fresh from his side's first ILT20 title in January. Having co-founded CricViz - spending seven years there as Managing Director before making the switch to the Vipers - it's hard to find anyone better placed to talk ...

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Episode 18 - Essex CEO, Dan Feist

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2026/02/22

Welcome back to the Sunday Service with Church and Vickers - we hope you’ve all had a peaceful cricketing week. This week, Mark and Hector reunite at the Holy Ground. It's the first time the pair have recorded at the Kia Oval in 6 episodes, so you just know it's going to be special. Church and Vickers are joined by the Chief Executive of Essex Cricket Club, Dan Feist, who has spent over 14 years at the club. As everybody knows, domestic cricket in this country is facing an interesting future....

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Episode 17 - Looking ahead, with Bryony Smith

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2026/02/12

Welcome back to the Sunday Service with Church and Vickers - we hope you’ve all had a peaceful cricketing week. This week, Mark sits down with Bryony Smith to discuss her career, last summer, and her aims for the season to come. Bryony lifted the Vitality T20 Blast trophy last year - as the first professional captain of the Surrey women’s team. She made her Surrey debut in 2014 and made 60* in her second game against Yorkshire. She quickly became one of the first names on the team sheet and h...

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Episode 16 - U19 World Cup Final, Thomas Rew

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2026/02/07

Welcome back to the Sunday Service with Church and Vickers - we hope you’ve all had a peaceful cricketing week. This week, England's Young Lions were, regrettably, 'Sooryavanshi-ed'. But, with Churchy spinning his web on Test Match Special and Hector trying to spin one of his own from the ground, we thought it prudent to touch on the Under-19 World Cup as a whole. To help with this, we hear a snippet from Hector's interview with a young Thomas Rew - captain extraordinaire and future star - at...

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Episode 15 - Exclusive chat with Andy Flower

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2026/01/29

Welcome back to the Sunday Service with Church and Vickers - we hope you’ve all had a peaceful cricketing week. This week, Hector is joined by an ICC Hall-of-Famer. He captained Zimbabwe and is widely regarded as their greatest player of all time - and with 12 Test match hundreds, 27 Test 50s, and a record breaking unbeaten double-hundred against India, it's hard to argue otherwise. Within his first two years as England's Head Coach, he had won two Ashes (home and away), took the Test side to...

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Episode 14 - Exclusive chat with Rory Burns

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2026/01/24

Welcome back to the Sunday Service with Church and Vickers - we hope you’ve all had a peaceful cricketing week. This week, Mark is joined by one of the greats of our game. He's captained Surrey to four County Championship titles over the last seven years, and has the small matter of 14,122 First Class runs to his name. He doesn't tend to sit down for long interviews, but Churchy's managed to collar him into one today - his day, in fact - Burns night. Rory Burns joins the pod discuss his journ...

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Episode 13 - Umpiring, Mark Newell

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2026/01/18

Welcome back to the Sunday Service with Church and Vickers - we hope you’ve all had a peaceful cricketing week. This week, Mark is joined by former Sussex batsman Mark Newell who has been a professional umpire since 2017. Mark talks to Mark about his cricketing journey from playing to being the man in the middle for first class cricket in this country. Mark also gives some great advice to anybody who is considering taking up umpiring and being involved in the game. Also on the episode, Church...

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43:58

Episode 12 - CEO of the MCC Foundation, Angus Berry

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2026/01/11

Welcome back to the Sunday Service with Church and Vickers - we hope you’ve all had a peaceful cricketing week. This week, Mark and Hector are joined by the CEO of the MCC Foundation, Angus Berry. Having set up his own non-profit organisation to help sports clubs engage with their communities, Angus has always wanted to make the game more accessible and harness its unifying powers. Now, as CEO of the MCCF, he talks through the Foundation’s incredible plans to facilitate accessibility with g...

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47:50

Episode 11 - County Cricket Archives and Commentary,...

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2026/01/03

Welcome back to the Sunday Service with Church and Vickers - we hope you’ve all had a peaceful cricketing week. This week, Mark and Hector are joined by one of the most comforting voices in the game and a stalwart of Northamptonshire CCC. Having joined BBC Radio Northampton in the 1980s, Andrew Radd became the club's official archivist last year and was presented with the Association of Cricket Statisticians and Historians' (ACS) statistician of the year award. Having authored a n...

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Episode 10 - CHRISTMAS SPECIAL with Dan Norcross and...

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2025/12/28

Welcome back to the Sunday Service with Church and Vickers - we hope you’ve all had a peaceful cricketing week and a VERY joyous Christmas. This week is the big one. Some might even say it's monumental. It is, of course, the highly awaited Christmas special. And to mark this special day, Church and Vickers were treated to TWO guests. Beaming in from Melbourne, fresh after a 20-'wicketed' day at the MCG, Daniel Norcross and Andy Zaltzman continued to grace the airwaves long after their working...

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Episode 9 - Magazine Editing, Huw Turbervill

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2025/12/19

Welcome back to the Sunday Service with Church and Vickers - we hope you’ve all had a peaceful cricketing week. This week, Mark and Hector are joined by the editor of The Cricketer Magazine, Huw Turbervill. Having previously spent 15 years at The Telegraph, Huw joined The Cricketer in 2015, producing the monthly magazine for 11 years, and has been Editor for the past four years. Huw takes us through his career in print journalism, discusses how sports media has developed alongside social medi...

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Episode 8 - Coaching and Playing, Rikki Clarke

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2025/12/12

Welcome back to the Sunday Service with Church and Vickers - we hope you’ve all had a peaceful cricketing week. This week, Mark and Hector are joined by one of the all-time county greats. With 11,387 First Class runs and 534 First Class wickets under his belt, he retired from the professional arena in 2021. He won the County Championship with both Surrey and Warwickshire, and his impressive career culminated in 2 Test Matches and 20 ODI appearances for England - with many calling for more. No...

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Episode 7 - Sports Psychology, Michael Caulfield

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2025/12/05

Welcome back to the Sunday Service with Church and Vickers - we hope you’ve all had a peaceful cricketing week. This week, Mark and Hector are joined by one of the best sports psychologists in the country. Now based at Brentford FC, Michael Caulfield spent over 15 years working alongside Hampshire CCC whilst also being involved with Sussex CCC, and continues to keep in touch and help cricket players across the country. Michael talks about how he transitioned from being the Chief Executive of ...

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Episode 6 - Stadium Art, Andy Brown

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2025/11/29

Welcome back to the Sunday Service with Church and Vickers - we hope you’ve all had a peaceful cricketing week. This week, Mark and Hector are joined by the internationally renowned sports artist, Andy Brown. Andy was the official artist at last year's IPL, and has put many iconic moments to canvas, including capturing Sir Jimmy Anderson's 700th wicket in Dharamshala, and later presenting the painting to the great himself. Specializing in baseball and cricket, Andy has been travelling the wor...

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