Cricket Without Borders

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...

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 re...

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 off...

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...

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. 

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, inc...

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...

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 f...

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...

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 bo...

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” ty...

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. Ea...

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 F...

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 Wor...

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 pitch...

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...

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...

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 f...

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 Wo...

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...

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 cur...

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 C...

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 po...

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...

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 Sustainabi...