Disability Cricket Podcast

Joel Harris, Lancashire and England deaf cricketer joins me to talk about his time playing deaf cricket for England and touring Dubai, South Africa and the Netherlands. Joel represented the Pirates in the inaugural Disability cricket league.

Damien Runner Bean Halford joins me to chat about his experience of playing disability cricket since the age of 7. He is now 35. Damien's brother Robert also plays disability cricket and so did his father Ian. Damian plays for Shropshire only disability champion club St Georges.

Its episode 39 and i'm joined by Hampshire and DPL coach Nick Wheeler. 

Today i'm joined by Michael Wilson. Michael is Middlesex coach and Disability Premier League assistant coach to The Black Cats. There will soon be a subscription service of 49p per month which contributes to the podcast expenses and bonus episodes. https://anchor.fm/disability-cri/subscribe

James joins me to talk about his disability cricket stories and his new role as coach/analyst for Disability Premier League team the Pirates

Kev Baker joins the podcast to talk about Shropshire, his ambasador role for Coloplast UK and being selected for this years Disability Premier League which starts on 22/8/2021. There will soon be a subscription service of 49p per month which contributes to the podcast expenses and bonus episodes. https://anchor.fm/disability-cri/subscribe Kev will be representing the Titans in the DPL Recorded 21/...

Always a pleasure to talk to Matthew. You might remember he joined me on the very first results show when he bowled a hatrick. Several games have been played since then. Matthew talks about his time playing disability cricket and the opportunities Middlesex have given him. This episode was recorded several weeks ago before umpire John McIntyre passed away. RIP John.

The  results show featuring D40 division 2 champions match between Lancashire v Surrey 2XI D40 div 1 game between Wales v Essex S9 regional South West between Dorset v Gloucestershire S9 regional Midlands & North between Derbyshire v Shropshire

The results from yesterdays games. As promised a link to John Mcintear's Sports Officiating from Powered Wheelchair campaign https://www.sopw.org I had the pleasure of meeting John a few times, been officiated by him and played in 2 of his special games.

Tom Law plays disability cricket. But he doesn't play in the National County Championships. Tom plays for Northants which play PAN disability cricket. They mainly play friendlies against other counties.

Another visit to Dorset Disability County Cricket to interview Sam Marks. He opens the batting for the disability section and opens the bowling for his Saturday league team Swanage CC.  Cricket is in the family. His father is the matchday coach, his mother is the treasurer and his younger brother also plays for the disability section.

Todays results show features s9 action between Dorset v Somerset and Gloucestershire V Wales If you want to appear on a show please email diasabilitycricketpod@gmail.com

Another results show.  Featuring Shropshire v Surrey Middlesex V essex Wales v Sussex

You might remember John from Episode 2 recorded back in March 2021. John is the terminally ill umpire who umpires from a powered wheelchair. John Joins me for an update on his Sport Umpiring from Powered Wheelchair campaign. He has a website https://www.sopw.org

Another Sussex disability player Henri talks about his short time playing with Sussex.

Archie Atkins-Sloan plays disability cricket for Yorkshire. This is his first season of playing county hardball D40 cricket. 

The rain has come and ruined another weekends cricket. There was meant to be 7 games played nationwide today. listen to find out how many were played.

A brief look at the results of todays games played up and down the country

2 for the price of 1. Today im joined by Patrick Ward and Bradley Donovan who talk about their time at Essex, Both are Community engagement managers. Due to wifi problems Bradley talks in depth about the Super1's programme, His disability champion club Haroldwood CC and he shares his personal cricket stories and heros.

Results show where i look at todays fixtures and highlight the runs scorers and wicket takes in the county disability games.

A results show looking at the fixtures played today and highlights the big scorers and wicket takers.

Today i'm joined by Somerset spin bowler and Welfare Officer Paul Lewis who talks about his 17 years of playing disability cricket. Paul is also the club Welfare officer and takes a keen interest in the Somerset Dragons. Paul Lewis AKA Guitarist on Wheels has recorded music which is available on SPOTIFY. Paul plays us out with one of his songs titled Thank You Recorded 10/5/2021

There were 7 disability fixtures on 23/5/2021.  Special guest Elliot Brown discusses Middlesex v Sussex There will soon be a subscription service of 49p per month which contributes to the podcast expenses and bonus episodes. https://anchor.fm/disability-cri/subscribe

Matthew is very new to disability cricket and talks to me about his short time playing for Dorset S9's. Approximately 20 minutes chatting about cricket then we talk about his actor career From Dr Who - Star Wars. There will soon be a subscription service of 49p per month which contributes to the podcast expenses and bonus episodes. https://anchor.fm/disability-cri/subscribe

Elliot Brown plays for Stirland CC, Middlesex and England lions. Another Worcester university cricketer loving university life and sharing his stories of hotel room cricket. We are now on TWITTER and Facebook. Recorded 26/4/2021. Music by Shropshire based musician Caleb Richards.