The Cricket Mentoring Podcast

Mark started Opening Up in 2014 after his cricket club was hit with tragedy with the passing of his good mate, Alex, who took his own life. Since then, Mark has been on a campaign to raise awareness for mental health issues and suicide prevention and travels around the world teaching people how every single person can improve their ‘mental fitness’, which is something that aligns with our message...

Welcome to this episode of The Cricket Mentoring Podcast. Most of you would never have heard of this episodes guest but I have no doubt you will see and hear about him in the future. a 19 year-old Ryan Hackney currently has a rookie contract for NSW and was in Perth last week for a 2nd XI match against WA at the WACA. Earlier this year Ryan opened the batting for the Australian under 19 team in th...

Welcome to this episode of The Cricket Mentoring Podcast. After a 3 month break I’m pumped to be back and hopefully bigger and better than ever before. I really want to make this podcast as interesting and valuable for you as it can be! This episode, which was recorded a few months ago while I was in the UK, is with one of the England cricket teams sports psychologists, Mike Rotheram. Mike, who is...

If you’re a cricket lover then you would definitely know of Steven Finn. Finn burst onto the international stage as 20 year old in 2010 and quickly became the face of English cricket with lots of on field success and a very likeable character to go with it. Since then he’s had his share of ups and downs. With 126 appearances for England across all formats, Finny has certainly had a successful care...

Welcome to this episode of The Cricket Mentoring Podcast. Ben Brown or Browny as he goes by, has played first-class cricket for 11 years and is regarded as one of the best wicket-keepers in England. Having played 117 first-class matches, Browny has a huge amount of experience and at the age of just 29, he still has a very long career ahead of him. In 2017 he took over the captaincy of Sussex Count...

Charlie Burke had a dream of traveling the world as a professional cricketer. Unfortunately, he wasn’t good enough to make it as a player, so instead he’s become a high performance coach who travels the world with cricket. Charlie started his cricket coaching as a community development officer for the WACA before he progressed up the ranks at the WACA. He was then head hunted to do a role in game...

Welcome to this episode with arguably one of England’s finest ever batsman, Robin Smith. Robin, or Judgie as he goes by, had a fantastic career that included scoring over 26,000 First class runs across a huge 426 First-class matches. Now just to put that into context, as of this interview in June 2018, Steve Smith has played 118 First-class matches, Virat Kohli has played 98 & Joe Root has played...

Welcome to this episode with arguably the best young cricketer in Australia. This is the third of the series of interviews I did during my time in Melbourne. In this interview, I sat down with 20 year old Will Pucovski. Some of you may not have heard of Will – yet, but I have no doubt that he will become a household name in the future. Pucovski burst on to the scene as an 18-year-old during the Au...

G’day legends! Welcome to this episode with one of Australian’s best fast bowlers.   During my time in Melbourne, I sat down with New South Welshman turned Victorian Chris Tremain, who was recently voted the Sheffield Shield Player of the Year after an outstanding season that saw him take 51 wickets from 10 matches at an amazing average of 21.  Chris is a country boy who loves to get out into natu...

In this interview I sat down with a very interesting and exciting cricketer who has recently announced his retirement from professional cricket – Aiden Blizzard. In the intro I didn’t mention who he plays for like I have done in other episodes as he’s had a number of different teams which we discussed in the interview.  Blizzard started his career at Victoria before moving to South Australia and f...

Women's cricket is on the rise around the world. When I was in Bangalore, India a couple of weeks ago, myself and Andrew Walton sat down and spoke to two women cricketers, Vanitha VR and Likhitha VG about their story and the future of women's cricket. Vanitha has had some success on the International stage having represented India while Likhitha has lead a domestic team to a title so they both are...

Ashton Turner has played T20 International Cricket for Australia and over the last few years has become one of the best batters in Australia across both first-class and T20 cricket. In this years Big Bash he was man of the match on 3 occasions after match-winning innings and was second only to player of the tournament, Darcy Short for the most number of sixes hit in the tournament.  He also became...

Hilton Cartwright has played Test Cricket & One Day Internationals for Australia and has a unique story of how he got there. Born in Zimbabwe and living there until he was 11 years old he isn’t your typical Australian player. While he’s dominated Australian domestic cricket at times he’s also had his share or struggles and gives us a great insight into that as well as the good times in his career....

Hylton or HD Ackermann is at a different stage of his life than many of our other guests.  Ackermann played Test cricket for South Africa in the late 1990s and since retiring from professional cricket in 2009 has had a stint in the media and high-performance coaching in South Africa. He then relocated his family to Perth and has been the head of cricket at a private boys school here in Perth for t...

This is a great interview with Sam Whiteman as it’s another interesting story and as a wicket-keeper Whitey gives you another perspective on the game.  Whiteman was a very good young cricketer who progressed through the ranks in WA cricket to make his first-class debut as an opening batsman at the age of 20. After having a brilliant season for WA 2013-14 Whiteman was selected for Australia A where...

Martin Hagger is a Professor, psychologist, sports psychologist, lecturer, speaker, author, researcher and athlete himself who travels the world researching the mind and human behaviour.  It’s a change-up for us in this interview as I step away from cricketers and instead interview a sports psychologist. I’m pumped about this interview with Martin Hagger as there’s so many practical mental conditi...

This episode of The Cricket Mentoring podcast is with Australian fast-bowler Nathan Coulter-Nile. I’m really excited about this interview with Nathan Coulter-Nile as I think it gives you guys a huge amount of value. Coulter-Nile has played T20 & ODI cricket for Australia and has starred in the IPL over the past few years but his successes haven’t come easy. He’s been injured for a huge part of his...

Adam Voges will go down as statistically one of the best Test batsmen of all time but for a huge part of his career, it didn’t look like he would even play a single Test match. Voges is a very clever and thoughtful cricketer & person who has a wealth of knowledge to share with you guys. He’s played all 3 forms of cricket for Australia, as well as playing in the IPL and numerous years of county cri...

Everyone dreams of being successful and achieving their goals, but not everyone actually does achieve them. How do successful people overcome the hurdles they face and come out the other side? Dawid Malan has had to overcome a lot of frustration and tough times but has come out on top to have the success that he’s now having on the international stage. Hopefully this gives you some inspiration to...