George Dobell

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George Dobell is an English cricket journalist.

He is currently the senior cricket correspondent at ESPNcricinfo.[1] He has written for SPIN Magazine, and The Cricketer magazine as well as The Guardian,[2] The Times[3][4] and the Birmingham Post.[5] He has contributed to the cricket almanac Wisden.[6]

Dobell was the ghost writer for the autobiography of former England and Warwickshire cricketer Jonathan Trott entitled ’Unguarded’.[7][8][9][10]

On 10 October 2018 Dobell was included in the list of the most respected journalists working in Britain as published by the National Council for the Training of Journalists.[11]

Work[]

Dobell regularly appears on the Switch Hit cricket podcast[12][13] as well as guesting on the Lord's podcast,[14] and the One Stump Short podcast.[15]

ESPNcricinfo have a regular video feature at the end of a Test match day's play entitled ‘Polite Enquiries’ in which Dobell and his colleagues (such as Jarrod Kimber and ) answer viewer's questions.[16][17] Dobell regularly appears on the Test Match Special ‘journalist panel’ at lunch on the final day of a Test match.[18] Dobell has regularly made appearances on Sky Sports programme ‘Cricket Writers on TV, [19]TalkSport,[20][21] and on BBC Radio 5 Live[22][23]

Personal life[]

Dobell possesses both British and New Zealand passports. As a child he watched a lot of Somerset County Cricket Club and his favourite player was Viv Richards.[24]

References[]

  1. ^ "George Dobell - Author Index". ESPNcricinfo.com.
  2. ^ "George Dobell". The Guardian.
  3. ^ Dobell, George (23 April 2011). "Varun Chopra makes history in double quick time". Thetimes.co.uk.
  4. ^ Dobell, George (6 May 2011). "Courage of Steven Croft gives an edge to Lancashire in pitch battle". Thetimes.co.uk.
  5. ^ "Rain wrecks Walsall hopes by George Dobell". Birminghampost.co.uk. 20 August 2006.
  6. ^ "County Cricket's Greatest Overseas Players: Warwickshire - Wisden". Wisden.com. 6 June 2018.
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  9. ^ "Cricket is Jonathan Trott's life – and it has made him suffer - The Spectator". Spectator.co.uk. 7 January 2017.
  10. ^ "Under The Lid: Jonathan Trott - All Out Cricket - Unguarded". Wisden.com. 17 October 2016.
  11. ^ "A list of the 238 most respected journalists, as nominated by journalists in the 2018 Journalists at Work survey" (PDF). Nctj.com. Retrieved 30 October 2018.
  12. ^ "Switch Hit". Cricinfo.
  13. ^ FM, Player. "Switch Hit Podcast". Switch Hit Podcast.
  14. ^ "Dobell and Walker co-host Lord's Podcast". Lords.org.
  15. ^ "George Dobell - One Stump Short". Onestumpshort.wordpress.com.
  16. ^ "#politeenquiries". Cricinfo.
  17. ^ "#PoliteEnquiries: Is this Cook and Anderson's last Test series?". Cricinfo.
  18. ^ "TMS:The journalist panel, Test Match Special - BBC Radio 5 live". BBC.
  19. ^ "CWOT podcast". Skysports.com.
  20. ^ "Cricket Week Podcast on talkSPORT 2: October 30, 2017". Talksport.com. 30 October 2017.
  21. ^ "Cricket Week PODCAST on talkSPORT2: July 16, 2017". Talksport.com.
  22. ^ "Cricket journalist: I'm worried for Joe Root's future, In Short - BBC Radio 5 live". BBC.
  23. ^ "TMS - What the writers think – Journalists panel, Test Match Special - BBC Radio 5 live". BBC.
  24. ^ Buddha, A. Cricketing (6 April 2012). "Donning the whites with Grace: At the wicket with George Dobell". Donningthewhites.blogspot.com.
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