Martin Speight is a former professional cricketer and currently a Cricket Professional and Director of Hockey at Sedbergh School in Cumbria. In this feature, Martin shares his love for the game of cricket, and his passion for painting. Zushan Hahsmi:: Let’s start off with a little bit about your upbringing and growing up in the …
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Jared Davids is the ICCA Development & Performance coach and the Bowling Coach of the UAE U-19 cricket team. In this exclusive feature, Sportageous caught up with Jared Davids to discuss and analyse coaching in the UAE, his career and the future of aspiring players at the home of the ICC and ICC Academy. Kinza …
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Mark Coles flew to Pakistan, voluntarily coached the Pakistan women’s cricket team, and overcame several challenges to lead the team to success and growth. We caught up with the Kiwi coach to talk about his experiences in Pakistan, the current state of the women’s game there and what he’s looking to get up to in …
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Pace Doctor aims to be the worlds’ most trusted source of knowledge, research evidence and know-how for the development and coaching of fast bowlers. The owner, Marc Portus hopes to make fast-bowlers better than ever before. Hence their mantra “Making better fast bowlers”. We recently caught up with Marc himself, to hear about what he’s …
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Hassan Ibrahim, a Maldivian fast bowler talks to Sportageous about his cricketing journey, Maldives cricket on the T20I scene, and his hopes to pursue coaching after retirement. Cricket is growing rapidly in The Maldives, and their players are increasingly improving the quality of their game. Read Hassan Ibrahim’s story here. Sarah Fatima: Tell us a …
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iOn Sport is an Australian technology company that is passionate about empowering sporting performance. Their business concept was born out of a latent need to simplify the workflow for coaches, trainers, athletes and administrators of the sport by developing cost-effective technological solutions that are applicable from the professional elite level of sport to the grassroots …
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Kumar Thapa is a former professional footballer who played for Manang Marshyangdi Club (MMC), Armed Police Force club (APF) in Nepal, represented his country, internationally, and more recently coached the Nepal Women’s football team between 2015 and 2017. Kumar Thapa shares his journey navigating through Nepalese football, leading the women’s team to success, and the …
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In another special, from our Dreamers series, we caught up with Zamir Mohamed Yacob, who is a 33-year old tennis coach from Malaysia. Currently, he is a full-time tennis coach in Bali, Indonesia where he works with tennis players of all ages and levels. Tell me a little bit about your own background in tennis? …
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Pappie Jones is a football coach and also the founder of Soccer Ambassadors, a sports NGO in Liberia. He uses football to develop players in the country and provide avenues for the youth to overcome the trauma of the Liberian civil war. Pappie took out time from his very busy schedule to share his own …
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Gio Colussi is the director at The Cricket Academy in Cape Town, South Africa and batting performance specialist, and his girlfriend, Ana Cococuhna is a Brazilian model and entrepreneur. We caught up with both of them to talk about their 21-day ‘teaching a Brazilian model how to bat’ lockdown challenge. Zushan Hashmi: I would have …
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