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English cricket journalist
George Dobell (born 4 May 1972)
[1] is an English cricket journalist.
Dobell is chief cricket writer at
The Cricketer. He was formerly senior cricket correspondent at
ESPNcricinfo.
[2] He has written for
SPIN Magazine, and
The Cricketer as well as
The Guardian,
[3]
The Times
[4]
[5] and the
Birmingham Post.
[6] He has contributed to the cricket almanac
Wisden.
[7]
Dobell was the ghost writer for the autobiography of former
England and
Warwickshire cricketer
Jonathan Trott entitled Unguarded.
[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]
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
Melinda Farrell) answer viewers' questions.
[16]
[17] Dobell regularly appears on the
Test Match Special journalist panel at lunch on the final day of a
Test match.
[18] He has appeared regularly on the
Sky Sports programme Cricket Writers on TV,
[19]
TalkSport,
[20]
[21] and on
BBC Radio 5 Live.
[22]
[23]
Dobell possesses both British and
New Zealand passports, the latter by virtue of his mother. As a child he watched a lot of
Somerset County Cricket Club matches and his favourite players were
Ian Botham and
Viv Richards.
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a
b Buddha, A. Cricketing (6 April 2012).
"Donning the whites with Grace: At the wicket with George Dobell". Donningthewhites.blogspot.com.
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"George Dobell - Author Index". ESPNcricinfo.com.
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"George Dobell". The Guardian.
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^ Dobell, George (23 April 2011).
"Varun Chopra makes history in double quick time". Thetimes.co.uk.
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^ Dobell, George (6 May 2011).
"Courage of Steven Croft gives an edge to Lancashire in pitch battle". Thetimes.co.uk.
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"Rain wrecks Walsall hopes by George Dobell". Birminghampost.co.uk. 20 August 2006.
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"County Cricket's Greatest Overseas Players: Warwickshire - Wisden". Wisden.com. 6 June 2018.
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^ Hopps, David (9 December 2016).
"Fifteen from '16". ESPNcricinfo. Retrieved 5 March 2024.
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"Cricket is Jonathan Trott's life – and it has made him suffer - The Spectator". Spectator.co.uk. 7 January 2017.
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"Under The Lid: Jonathan Trott - All Out Cricket - Unguarded". Wisden.com. 17 October 2016.
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"A list of the 238 most respected journalists, as nominated by journalists in the 2018 Journalists at Work survey" (PDF). Nctj.com. Archived from
the original (PDF) on 29 October 2021. Retrieved 28 May 2024.
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"Switch Hit". Cricinfo.
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^ FM, Player (20 March 2024).
"Switch Hit Podcast". Switch Hit Podcast.
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"Dobell and Walker co-host Lord's Podcast". Lords.org. March 2024.
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"George Dobell - One Stump Short". Onestumpshort.wordpress.com.
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"#politeenquiries". Cricinfo.
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"#PoliteEnquiries: Is this Cook and Anderson's last Test series?". Cricinfo.
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"TMS:The journalist panel, Test Match Special - BBC Radio 5 live". BBC.
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"CWOT podcast". Skysports.com.
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"Cricket Week Podcast on talkSPORT 2: October 30, 2017". Talksport.com. 30 October 2017.
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"Cricket Week PODCAST on talkSPORT2: July 16, 2017". Talksport.com. 16 July 2017.
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"Cricket journalist: I'm worried for Joe Root's future, In Short - BBC Radio 5 live". BBC. 30 March 2016.
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"TMS - What the writers think – Journalists panel, Test Match Special - BBC Radio 5 live". BBC. 30 December 2017.