May 4, 2021
Boff Whalley was born in Lancashire, where he worked as a postman and supermarket shelf-stacker before starting a band with friends in the Thatcher era. After 25 years of recording and touring with Chumbawamba (co-writing their hit song ‘Tubthumping’), Boff started to write – he has written several touring plays for Red Ladder Theatre and has written large-scale musicals with residents of two East Leeds estates, performed at West Yorkshire Playhouse. He is working at the moment with Cardboard Citizens Theatre, the Welsh National Opera, and with Edinburgh Fringe winner Daniel Bye on a show about running
May 4, 2021
Felix White is primarily known as the guitarist and one of the principal songwriters in UK band The Maccabees. Upon the band’s split in 2017, which culminated in a number 1 album, festival headline shows, multiple awards and a finale run of three consecutive shows at London’s Alexandra Palace, Felix has embarked on a number of other projects. These include co-founding independent record label ‘Yala! Records, writing film scores, broadcasting for BBC 6 music and co-presenting the BBC regular loosely cricket based podcast ‘Tailenders’ with Greg James and Jimmy Anderson. Last year he collaborated further with Jimmy Anderson, ghost-writing Anderson’s Bowl. Sleep. Repeat and wrote regular features on the game for the Independent and Wisden Cricket Monthly. His first book Its Always Summer Somewhere, a memoir through the lens of a love of cricket and music, taking in grief, identity and belonging was published by Octopus in August 2021.
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Richard Whitehead worked in newspapers for nearly 40 years, 21 of them on The Times where he occupied several senior roles, including assistant sports editor, deputy books editor and deputy obituaries editor. His knowledge and passion for the history of sport has been demonstrated in his books, including ‘The Cup’, a joyous celebration of the 150th anniversary of the FA Cup, ‘The Times on the Ashes’ and ‘Children of the Revolution: Aston Villa in the 1970s.’ He contributes to the renowned obituaries section of ‘Wisden Cricketers’ Almanack’ and edited the anthology ‘Warne on Wisden.’
May 4, 2021
TIM WIGMORE is a sports writer for The Daily Telegraph. He has also contributed to publications including The Spectator, The Economist, ESPN, FiveThirtyEight and The New Statesman. His book Cricket 2.0: Inside the T20 Revolution won the Wisden Book of the Year award in 2020. His writing covers a wide range of sports, especially cricket and football, and covers topics including the business and politics of sports and sports science.
Twitter: @timwig
May 4, 2021
Freddie Wilde is an analyst at the cricket analytics company CricViz – working with broadcasters and professional teams around the world. Freddie started his career as a cricket journalist, specialising in the Twenty20 format. He built a large profile on twitter, and originally managed his workload alongside studying for a degree in politics at the University of Cardiff. On graduating, Freddie moved into cricket data analysis and now lives in London. Freddie’s most recent book Cricket 2.0 charts the rise of the T20 format from a gimmick to the modern face of the sport. Freddie co-wrote the book with Tim Wigmore, and it was published by Polaris in 2019.
May 4, 2021
Simon Wilde has been the cricket correspondent of the Sunday Times since 1998 and has covered more than 260 England Test matches, 12 Ashes series and six World Cups for the paper. He has also received wide acclaim as author of 11 books several of which have been shortlisted for awards. The most recent of these, England: The Biography 1877-2018, a history of the national cricket team, has been reprinted several times and was described by Peter Oborne in The Spectator as “an important work of scholarly synthesis which establishes Wilde as one of our foremost cricket historians”. Copies of the book were presented to members of the England squad by the team management on the eve of the 2019 Ashes series and will be given to each future player when they make their debuts.
Website: https://www.simon-wilde.co.uk/
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