Feb. 13, 2025

Malcolm Conn - Behind The Headlines

Malcolm Conn - Behind The Headlines
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The Cricket Library

In the latest edition of the Cricket Library Podcast, award-winning cricket writer Malcolm Conn joins us for an engaging conversation about his many decades of covering cricket.

Mal shares the origins of his passion for cricket growing up in the country, getting his first gig as a journalist, travelling the world covering the cricket, and taking us behind the scenes of one of the biggest stories in world cricket, for which he won a Walkley Award.

He reflects on his early memories of watching Shane Warne bowl in Sri Lanka, Matthew Hayden's incredible 1st Class run tally on the 1993 Ashes tour without playing a test match and his approach to building relationships with players as a journalist.

Finally, Mal shares with us who is on his invitation list for a dream cricket net session.

This is an episode that you do not want to miss!

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