Pavilion Conversations with C. S

Dev Govindjee's cricket career started when there were close to no facilities for people of color. Dev, achieved one of the greatest honors for people at the time: to play in the annual North vs South tournament where the best of the best of the South African Cricket Board of Control players took part in. He also has one of the best records by a spinner, ever, in the period. 

In this episode, Dev takes along the path that he walked to the present, where he is now a match referee.

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Dev Govindjee is also on twitter: https://www.twitter.com/DevMatchRef

Sports and performance psychologist Kirsten van Heerden is a former member of Team SA. She represented South Africa on a number of platforms that include the Olympics and Commonwealth Games. Now she works with athletes, many cricketers, helping them to develop mental toughness and maintain good mental health. 

In this episode we explore some of her work with sportspeople.

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Dr. Kirsten van Heerden is also on Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/kirstvanh

She has a podcast, Behind The Dream: https://www.buzzsprout.com/377435

One of Dave Nosworthy's big things is paying attention, learning as much as he can about the place, environment and about the individuals, before he makes decisions. Culture is important to him.

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Dave Nosworthy is on Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/DONCRICKET

You can also follow the work he does with other coaches and professionals here: https://www.cricketmentor.com or follow them on Twitter on https://www.twitter.com/Cricket_Mentor

In this episode Dan Weston walks me through The Hundred and T20 cricket using numbers.

Numbers have always been Dan's thing, he has an accounting degree and then from there became a professional gambler playing online poker and slots. Now he is using his numbers to make sense of cricket: players, matches and teams. He is a data analyst for Birmingham Phoenix and Leicestershire CCC. He also provides recruitment data and strategy services for teams. He has done well for himself for someone who only played village cricket.

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Glenn Pocknall is one of those rare ones. It is not often that an individual without a substantial history in the sport gets to go very far. There is a distrust for "outsiders", and by virtue of not having played cricket at any professional level, Glenn is an outsider of sorts. The Wellington Firebirds coach shares the story of his journey in this conversation, where he also shares some of his out of the box methods at training.

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The boy from Duduza who had lunch at Lord's, that is the easiest way to describe Mangaliso Mosehle's journey. In this episode Mangi shares his highs and lows, being selected for the Proteas and losing his franchise contract the very next year. He shares the lessons that he learnt from that experience and what his nomadic wicketkeeping career has taught him - it is easier to count the franchises he hasn't played for than the ones he played for, and he has won a few titles along the way.

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Tabraiz Shamsi is a rare kind of cricketer, you aren't going to see a lot of chinaman bowlers, let alone one from South Africa who does a bit of magic to entertain the crowd. Shamsi is a showman to the hilt, and he does enjoy a good scrap in the middle, he does not know how to back down from a fight. He keeps coming back and trying to find ways to get the upper hand.

In this episode of Pavilion Conversations, we chat about his journey as a cricketer, and what makes him the kind of player he is.

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SJ, as most of his mates call him, has really come a long way both as a cricketer and as an individual. He is not yet a finished product, but he has arrived at a place where he is happy with the individual that he has become - and the one that he is becoming. Together we trace the path of his career in this great chat. 

The lifeblood of any sports code is the grassroots, the local clubs and the semi-pros. Without them there is no hope for growth and development. In this short chat, Dev Govindjee walks me through the Port Elizabeth Sports Legends Trust. The PESTL was formed to recognize and celebrate some of Port Elizabeth's sporting heroes, the men and women who participated in sports during a very difficult era for South African sports. Many of them went uncelebrated and live with little recognition to the role they played in laying the foundations of sports in their communities.

Adi Birrel started coaching in a very different era, in the 1980s. He was 24 and things were very different back then. So, it's safe to say he has seen it all. From coaching kids without equipment and proper facilities in the townships to taking Ireland to the 2007 World Cup and then now at Hampshire County Cricket Club, Birrel has coached at every level.