Museum of Welsh Cricket
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A Podcast interviewing a range of people from all areas of the great country of Wales who have a connection with or a story to tell about the great game of cricket.
Based on 6 episodes we listened to · September 2026
It makes Welsh cricket history tangible by connecting notable careers with the players, volunteers, grounds and decisions that sustain the game.
Museum of Welsh Cricket Podcast records the game through career interviews, archive conversations and reporting from club grounds. The host gives players and volunteers room to explain how Welsh cricket is played, coached and sustained, from Brad Wadlan's development as a…
A swirling catch at St Helen's is your ticket into Welsh cricket as the people there remember it.
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A farewell to St Helens that turns club memory into a story about what comes next.
The piece treats St Helens as both a goodbye and a change point for Swansea cricket, but its best quality is how memory comes through people. Dickie Bird, John Prickett, ground staff, a schoolteacher, wicketkeepers, and the small matchday details all give the place its texture.
Three Glamorgan hundreds, one composed batting story, and a clear sense of how confidence is built in the game.
This episode follows three Glamorgan women and the hundreds they have put together this season, with Bethan Gammon setting the tone in a calm, reflective register.
A village fixture, a literary festival, and the local voices that give the match its shape.
Hay-on-Wye comes across as more than a cricket fixture here; it also reads as a small civic portrait, with the return meeting between Hay Cricket Club and the Authors' Eleven set inside the festival's sports day and carried by local voices, sponsors, and stewards.
A measured cricket portrait that turns a playing career into a coaching life.
Toby Radford's story reads less like a highlight reel than a calm account of how a player grows into a coach. It moves from Glamorgan, Middlesex and Sussex to the Middlesex Academy, then through the head coach role at Middlesex and later work in Barbados and with West Indies…
A grounded cricket career shaped by coaching, club cricket, and Welsh pathways.
Brad Wadlan's path is told with quiet confidence. Born in Bridgend, he built a career across club cricket in Wales and England, grade cricket in Australia, first-class cricket in Zimbabwe, and minor counties cricket with Wales Minor Counties and Herefordshire.
A clear look at Sam Northeast's landmark innings, with the batting details that made it hang together.
The piece stays close to Sam Northeast's 335 not out at Lord's and what it felt like from the middle: the rhythm, the timing, the quiet when it all starts to click, and the strain it puts on the bowlers.
A steady cricket conversation that links Kolkata memory with the quieter work of county life in Wales.
Bavia Doshi's move from Kolkata to Cardiff gives the conversation its shape. It is strongest when it stays close to cricket culture: a cricket mad family, a city that moved from football toward cricket, and the pull of Eden Gardens.
A modest cup opens into Welsh cricket, pottery, and heritage history.
A small china cup becomes the doorway into Welsh cricket history, and the episode treats that turn with steady care. What starts as a museum find opens into pottery, place, ambition, and a cricket story shaped by local industry and long-held collections.
Local cricket, score by score.
Cricket analysis with the lid off.
Loose talk, sharp turns, real feeling.
Cricket reaction with memory and nerve.
The episode visits Gorsainan Cricket Club for its second women’s softball tournament.
The Museum of Welsh Cricket Podcast turns from people to a small china cup that has sat in the Amgueddfa Cymru collection for more than 70 years.
The podcast opens with the news of Tom Banton's 371 for Somerset.
The Museum of Welsh Cricket marks Hugh Morris, MBE, with a replay from his 2023 conversation with Dr Andrew Hignall.
Mark Portsmouth is remembered warmly at Mumbles Cricket Club.
Toby Radford describes a coaching method built on “keep it simple” thinking, root-cause diagnosis, and the idea that batting problems are usually linked.
The Museum of Welsh Cricket Podcast episode focuses on the Harrison Allen Bowl, a Pembrokeshire competition that Nick Evans places back to a 1949 final between Narberth and Cresseli at the School of Artillery in Manabier.
Museum of Welsh Cricket Podcast Episode 160 looks back at 2025 while opening with tributes to Hugh Morris, the former Glamorgan opener, England managing director, and MBE recipient who scored 2,276 runs in 1990 and 233 not out against Warwickshire in 1997.
Dr David Owen OBE says he has been a Glamorgan member since 1953, first went to St Helens for Glamorgan versus Australia in 1953, and still treats Wesley Hall's first ball at Parkhouse as his biggest cricket memory.
Steven Rheingold traces a cricket path from Cape Town to Stanmore, Middlesex age-group cricket, Cardiff University, and Glamorgan's 2021 Royal London One Day Cup squad.
Henry Hurl traces a path from Lisvane and Monmouth School to Glamorgan, England under-19s, and Cardiff UCCE, with Andrew Flintoff and Michael Yardy among the coaches he names.
Glamorgan supporters at Sophia Gardens describe promotion to Division One as the season’s defining outcome, with Phil Steele calling the county championship the “blue ribbon” of cricket.
Mark Davis sits down for a warm, reflective conversation about a cricket life that began in Britain Ferry and carried him into county cricket.
The Museum of Welsh Cricket Podcast bonus episode records the first Walkers and Talkers event at Sophia Gardens, where about 80 people gathered to hear Matthew Maynard speak about his cricketing life.
Museum of Welsh Cricket Podcast brings together Glamorgan Women captain Lauren Parfitt, wicketkeeper Georgia Parfitt, and leg-spinner Nicole Reid as they trace how each started cricket through family, siblings, or watching Lauren play.
Kimla Cricket Club’s centenary is anchored by Mike Price, who found three battered suitcases of scorebooks ranging from 1925 to 1985 and used them to reconstruct the club’s past.
Glamorgan's promotion back to the first division after 20 years and 284 Division 2 games anchors this review of the year, with Phil Steele linking the result to Kieran Carlson, Colin Ingram, Chris Cook, and Ben Kelleway.
The episode follows a special visit from Australia to Swansea Cricket Club and the St Helens Archive.
The Museum of Welsh Cricket Podcast visits the cricket club as it celebrates its 150th anniversary.
The Museum of Welsh Cricket podcast speaks with Bavia Doshi from Glamorgan's media team, and the conversation opens far beyond the county itself.
Gowerton Cricket Club's 1975 Hague Village Trophy win is revisited through the voices of the surviving team.
The episode opens with Dickie Bird's death and looks back to his first-class score against Glamorgan at Bradford in 1959.
The Museum of Welsh Cricket Podcasts looks at three Glamorgan women who scored hundreds this season.
The Museum of Welsh Cricket Podcast captures the 2025 rematch between Hay-on-Wye Cricket Club and the celebrity Authors XI during the Hay Literary Festival.
Toby Radford joins the Museum of Welsh Cricket Podcast, and the conversation opens with a family cricket memory from Caerphilly.
Jill Matthews, 90, says she was born in Roath in 1934 and spent her whole life in Cardiff, where street games, wartime routines, and school sport shaped her childhood.
This episode features an interview with Andy Brassington, founder of Walkers and Talkers, and Mark Frost from Glamorgan, discussing how the social inclusion initiative started during COVID-19 to combat loneliness through walking and talking.
Brad Wadland discusses his journey from a late-starting cricketer to a successful player-coach, covering his experiences in Wales, Australia, and Zimbabwe, his coaching philosophy, and Swansea's club successes, while sharing insights on developing Welsh cricket.