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LISTEN BACK TO SIOBAHN TELLING US ABOUT HER ROLE AT KENT CRICKET CLUB AND MUCH MORE. · The Folkestone & Hythe Sports Podcast

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  Speaker 1: Good morning.
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  Speaker 2: This is Kevin Sports very daily Lion solo today on
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  Speaker 2: the Saturday Sports Show as my partner in crime, Adi
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  Speaker 2: Dawks is on Seasiders Radio. He's doing commentary down at
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  Speaker 2: on the Longer Coast there at Whitehawk, which is the
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  Speaker 2: other side of Brighton as folks that in Victor have
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  Speaker 2: an away game in West Sussex. However, we have an
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  Speaker 2: awesome show for you today. In the studio we have
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  Speaker 2: Shiv Bunney who is employed by the Kent Cricket Club
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  Speaker 2: Boy' Talent Pathway Senior Operations Exit. Yes it is a metthfault,
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  Speaker 2: but she was going to tell us well exactly what
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  Speaker 2: she does in her role very shortly. We're also going
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  Speaker 2: to try and cramp from a local sport in if
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  Speaker 2: we've got time, because I think we've got plenty to
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  Speaker 2: talk about this morning, try to get the show on
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  Speaker 2: the road. I like to start with the classic track
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  Speaker 2: in mind I'm an oldiest.
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  Speaker 1: It's going to take us back to the sixties now.
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  Speaker 2: This is especially for friends of mine that I spoke
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  Speaker 2: to on the phone. I haven't spoken to since I
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  Speaker 2: went to school. As the Wonder's the wonderful side of.
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  Speaker 1: Facebook can be so what I'm gonna do. I'm going
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  Speaker 1: to play you.
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  Speaker 2: This songs and you take us all back to the days,
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  Speaker 2: back in North London as a children royal, back in
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  Speaker 2: the sixties.
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  Speaker 1: This is Dave Club five, Glad, although well Dave Club
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  Speaker 1: five there, did that tall you back to the sixties
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  Speaker 1: or what? Yeah?
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  Speaker 2: So I want to say good morning to Barry and
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  Speaker 2: Lynn in Spain and a little story there. And Lynn
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  Speaker 2: tracked me down on Facebook and my husband Barry, I
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  Speaker 2: went to school with him when I was just eleven
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  Speaker 2: to sixteen, and that he doesn't do social media and
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  Speaker 2: he admits it.
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  Speaker 1: Anyway, So I had a text.
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  Speaker 2: Call with Lynn and then the phone went and it
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  Speaker 2: was a strange, strange ring tone. You know what you think, Oh,
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  Speaker 2: something's not right here.
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  Speaker 1: Anyway, it was Barry.
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  Speaker 2: Calling me from Spain and we had a chat on
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  Speaker 2: the phone for half an hour and.
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  Speaker 1: It's just like we've only seen each other yesterday. It
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  Speaker 1: was great. Anyway.
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  Speaker 2: It might be playing them another song later on in
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  Speaker 2: the show if we get time. So let's do some sports,
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  Speaker 2: shall we. Now, I'd like to welcome to the show
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  Speaker 2: SHIV today. Now, Shiv, how are you?
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  Speaker 3: I am great? Thank you?
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  Speaker 2: How are you yeah, good, good, love you to see
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  Speaker 2: you and coming in at such short notice. Now you're
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  Speaker 2: currently employed by Kent County Cricket Club, is that right?
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  Speaker 3: I am indeed yes.
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  Speaker 1: So what is your role at the club?
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  Speaker 3: So I am the Boys' Talent Pathway Senior Operations EXAC.
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  Speaker 1: Well what about do you put that on your CV?
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  Speaker 1: Do you?
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  Speaker 2: So?
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  Speaker 1: What more can we do?
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  Speaker 2: So just to explain to our listeners, what is the
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  Speaker 2: whatever it was you said?
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  Speaker 3: So my role essentially is just making sure that everything
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  Speaker 3: runs smoothly behind the scenes. So I will book grounds
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  Speaker 3: for fixtures, I will sort catering, hotels, trance sport, even
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  Speaker 3: got the joy of arranging a tour that I don't
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  Speaker 3: get to go on. But it's all the stuff that
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  Speaker 3: you don't see. I just don't coach. That's the only thing.
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  Speaker 3: I can't catch a cold let a loanable.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, it sounds a very job that can change any
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  Speaker 2: time during the day. So let's take about Let's turn
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  Speaker 2: a clock back now. I mean, were you support you
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  Speaker 2: at school and did you bunk off school?
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  Speaker 1: Tell us about that.
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  Speaker 3: I was really good at school. I was really good
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  Speaker 3: at school. I was also very sporty, so I used
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  Speaker 3: to swim and trampoline for the County when I lived
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  Speaker 3: in Lincolnshire, so it's very very sporty. I loved my
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  Speaker 3: sport and then as I got older, I moved down
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  Speaker 3: to Kent and didn't really do that as much. But
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  Speaker 3: my boyfriend at the time loved a bit of cricket
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  Speaker 3: and it was watchingmen be bored or watchumen do something.
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  Speaker 3: So I saw somebody one day with pretty colored pens
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  Speaker 3: and I was like, oh, that's a bit of me.
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  Speaker 3: Let's have a look at that, and discovered scoring.
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  Speaker 1: Scoring.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, well, in the actual fact, that is where we
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  Speaker 2: had a chat. It was it was quite a while ago,
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  Speaker 2: but I was down at three HRes and I saw
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  Speaker 2: you scoring for a folcusting game. Yes, And first of
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  Speaker 2: all I thought, well that's a bit unusual a female scorer,
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  Speaker 2: So went over and had a chat and how long
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  Speaker 2: was you down at Folkston?
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  Speaker 3: Then I was at folksing for seven or eight years,
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  Speaker 3: I believe. Yeah, so I've been scoring for over twenty now,
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  Speaker 3: but I was at Folks for seven or eight years.
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  Speaker 3: And from the scoring it as it does in local
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  Speaker 3: clubs with volunteers, it spirals a little bit and I
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  Speaker 3: became membership secretary. I was one of the under eleven's
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  Speaker 3: coaches for several years and I'd like to point out
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  Speaker 3: that they were undefeated for my final years.
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  Speaker 2: Wow, the scoring at that level hasn't seemed to have
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  Speaker 2: changed in all the years. I mean a long long
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  Speaker 2: time ago I played cricket and it was the same
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  Speaker 2: old book and signs from the umpire. I mean now
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  Speaker 2: you've moved on to Kent which is a county standard.
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  Speaker 1: The scoring.
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  Speaker 2: Have you been in a sort of a score box
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  Speaker 2: when they're another big mates match?
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  Speaker 1: I have.
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  Speaker 3: I've scored for the two's. I've scored a women's match
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  Speaker 3: as well when we've been short, So it's a shift.
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  Speaker 3: Can you help out? And yeah, of course scoring as
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  Speaker 3: a whole has kind of evolved now, even at Folkston level.
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  Speaker 3: It's now done on.
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  Speaker 1: A computer electronic. Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, we like a backup because you never know what technology.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, oh you did right and having a few problems
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  Speaker 2: here this morning, but yeah, I know exactly what you mean.
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  Speaker 2: So this transformation from school with boyfriend into sport, was
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  Speaker 2: it something.
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  Speaker 1: That was easy or did you sort of take to
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  Speaker 1: it straight away?
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  Speaker 3: I sort of took to it straight away. I love stats.
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  Speaker 3: I love colors, So if I can make stats look
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  Speaker 3: pretty with colors, then I'm interested.
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  Speaker 2: Right, Okay, No, We're starting another season actually down at Folks,
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  Speaker 2: and I do believe they, as they often do, they've
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  Speaker 2: got good connections with Kent. They've got a youth team
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  Speaker 2: or a junior team.
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  Speaker 3: Come we have We have got a Kent under eighteens
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  Speaker 3: game versus Folks on first eleven and that is going
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  Speaker 3: to be on the nineteenth of April, right, and that's
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  Speaker 3: free to come and watch. But that would be good fun.
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  Speaker 3: I won't I will be scoring, actually.
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  Speaker 1: Will you?
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  Speaker 2: I will be scoring a right, Yeah? Can you little
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  Speaker 2: sneak a little one in? You know, there's no one notices,
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  Speaker 2: you know for Kent. Yeah he's down to the last
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  Speaker 2: over and but yeah, I'll get down to the to
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  Speaker 2: the three hels and watch them as often as I can.
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  Speaker 2: In fact, last year I had a lot of them
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  Speaker 2: in for the youth section. And I looked on the
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  Speaker 2: Kent Your Kent County website and there's so much going on.
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  Speaker 2: It's such a big website. There's so many jobs, so
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  Speaker 2: many functions. Yes, I was, I was pleasantly surprised to
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  Speaker 2: be honest, because I am I right. You've only got
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  Speaker 2: a pathway for boys, but you've got a pathway for girls.
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  Speaker 3: We do. We've got one for each. We've got girls
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  Speaker 3: and boys pathway.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, and do you get involved with the girls or
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  Speaker 2: do they ever go on tour together or anything like that.
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  Speaker 3: We play a few friends matches together at the start
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  Speaker 3: of the year. It's generally we play a year up
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  Speaker 3: in the girl so the under thirteen boys will play
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  Speaker 3: the under fourteen girls. It's usually a very good game.
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  Speaker 3: It's very very competitive.
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  Speaker 2: And do they actually get the chance to play on
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  Speaker 2: the on the Canterbury pitch or do these games go
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  Speaker 2: out into the rural Lots of.
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  Speaker 3: Them are rural clubs. We try to get as many
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  Speaker 3: clubs involved as we can because it also helps with
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  Speaker 3: supporting local venues. But are under eighteens will play a
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  Speaker 3: couple of games at Beckenham, which is obviously our other
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  Speaker 3: home ground. It's our metropolitan home ground, but it's nice
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  Speaker 3: to play at local grounds.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, good, Okay, So we're gonna have a little break now,
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  Speaker 2: We're going to play a bit of music, but we
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  Speaker 2: will come back. We've got plenty of time and there's
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  Speaker 2: loads to get through now. I think you like this one, don't.
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  Speaker 3: You, Sweet Caroli?
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  Speaker 1: It is so is.
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  Speaker 2: There is there a reason for this and either the
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  Speaker 2: team sing away to it or is it just something
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  Speaker 2: that you actually love.
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  Speaker 3: It's obviously very connected to cricket, but the T twenty
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  Speaker 3: last Finals when we won a couple of years ago,
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  Speaker 3: that that was the song that summed everything up and
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  Speaker 3: the emotions and the environment were phenomenal. What this was playing.
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  Speaker 1: They're funny. It's a song that stood the test of time.
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  Speaker 2: I was watching I don't know, some hull retro gold
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  Speaker 2: TV show and Neil Diamond came on and it looked
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  Speaker 2: like he just recorded it, you know, lovely black hair
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  Speaker 2: and even my partner Sue, she said, cool, he's a
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  Speaker 2: good looking lads, you know, because but that song was
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  Speaker 2: just I mean, it's been through sport and clubs have
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  Speaker 2: taken to it and it's just a fantastic feel good song,
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  Speaker 2: isn't it.
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  Speaker 3: It's a brilliant song.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, so let's have a little listener.
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  Speaker 2: This is Neil Diamond and Sweet Caroline.
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  Speaker 1: Weary Big gir Lego Live Radio.
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  Speaker 2: We've got knobs falling off of things and everything. Anyway,
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  Speaker 2: that was Neil Diamond, Sweet Caroline, and she get back
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  Speaker 2: in the chair. She's dancing and pumping all over the place. Okay,
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  Speaker 2: so now before we go any further, I just want
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  Speaker 2: to tell you about a little night I had last night. Now,
• 10:21
  Speaker 2: last night, I was a quiz master at a quiz
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  Speaker 2: at the Three Hills raising money for a friend of
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  Speaker 2: mine who's running the London Marathon. We're raising money for
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  Speaker 2: the Aspinll Foundation. It was a brilliant night because we
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  Speaker 2: actually raised one two hundred and eighty four pounds.
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  Speaker 1: Now, there was a raffle, right, and I thought should
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  Speaker 1: I buy some tickets? So I did.
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  Speaker 2: I bought five US worth of tickets and I gave
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  Speaker 2: them to my partner Sue, who was doing the scoring.
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  Speaker 1: So I thought, well, I don't I won't know anything
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  Speaker 1: about it.
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  Speaker 2: And so I was going around calling out the numbers
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  Speaker 2: and I called out this number, number thirty and I
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  Speaker 2: was going number thirty and four. Oh, no one's got
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  Speaker 2: it anyway. Then Sue says, oh, it's your ticket. So
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  Speaker 2: I was, oh, great, So I'll come over and do
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  Speaker 2: you know what I won? I won oh and two
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  Speaker 2: tickets for Kent Cricket T twenty and for any time
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  Speaker 2: in twenty twenty six. So I've got a shive with
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  Speaker 2: me and I'm going to tap her up for a
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  Speaker 2: bottle of champagne and VIP seats and meet the players
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  Speaker 2: and have a lunch and dinner afterwards. So if you're listening, Keny,
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  Speaker 2: Cricket Club be prepared anyway shift.
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  Speaker 1: So I just want to throw that one.
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  Speaker 2: So let's go a little bit more in depth about
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  Speaker 2: the pathway of the boys. Now, it is a pathway,
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  Speaker 2: but where does that path start and where does it end?
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  Speaker 3: Well, obviously you have Club Cricket. That's where kids find
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  Speaker 3: their love for cricket. That's where they first get involved,
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  Speaker 3: and it's a beautiful thing. Club Cricket. We're so lucky
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  Speaker 3: around here that we've got so many clubs that are
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  Speaker 3: really passionate about pushing kids. And then after that we've
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  Speaker 3: got what's called the KRDP, which is knew that was
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  Speaker 3: only set up last year and that's the Kent Regional
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  Speaker 3: Development Program that starts under tens and the idea of
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  Speaker 3: that is from under tens to elevens and twelves, we
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  Speaker 3: teach them the basics and progress those skills.
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  Speaker 1: But where did his children come from?
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  Speaker 2: Were they recommended excuse me for their skills from other
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  Speaker 2: clubs and then they find their way to you.
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  Speaker 3: Well, the KRDP is actually an open nomination process, so
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  Speaker 3: absolutely anybody can nominate. So if you know your grandson's
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  Speaker 3: good at cricket, you can go. Actually, I'm going to
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  Speaker 3: go on the Kent website from the first of May
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  Speaker 3: and go this is this is I think you should
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  Speaker 3: have a look at him. And then they get invited
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  Speaker 3: to trials.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, right, and are the trials and once again are
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  Speaker 2: they in a rural ground or are they at.
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  Speaker 3: Last year they were done via region, so we've got
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  Speaker 3: five Northeast, Southwestern Central. This year we're doing it a
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  Speaker 3: little bit differently, so we're hoping to use both Beckenham
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  Speaker 3: and the St. Lawrence ground at Kent, and we are
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  Speaker 3: hoping to bring all the children in in their age
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  Speaker 3: groups and trial them over a number of weeks rather
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  Speaker 3: than in multiple venues that we've got all the best
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  Speaker 3: eyes on them. And then some children may be trialing
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  Speaker 3: for the KRDP, but they may be looked at and
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  Speaker 3: they go, actually, no, you'd compete in our county team,
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  Speaker 3: so they'd be offered a place in the county team instead.
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  Speaker 2: Is it a bit daunting for the children, and because
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  Speaker 2: they're coming in with a mixture of other children that
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  Speaker 2: they don't know, some of them a little bit out
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  Speaker 2: of their comfort zone.
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  Speaker 3: I think it depends on the child. So some will
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  Speaker 3: see their friends and people that they've played against and
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  Speaker 3: be like hey, hey, and some will put a lot
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  Speaker 3: of pressure on themselves to perform because they think this
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  Speaker 3: is what they have to do. It's not the case.
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  Speaker 3: Our coaches want them to be relaxed. We want them
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  Speaker 3: to have fun. We want them to make mistakes because
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  Speaker 3: you don't learn from being right all the time, so
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  Speaker 3: we want the kids to enjoy themselves.
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  Speaker 1: And just so, what age groups do you actually look after?
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  Speaker 3: So my personal age groups are the under thirteens, fourteens, fifteens,
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  Speaker 3: sixteens and eighteens, plus our academy, which includes three under
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  Speaker 3: nineteen players all right.
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  Speaker 1: Live on aside, you must have one hundred or more players.
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  Speaker 3: At least, because we don't just have the eleven because
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  Speaker 3: you never know about injuries and things. We have about
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  Speaker 3: fifteen to sixteen per team. So I've got close to
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  Speaker 3: two hundred boys that I look after. Plus I do
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  Speaker 3: help oversee things in the KRDP because it's there's over
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  Speaker 3: a thousand children in that. That's a huge job. So
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  Speaker 3: I do support with that, but that's not my main role.
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  Speaker 2: Right when you say, I mean they've got the children
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  Speaker 2: are so protected these days and they've got safeguarded office.
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  Speaker 2: Do you work alongside a safeguarding officer?
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  Speaker 3: I am one of the safeguard officers. Yes, I'm the
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  Speaker 3: pathway safeguarding office.
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  Speaker 1: I see. So your role is kind of two hats on?
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  Speaker 1: Is it?
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  Speaker 3: It is? It is indeed, and I love that because
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  Speaker 3: I'm very passionate about keeping kids safe in sport and
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  Speaker 3: them having somebody that they know they can talk to
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  Speaker 3: and be listened to.
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  Speaker 2: Right now, one thing I picked up on a post
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  Speaker 2: you put on celebrating your five.
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  Speaker 3: Years is it five years?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah? Five years at Kent was the pathway for the
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  Speaker 2: I've lost it now?
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  Speaker 1: Where is it?
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  Speaker 2: The into the county team and possibly in to England. Yes, well,
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  Speaker 2: so tell me about that. That must be really exciting.
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  Speaker 3: That's amazing when that happens, it's that's the pinnacle. So
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  Speaker 3: you've got the England under nineteen. Yeah, we've had Ben
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  Speaker 3: Hawkins play in well, he's played this year as well,
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  Speaker 3: and he's a phenomenal kid. Like all the boy We're
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  Speaker 3: so so lucky that the boys that we've had have
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  Speaker 3: all just been good people. So you want them to
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  Speaker 3: do well and when they do so, you've got and
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  Speaker 3: she's played englandon nineteens. You've got Jade Denley, You've got
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  Speaker 3: Ben Hawkins, all of these brilliant kids getting the opportunity
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  Speaker 3: to play and it's just this huge sense of pride.
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  Speaker 3: I do cry a little bit and my MOS's Mintel
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  Speaker 3: does bully me a little bit for it in a
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  Speaker 3: fun way. He's not horrible. We mock each other relentlessly.
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  Speaker 3: But it's what you do the job for, isn't it.
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  Speaker 2: You want the progress and be comfortable and be successful,
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  Speaker 2: don't you, and be proud of the fact that you've
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  Speaker 2: you've brought them up through the ranks and pushed them
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  Speaker 2: in the right direction. So when you get to the
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  Speaker 2: under nineteens, is the biggest one you jo for us?
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  Speaker 3: Yes?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, but at that age and some of them are
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  Speaker 2: they knocking on the door of the second team first team.
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  Speaker 3: The majority of them have already been playing the second
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  Speaker 3: team at that age and in some counties in some
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  Speaker 3: instances they've played for the first team as well. It
• 16:17
  Speaker 3: just depends obviously. Minor counties have different standards to major counties.
• 16:22
  Speaker 2: Yeah, right, are there many women in sport in Kent
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  Speaker 2: Cricket these days?
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  Speaker 3: Working as we have got so many incredible women working
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  Speaker 3: at Kink Cricket. They're all so driven and so passionate
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  Speaker 3: and we're actually finally getting a lot more women coaches
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  Speaker 3: as well into the women's side and doing development days
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  Speaker 3: with the men's side. So there's a lot more women
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  Speaker 3: than you'd think in cricket. Really it's good.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, it's really good.
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  Speaker 2: And the girls development side is that Is that as
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  Speaker 2: popular as the boys or is it kind of numbers
• 16:58
  Speaker 2: down a little bit?
• 16:58
  Speaker 3: It has app absolutely exploded in the last few years. Yes,
• 17:03
  Speaker 3: I do believe the hundreds something to do with that,
• 17:04
  Speaker 3: because it's put the cricket in the forefront and love
• 17:07
  Speaker 3: it or hate it, I've seen it being called the
• 17:09
  Speaker 3: Hindrance before. Love it or hate it, it's doing incredible
• 17:11
  Speaker 3: things for junior cricket, which is the future of cricket.
• 17:15
  Speaker 2: Right, I'll say you, we're going to have another little
• 17:17
  Speaker 2: break now and we've still got loads of time. But
• 17:19
  Speaker 2: I do a lot to get a bit of music in,
• 17:22
  Speaker 2: So I'm going to play this one. This is a
• 17:24
  Speaker 2: bit of a bit of a happy sad song. I
• 17:26
  Speaker 2: mean it's a great song. And this is again going
• 17:30
  Speaker 2: back in time. This is now there's a gentleman who
• 17:34
  Speaker 2: was the lead singer of this group and he kind
• 17:37
  Speaker 2: of he did a good Elvis impression. And one of
• 17:40
  Speaker 2: his favorite songs that you all hear at Christmas is
• 17:44
  Speaker 2: will belong with this Christmas that one, so you might
• 17:46
  Speaker 2: know who I'm talking about. But sadly it would have
• 17:49
  Speaker 2: been if he'd have been with us. It would have
• 17:50
  Speaker 2: been his eightieth birthday last week. Les Gray of Mud
• 17:55
  Speaker 2: sadly passed away in two thousand and four. He had
• 17:59
  Speaker 2: a heart attack whilst he was fighting a throat cancer.
• 18:02
  Speaker 2: Now for a singer, that must be the worst thing
• 18:05
  Speaker 2: that can happen to you. But anyway, his songs will
• 18:07
  Speaker 2: stand the test of time. He is living us at
• 18:09
  Speaker 2: a great legacy. So get your toes tap into this one.
• 18:12
  Speaker 2: This is Mud and tiger feet.
• 18:31
  Speaker 1: There we go.
• 18:32
  Speaker 2: That's mud there tiger feet. And I'll tell you what
• 18:35
  Speaker 2: I love flowing that one. At races especially, we do
• 18:39
  Speaker 2: a race over at tilts and the runners are so lucky.
• 18:44
  Speaker 2: Before the it's not a zoo, I get told off
• 18:46
  Speaker 2: a corner at zoo, it's a wild animal park. They
• 18:48
  Speaker 2: do get to run around the around the animal park
• 18:51
  Speaker 2: a couple of laps.
• 18:52
  Speaker 1: It's only a five k but as.
• 18:55
  Speaker 2: The runners are going out, I play this one tiger
• 18:57
  Speaker 2: Feet and it really does get them rocking.
• 18:59
  Speaker 1: It really does, so look out for that one.
• 19:02
  Speaker 2: How it's five k's it's about September October time, so
• 19:06
  Speaker 2: you got plenty of time to get training.
• 19:08
  Speaker 1: Now hang on, I'm gonna have a little cough. Excuse me.
• 19:11
  Speaker 2: I've lost my throat as usual after dealing with one
• 19:16
  Speaker 2: hundred people last night a quiz night, and quizes normally
• 19:19
  Speaker 2: go right in the first half. Then they ever break
• 19:22
  Speaker 2: and then the alcohol kicks in and get noisier and
• 19:25
  Speaker 2: radio but and I have to get louder and louder.
• 19:28
  Speaker 1: But it was a great night.
• 19:29
  Speaker 2: Anyway, back to the This is Kevin Daley on radio folks,
• 19:32
  Speaker 2: and we are chatting with Shiv from Kent County Cricket Club.
• 19:36
  Speaker 2: Now she've I've forgotten what we was going to talk about.
• 19:39
  Speaker 2: We've got low much, so much to talk about.
• 19:41
  Speaker 1: Oh, Yeah.
• 19:42
  Speaker 2: Now you're telling me off here that your eighteens went
• 19:46
  Speaker 2: to Eastbourne?
• 19:47
  Speaker 1: Was it?
• 19:47
  Speaker 3: They did?
• 19:48
  Speaker 1: Yes, and that a good one.
• 19:50
  Speaker 3: They did really well. I'm really proud of that. We
• 19:51
  Speaker 3: won both games. So a preseason friendly against Eastbourne College,
• 19:55
  Speaker 3: two T twenties and absolutely smashed it.
• 19:57
  Speaker 1: Right.
• 19:58
  Speaker 2: Okay, So let's for the initiative and initiate people that
• 20:02
  Speaker 2: don't know it much, you know, let's explain some of
• 20:05
  Speaker 2: the things. So T twenty? What is T twenty? Someone
• 20:09
  Speaker 2: wants to go to someone like me, if you like,
• 20:12
  Speaker 2: I know what it is. I've been there before. But
• 20:13
  Speaker 2: someone like me, you win surprise and it says, oh
• 20:16
  Speaker 2: you've got a you got some tickets to go to
• 20:18
  Speaker 2: the T twenty?
• 20:19
  Speaker 1: What is it?
• 20:20
  Speaker 3: T twenty is a chance to come and watched fast
• 20:22
  Speaker 3: paced cricket, great atmosphere, great environment, with a result in
• 20:27
  Speaker 3: a few hours, rather than sitting there all day or
• 20:30
  Speaker 3: for four days. You get a result in a few hours.
• 20:32
  Speaker 3: You see some big shots, You see the big names
• 20:34
  Speaker 3: come out and they play hard.
• 20:37
  Speaker 1: They don't know.
• 20:38
  Speaker 2: I don't know from my experience that's been up there
• 20:41
  Speaker 2: quite a few times. It's take no prisoners, it's go
• 20:45
  Speaker 2: for it. It's none of this had it away for
• 20:47
  Speaker 2: play safe. It doesn't happen in T twenty, does it
• 20:50
  Speaker 2: not at all? It's now rasumetas, isn't it. If there's
• 20:53
  Speaker 2: a six or four, I've made a mistake. The first
• 20:55
  Speaker 2: time I went, I thought, what's that box down there?
• 20:58
  Speaker 2: I didn't just a big black box and you know
• 21:00
  Speaker 2: what's coming.
• 21:01
  Speaker 1: But yeah, it was.
• 21:02
  Speaker 2: Right by a speaker, and every time someone hit a
• 21:05
  Speaker 2: four or a six or a wicket and the old
• 21:08
  Speaker 2: speaker went up, there was pyrotechnist went off, and there's
• 21:12
  Speaker 2: big screen.
• 21:13
  Speaker 1: You get replays.
• 21:14
  Speaker 2: So it's not just about, as you say, willow on Liver,
• 21:18
  Speaker 2: it's a real razmataz type of game. But looking at
• 21:22
  Speaker 2: some of your pictures, actually I see you with like
• 21:26
  Speaker 2: a microphone going around the ground. So that doesn't sound
• 21:30
  Speaker 2: like safeguarding some movie. What was that all about?
• 21:32
  Speaker 3: That was a thing for sponsors, so you need sponsors
• 21:35
  Speaker 3: to run businesses. One of our sponsors had the interval
• 21:39
  Speaker 3: challenges and they also did mid game challenges, and my
• 21:42
  Speaker 3: job was to run around with a microphone with a
• 21:44
  Speaker 3: camera crew and basically tell people they really want to
• 21:48
  Speaker 3: do the challenge for me, And they won little prize
• 21:51
  Speaker 3: is and they went on the big screen and it
• 21:52
  Speaker 3: was always good fun. It got much easier to convince
• 21:55
  Speaker 3: people to do it as the game progressed.
• 21:57
  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, that's right.
• 21:58
  Speaker 2: Yeah, with the summer evenings and the lagger flowing. Yes,
• 22:02
  Speaker 2: but yes, so the challenges you start, if I remember rightly,
• 22:06
  Speaker 2: you take them up when you start asking questions, don't
• 22:08
  Speaker 2: you get the challenge?
• 22:09
  Speaker 3: There are a few different ones because we do friendly
• 22:12
  Speaker 3: family days and we invite kids along it. Some days
• 22:14
  Speaker 3: it's the kids that have to do the internal challenge,
• 22:17
  Speaker 3: and those games are catching games and hitting games. They're
• 22:20
  Speaker 3: really good fun and just getting the kids involved. Otherwise
• 22:23
  Speaker 3: the adults. It's fun watching the adults sometimes because sometimes
• 22:27
  Speaker 3: they have to also do the catching games. And like
• 22:29
  Speaker 3: you say, summer evenings, Laga's flowing and hand eye isn't
• 22:32
  Speaker 3: the best.
• 22:33
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 22:33
  Speaker 2: I do remember being at one game one evening and
• 22:35
  Speaker 2: it's like what you see on YouTube, want to tell
• 22:37
  Speaker 2: you or whatever. There was someone who here at six
• 22:41
  Speaker 2: and the chap in the crowd he called it yes,
• 22:43
  Speaker 2: and they called it on camera, and I don't know
• 22:46
  Speaker 2: he won something for it. I don't know whether he
• 22:48
  Speaker 2: won a special prize for the night. There was summer
• 22:52
  Speaker 2: going on. But yeah, the ball was coming over and
• 22:55
  Speaker 2: there's some flats at the back.
• 22:57
  Speaker 1: I mean they've got wired there.
• 22:58
  Speaker 2: Oh no, they're going to go through the w Then
• 23:00
  Speaker 2: his hand pops up from nowhere and call the ball
• 23:03
  Speaker 2: and a big cheer went up, and yeah he won
• 23:07
  Speaker 2: a little prize for that. So now I've also got
• 23:11
  Speaker 2: down here that guard of honor. Now, as you know,
• 23:14
  Speaker 2: I've been to the games and I've seen I've seen
• 23:18
  Speaker 2: juniors participating from other clubs, other various sports and things,
• 23:23
  Speaker 2: So what is special about guard of honor?
• 23:25
  Speaker 3: The Guard of honor is actually my favorite part of
• 23:28
  Speaker 3: match day ever, And there's so much that goes into
• 23:30
  Speaker 3: match day, but this is my favorite bit. You get
• 23:33
  Speaker 3: juniors from local clubs and they're usually teeny tiny juniors,
• 23:36
  Speaker 3: so we're talking five six years old, and they get
• 23:38
  Speaker 3: to welcome the players onto the pitch. So they get
• 23:40
  Speaker 3: to get high fives with the mascots and with the players,
• 23:44
  Speaker 3: and they weigh their little Kent flags. But they are
• 23:46
  Speaker 3: so excited and my job is to hype them up.
• 23:48
  Speaker 3: And I love that because I can hype them up
• 23:50
  Speaker 3: and hand them back to parents.
• 23:51
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I'll bet their parents love you.
• 23:55
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 23:56
  Speaker 2: I think one of the times I went there was
• 23:58
  Speaker 2: I think they were called the Vista Twist and one
• 24:02
  Speaker 2: of my colleagues I was working with at the moment,
• 24:04
  Speaker 2: one of her daughters was in it and yeah, they
• 24:07
  Speaker 2: were doing their little cheerleader type stuff. Weren't they twirling?
• 24:10
  Speaker 2: That's right, toiling and all that.
• 24:12
  Speaker 1: Yeah, the crowd love it.
• 24:13
  Speaker 3: Yeah, I hoped to arrange that that was my kids' club,
• 24:15
  Speaker 3: so they were going to world oh right, and they
• 24:18
  Speaker 3: came along. We're hopefully going to get something like that
• 24:20
  Speaker 3: again soon because the girls loved it. At first they
• 24:22
  Speaker 3: were like, oh, it's cricket and by the end of it,
• 24:24
  Speaker 3: that's it. They were six, Get me in the air
• 24:26
  Speaker 3: and they had so much fun. They loved it.
• 24:28
  Speaker 1: So do you do you write?
• 24:29
  Speaker 2: Is that part of your job to get to clubs
• 24:32
  Speaker 2: and ask if they want or do they write to you?
• 24:34
  Speaker 3: And no, that's a completely different department. So they contact Tanya,
• 24:38
  Speaker 3: who is our operations lead, like she is the guru
• 24:42
  Speaker 3: of game day, Like, if you need something done, it
• 24:45
  Speaker 3: goes through Tanya. She's incredible. But they all contact her
• 24:49
  Speaker 3: and they get pulled out of a hat as to
• 24:50
  Speaker 3: which games they're doing. And it's all the chance to
• 24:53
  Speaker 3: shine clubs. So our foundation, the Kent Cricket Foundation, work
• 24:56
  Speaker 3: with chances to shine and those clubs get invited.
• 24:59
  Speaker 1: All right, brilliant.
• 25:00
  Speaker 2: So but your teams have had some success or you
• 25:04
  Speaker 2: have from what you posted. Yes, so we've done T
• 25:06
  Speaker 2: twenty now One Day Cup champions.
• 25:09
  Speaker 3: That was the very next year. So at the time
• 25:11
  Speaker 3: it was the Metro Bank One Day Cup and that's
• 25:13
  Speaker 3: a fifty over game which is essentially what plays at
• 25:16
  Speaker 3: clubs as well around the week, around weekends and things.
• 25:19
  Speaker 3: But we went up to trent Bridge for that one.
• 25:21
  Speaker 3: So we're in Nottingham for that one, so we've got
• 25:23
  Speaker 3: to go home for a few days, right, And I
• 25:25
  Speaker 3: took isaacin with me, and I'd like to point out
• 25:28
  Speaker 3: that both the T twenty victory, the One Day Cup
• 25:30
  Speaker 3: victory and the other one that I mentioned were all
• 25:32
  Speaker 3: around my birthday. So my theory is if we get
• 25:34
  Speaker 3: to a final near my birthday, we've won.
• 25:36
  Speaker 1: You've won it. Yeah, brilliant. Okay, So you mentioned Isaac,
• 25:40
  Speaker 1: who's Isaac?
• 25:41
  Speaker 3: Isaac is my son? Yes, and you've got a daughter
• 25:43
  Speaker 3: as well, I do, Elena Jade.
• 25:45
  Speaker 1: Yes, and you tell me they're on holiday at the moment.
• 25:47
  Speaker 3: They are there in France enjoying themselves.
• 25:49
  Speaker 1: Oh, Elena, that's all my friends are know. But what
• 25:56
  Speaker 1: do I do? Now? I understand your mum's listening. My
• 25:59
  Speaker 1: mum is your mom's name.
• 26:01
  Speaker 3: She's Mary, Mary.
• 26:03
  Speaker 1: Hello Mary, And I'll tell you what we're going to do.
• 26:05
  Speaker 2: We're going to play a special song for you on
• 26:08
  Speaker 2: Let's just make sure I've got the right one. I
• 26:09
  Speaker 2: don't want to hit the button and it's the wrong one.
• 26:11
  Speaker 1: There we go.
• 26:12
  Speaker 2: I think you love this, she tells me. It's one
• 26:14
  Speaker 2: of your favorite, So get pumping and get rocking. This
• 26:17
  Speaker 2: is Meatloaf, Bad out of Hell's streaming and.
• 26:30
  Speaker 1: The Father Hell, and we're down in the valley tonight
• 26:35
  Speaker 1: on back to you. There you go, Mary, Bad out
• 26:47
  Speaker 1: of Hell.
• 26:50
  Speaker 2: She was telling us that it reminds of her of
• 26:52
  Speaker 2: school days when you were pumping and rocking taking.
• 26:55
  Speaker 1: Her to school. Whereas I just made that bit up.
• 26:58
  Speaker 2: Really, but we'll get the truth in a minute.
• 27:03
  Speaker 1: So about her health, that was for Mary.
• 27:06
  Speaker 2: Sheev's mum listening in Okay, So I just want to
• 27:09
  Speaker 2: diverge a little bit because tomorrow is a Brighton marathon
• 27:13
  Speaker 2: and I've got a couple of readouts to do very
• 27:15
  Speaker 2: short ones, but I think they you know, if I
• 27:17
  Speaker 2: don't do it now, I'll miss the moment. So now
• 27:20
  Speaker 2: this is a little message from Lucy May helliwell she's
• 27:24
  Speaker 2: a voting she wrote in to me, and because it's
• 27:27
  Speaker 2: the first ever marathon tomorrow, she's running for the charity
• 27:30
  Speaker 2: Mote and neur Own Disease in memory of her Auntie
• 27:33
  Speaker 2: who've passed away in twenty twelve, and she's been pleased
• 27:36
  Speaker 2: with her fundraising progress. She's raised over six hundred and
• 27:38
  Speaker 2: fifty pounds for the charity. She's been training for many weeks,
• 27:41
  Speaker 2: which has been challenging as she's experienced some injuries which
• 27:45
  Speaker 2: have impeded the progress at times. However, she feels super
• 27:48
  Speaker 2: excited and ready to race on Sunday, and she's got
• 27:51
  Speaker 2: some great supporters coming to cheer her on and she's
• 27:54
  Speaker 2: looking forward to seeing them around the course. So good
• 27:57
  Speaker 2: luck to you at Lucy May Brighton. I just check
• 27:59
  Speaker 2: the the forecast this morning for Brighton. Well for runners,
• 28:03
  Speaker 2: it's not too bad, ten to eleven degrees, a bit
• 28:05
  Speaker 2: of drizzle, but there is a bit of a twenty
• 28:08
  Speaker 2: mile on our wind and wherever you are on the coast.
• 28:11
  Speaker 2: It's bound to copy one way or the other, isn't it.
• 28:13
  Speaker 2: So I'll just be ready for that now. I also
• 28:16
  Speaker 2: want to mention a friend of mine, a Brian Veeni.
• 28:18
  Speaker 2: Now Brian is running his first ever marathon in Brighton
• 28:21
  Speaker 2: tomorrow at the age of seventy one. Now, I used
• 28:24
  Speaker 2: to work with Brian, and back in the day I
• 28:27
  Speaker 2: was the fittest bloke on the Eurotunnel site and Brian
• 28:30
  Speaker 2: was overweight, he was smoking and he didn't do anything.
• 28:33
  Speaker 2: In recent years, he's lost loads of weight, he's turned
• 28:36
  Speaker 2: his life around thanks to run It, and he's just
• 28:39
  Speaker 2: done a brilliant challenge. Last year, him and his friend Pete,
• 28:43
  Speaker 2: they raised loads of money for prostate cancer. Now, his
• 28:46
  Speaker 2: friend Pete was diagnosed with prostate cancer in twenty sixteen,
• 28:50
  Speaker 2: but it was call early and now he's cancer free,
• 28:52
  Speaker 2: although he has to have checkups. Now Pete and his
• 28:55
  Speaker 2: great friends with Brian and Pete is running what they
• 28:57
  Speaker 2: call the virtual marathon is called London My Way. So
• 29:01
  Speaker 2: I'll want to wish them both the best of luck
• 29:03
  Speaker 2: for their marathons and their fundraising for prostate cancer. So
• 29:06
  Speaker 2: good luck to you Brian tomorrow and good luck to
• 29:09
  Speaker 2: you Pete in a couple of weeks time. So okay,
• 29:12
  Speaker 2: so we're back live in the studio. This is Kevin
• 29:14
  Speaker 2: Day on Radio Folks, and I'm joined by a Shiv
• 29:16
  Speaker 2: who's still there just speaking to her mum and a
• 29:20
  Speaker 2: mum's listening in and hopefully the two children in France
• 29:24
  Speaker 2: are listening in. If not, then they can hear the
• 29:26
  Speaker 2: show later on. So right, let's get back to my
• 29:31
  Speaker 2: list of things to talk about. I know it's not
• 29:34
  Speaker 2: really your job, but do the Kent County is there
• 29:38
  Speaker 2: somebody that actually goes into schools or encourages schools to
• 29:43
  Speaker 2: play cricket Because the sporting agenda when I went to
• 29:46
  Speaker 2: school it was cricket or football, but now, if you like,
• 29:50
  Speaker 2: it's not quite the same. So it's nice when people
• 29:53
  Speaker 2: go into schools. So do they have that connection They do.
• 29:56
  Speaker 3: We've got the Kent Cricket Foundation which used to be
• 29:59
  Speaker 3: the Community Trust. It's just changed and been rebranded and
• 30:03
  Speaker 3: they run the Chance to Shine and they go into
• 30:06
  Speaker 3: primary schools and they work with schools around the county
• 30:09
  Speaker 3: and run sessions it's such and they do the Walking Cricket.
• 30:13
  Speaker 3: They arrange all of that as well, so there's loads
• 30:15
  Speaker 3: for all ages that the foundation do.
• 30:17
  Speaker 2: They're brilliant, right, And I also did I spent quite
• 30:20
  Speaker 2: a long time studying the Kent County Cricket Club website
• 30:24
  Speaker 2: because there is so much on there. But I also
• 30:27
  Speaker 2: see that they do disability cricket, yes, and also senior cricket.
• 30:32
  Speaker 1: You know over I did write it down.
• 30:34
  Speaker 2: I think over forties and over fifties, sixties and seventies. Yes,
• 30:37
  Speaker 2: So that's great, isn't it. I mean I don't think
• 30:40
  Speaker 2: a lot of people like myself. I mean I kind
• 30:43
  Speaker 2: of keep an eye on sport and locally and sometimes
• 30:48
  Speaker 2: county wide. But this has pleasantly surprised me that Kent
• 30:51
  Speaker 2: do so much and.
• 30:53
  Speaker 1: I think it should give themselves a pat on the back.
• 30:56
  Speaker 2: And this is getting the word out locally what the
• 31:00
  Speaker 2: County Club are doing for the youngsters and for the
• 31:03
  Speaker 2: senior players that are here every day that want to
• 31:07
  Speaker 2: play cricket.
• 31:08
  Speaker 3: Absolutely.
• 31:08
  Speaker 2: Now, is there any other roles that you do, because
• 31:13
  Speaker 2: you'd think they do so much?
• 31:14
  Speaker 1: There is there anything we've missed?
• 31:16
  Speaker 2: As the time is now starting to run away with
• 31:18
  Speaker 2: us and I want to get any important points in
• 31:21
  Speaker 2: that you want to add, so achieve over to you.
• 31:24
  Speaker 3: Well, my role is essentially just making sure that our
• 31:28
  Speaker 3: children and the future of our cricket have the best
• 31:31
  Speaker 3: experience that they do. We manage our coaches, we make
• 31:34
  Speaker 3: sure they've got the correct qualifications, the correct legal qualifications.
• 31:39
  Speaker 3: Everybody has to be a certain standard and we want
• 31:43
  Speaker 3: the boys and the girls that can to have the
• 31:45
  Speaker 3: best and the team they've got is absolutely amazing. I mean,
• 31:48
  Speaker 3: my boss is Min Patel. He used to play for England.
• 31:50
  Speaker 3: He's a legend. He's one of the best people I've met.
• 31:54
  Speaker 3: And his team, he's put together this incredible team for
• 31:57
  Speaker 3: the boys. In the women, you've got Lucy Arman. Luc
• 32:00
  Speaker 3: used to play for Kent Women and she's now got
• 32:02
  Speaker 3: her team together for the girls and the women's side,
• 32:05
  Speaker 3: and they're brilliant as well. And we're finally, like I said,
• 32:08
  Speaker 3: getting more women into cricket coaching as well, which is
• 32:12
  Speaker 3: for the girls brilliant because it's somebody that they can
• 32:14
  Speaker 3: look up to. And in the boys, the boys, like
• 32:17
  Speaker 3: I said, they're working with Adam Riley, they're working with
• 32:19
  Speaker 3: Ed Stamford who used to play Kent two's they've got
• 32:22
  Speaker 3: Min Patel who was Kent and England. They've got these
• 32:24
  Speaker 3: people that they can look up to and aspire to
• 32:26
  Speaker 3: be like. But they can also talk to them about
• 32:28
  Speaker 3: the journey, and everybody's journey is different.
• 32:32
  Speaker 1: It's great because those guys.
• 32:34
  Speaker 2: I mean, if you're a youngster and you're talking to
• 32:36
  Speaker 2: min Patel, it probably doesn't mean much.
• 32:38
  Speaker 1: It's just is your coach.
• 32:39
  Speaker 2: Yeah, but if you go back home and start googling
• 32:43
  Speaker 2: him and you realize that you know, this guy has
• 32:47
  Speaker 2: got so much experience and he's passing it on. Yes,
• 32:50
  Speaker 2: it's like in actual fact, there's a very similarity down at.
• 32:54
  Speaker 1: Folks and Rugby Club. Folks and Rugby Club.
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  Speaker 2: The Girl's got a ladies team and one of their
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  Speaker 2: members used to play for them and went on to
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  Speaker 2: captain England, Catherine Spencer. She was a higher profile captain
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  Speaker 2: and the other week she turned out for the ladies team.
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  Speaker 1: Brilliant. Yeah, And I was.
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  Speaker 2: Talking to a guest last week and she was saying
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  Speaker 2: that when when Catherine plays, it lifts all the team.
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  Speaker 1: They're all inspired.
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  Speaker 2: They they seem to Oh, Cathrie's playing, we better have
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  Speaker 2: a good, good game today.
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  Speaker 1: So there you go.
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  Speaker 2: So it does make a difference having these senior players
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  Speaker 2: passing on their experience, and we.
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  Speaker 3: Also have the pros as well, Like we're so lucky
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  Speaker 3: at Kent that our pros are hands on, like we
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  Speaker 3: have Matt Parkinson, Matt Quinn, Mikey Cohen. They all come
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  Speaker 3: and help out at sessions, Joe Denley, they all come
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  Speaker 3: and help out at sessions with these kids. And the
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  Speaker 3: women's team do the same as well. It's it's bringing
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  Speaker 3: everybody together because essentially ours strapline says together, we are Kent,
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  Speaker 3: and it's bringing everything together.
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  Speaker 1: Brilliant.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, well, I've got to Squore's one more song in
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  Speaker 2: and then we might just have a last quick word
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  Speaker 2: with Shiv. But I'm going to change it around a
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  Speaker 2: little bit now. Now, this lady was on the TV
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  Speaker 2: the other day and me and Missus Ferrett have seen
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  Speaker 2: her several times and she's one of my favorite. Now
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  Speaker 2: you might know from my post shows that I do
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  Speaker 2: love strong female vocalists, and I don't think you get
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  Speaker 2: any much stronger with the powerful, lovely, silky voice of
• 34:17
  Speaker 2: Elkie brooks.
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  Speaker 1: Ah, the singer she saunds up when she plays Love Dan.
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  Speaker 3: Like Love.
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  Speaker 2: There we go a little change of pace there from
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  Speaker 2: Elkie Brooks and I saw her. We saw her several
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  Speaker 2: times down the Leasecliffe Hall and the place was packed
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  Speaker 2: and such a lovely voice. It really was a lovely evening. Okay,
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  Speaker 2: so the clock is nearly beating us. And first of all,
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  Speaker 2: I want to apologize to Barry and lyn Out and
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  Speaker 2: Spain there and if you are listening in, I've got
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  Speaker 2: one more song for you to play, but I'm going
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  Speaker 2: to have to play it on Thursday, and one of
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  Speaker 2: your favorite songs. Every couple has a favorite song, doesn't they.
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  Speaker 2: So I've dug it out and but I'll play it
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  Speaker 2: for you on Thursday and send you a copy. Right, So, Shiv,
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  Speaker 2: we haven't got much time lift, so it's now time
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  Speaker 2: for you to and what I'd like you to do
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  Speaker 2: is promote the club and just tell me anything that
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  Speaker 2: you think as we've forgotten and so awere you go.
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  Speaker 3: So obviously the season is now starting. We've got our
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  Speaker 3: t twenties coming up. It would be great to see
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  Speaker 3: loads of you there and if you see me, come
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  Speaker 3: and give me a wave and say hi. I love
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  Speaker 3: chatting to people. And also our KRDP, which is our
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  Speaker 3: Kent Regional Development Program. Nominations process opens in early May,
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  Speaker 3: so make sure you keep an eye on the website.
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  Speaker 3: If you've got a keen cricketer that you think has
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  Speaker 3: the goal to go all the way, give us a nudge,
• 35:56
  Speaker 3: give us a nudge, let us know about them, tell
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  Speaker 3: us all about them, and we want to see them.
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  Speaker 3: We want to see these kids doing well and we
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  Speaker 3: don't want to miss anybody. So just nominate and get
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  Speaker 3: them involved.
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  Speaker 2: Right and I mean the actual website it's very easy
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  Speaker 2: to find, but just tell people how they can get
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  Speaker 2: in touch and have a look to see what's going on.
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  Speaker 3: So we've also got social media as well, so we're
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  Speaker 3: on Facebook, we're on Instagram, we're on x we are
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  Speaker 3: on our own website which is Kent Cricket dot co
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  Speaker 3: dot uk and just have a look on there. All
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  Speaker 3: of our notifications and announcements are usually on the homepage,
• 36:29
  Speaker 3: but if not, drop down onto the Talent Pathway section
• 36:31
  Speaker 3: of the website and have a look at what we've
• 36:33
  Speaker 3: got a little picture of you. It's a few years old.
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  Speaker 3: I won't let them update it.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, so there you go, check out the Kent website.
• 36:43
  Speaker 2: You're in for a pleasant surprise. Really is they do
• 36:46
  Speaker 2: so much in the community. Well shift, thanks for coming
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  Speaker 2: on today. It's been a short notice. You've had a
• 36:52
  Speaker 2: few problems, you've just come out of hospital. But I'm
• 36:56
  Speaker 2: so pleased and thanks to your mum the Meatloaf fan
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  Speaker 2: for you up in you all and it's just been
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  Speaker 2: a brilliant morning. Something that's just came out of the blue.
• 37:05
  Speaker 2: Actually during the week when you posted something, I've got
• 37:08
  Speaker 2: in touch with you and you came in and it's
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  Speaker 2: been fantastic.
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  Speaker 3: So thank you so much, Thank you so much for
• 37:13
  Speaker 3: having me right.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, we're going to fish this morning with just going
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  Speaker 2: to play a little bit of a great track. It
• 37:19
  Speaker 2: was the sort of MTV This was the song that
• 37:21
  Speaker 2: really started it all. This is dire Straits money for Nothing.
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  Speaker 1: There you go.
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  Speaker 2: Thanks for tuning in today. This is Kevin Day and
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  Speaker 2: that's it from me. I'll be back on Thursday when
• 38:04
  Speaker 2: I have two special guests.
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  Speaker 1: Let me explain.
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  Speaker 2: On Sunday, the twenty sixth of April, South Kentmind organizing
• 38:10
  Speaker 2: the community's seedip to support mental health and I'll be
• 38:14
  Speaker 2: joined by organizer Joe to Host from South Kentmind and
• 38:17
  Speaker 2: Kirsty Hopbin, who is the c Swim Confidence coach and
• 38:21
  Speaker 2: she's been helping Joe with his project. And tune in
• 38:23
  Speaker 2: on Thursday between one and two and.
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  Speaker 1: I have a great weekend. I'll see you later.
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