George Dobell


George Dobell is an English cricket journalist.
He is currently the senior cricket correspondent at ESPNcricinfo. He has written for SPIN Magazine, and The Cricketer magazine as well as The Guardian, The Times and the Birmingham Post. He has contributed to the cricket almanac Wisden.
Dobell was the ghost writer for the autobiography of former England and Warwickshire cricketer Jonathan Trott entitled ’Unguarded’.
On 10 October 2018 Dobell was included in the list of the most respected journalists working in Britain as published by the National Council for the Training of Journalists.

Work

Dobell regularly appears on the Switch Hit cricket podcast as well as guesting on the Lord's podcast, and the One Stump Short podcast.
ESPNcricinfo have a regular video feature at the end of a Test match day's play entitled ‘Polite Enquiries’ in which Dobell and his colleagues answer viewer's questions. Dobell regularly appears on the Test Match Special ‘journalist panel’ at lunch on the final day of a Test match. Dobell has regularly made appearances on Sky Sports programme ‘Cricket Writers on TV, TalkSport, and on BBC Radio 5 Live

Personal life

Dobell possesses both British and New Zealand passports. As a child he watched a lot of Somerset County Cricket Club and his favourite player was Viv Richards.