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Jarrod Kimber

I started with a lifetime of failure in my first 28 years. Failing at normal school, then a horticulture course, and finally film school. I flunked out everywhere. Eventually I started a film production company after years of working in factories and call centres. In my spare time started a blog called Cricket With Balls. The company started slowly, the blog exploded. Soon I was being offered work around the world, so I moved to London to see how that would go. Over the next five years, I freelanced in many random places in cricket as a writer, edited Spin Cricket magazine, was involved near the beginning of Test Match Sofa, and wrote several cricket books. Eventually I was hired for ESPNcricinfo to continue my video series 'The Two Chucks' and within a year or two I graduated to their Global Writer. In that time I also hosted a podcast with Andy Zaltzman called 'The cricket sadist hour'. It was around this period I also started radio commentary with BBC, ABC, talkSPORT and SEN. In 2018 cricket teams started asking me to work with them as an analyst. Since then, I have worked for St Lucia Stars, Scotland and Melbourne Stars while consulting with a host of other teams, players, and coaches worldwide. Now I freelance as a writer, commentary, analyst while not working on my Youtube Channel and podcasts