An Evening of Cricketing insights and Q&A with Wisden’s The Nightwatchman & Cricket Ireland. (1 Viewer)

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An Evening of Cricketing insights and Q&A with Wisden’s The Nightwatchman & Cricket Ireland.

John Kenny [RTE Sport]

Tim Wigmore [Daily Telegraph]

Alan Lewis [Cricket Ireland]

Tim Brooks [Wisden]

Ger Siggins [Sunday Independent[

The Sugar Club

September 11 @ 18.30

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Con Artist returns following the summer break with our first event focusing on the stories, legends and insights in the world of cricket. This evening of chat and Q&A is brought to you in partnership with Wisden’s The Nightwatchman & Cricket Ireland during the week of Ireland’s three one-day internationals against Scotland. Following the Q&A, we will be screening ‘Batmen - The Story of Irish Cricket’ which tells the story of cricket in Ireland from the earliest origins of the game in this country to the recent halcyon days when the national team has forged a reputation for swashbuckling cricket and the giant killing of cricketing superpowers. In addition , all attendees receive a free copy of The Nightwatchman Vol. 1 !


Cricket’s past is steeped in a tradition of great writing and Wisden is making sure its future will be too. The Nightwatchman is a quarterly collection of essays and long-form articles which debuted in March 2013 and is available in book and e-book formats. The Nightwatchman features an array of authors from around the world, writing beautifully and at length about the game and its myriad offshoots. Contributors are given free rein over subject matter and length, escaping the pressures of next day deadlines and the despair of cramming heart and soul into a few paragraphs.


Our host for the evening is broadcaster & life-long cricket fan John Kenny (@johnkennyrte) of RTE Sport Ireland & 2XFM. John is also the documentary maker behind the award-winning film, Heroes of the Caribbean - the story of the Irish team’s progress at the 2007 ICC Cricket World Cup.


Our panel is composed of:


Tim Brooks (@CricketAtlas), Tim is a freelance cricket writer specialising in global development, ICC development strategy, tournament structures (World Cricket League and World Cup qualification) and membership criteria. He was international correspondent for Cover Point magazine and has written articles for The Cricketer, Wisden Cricketer, All Out Cricket, Middle East Cricket, The National (UAE) and Cricket Europe. He is also lead commentator for Quipu TV, who cover matches featuring Associate and Affiliate nations as part of the ICC's development programme. His last hurrah with the bat ended with being carried off the field, well an ice rink in a former Soviet missile factory, when his knee buckled when facing the Estonian opening bowler.


Ger Siggins (@Siggo) is a journalist and author who has been writing about Irish cricket for more than 30 years and has travelled to the West Indies, India, Sri Lanka and the UAE to report on the team's surge into the world's top ten. He has written four books on cricket including the only history published in the last sixty years, as well as co-authoring biographies with Trent Johnston and Kevin O'Brien. He writes for The Star, Sunday Independent, CricInfo and CricketEurope and is a regular contributor to The Slog Sweep podcast.


Tim Wigmore (@timwig_cricket) Tim Wigmore blames Ireland’s win over Pakistan in 2007 for his fascination with associate cricket. He is currently writing a book on the subject, to be published before the World Cup. He writes regularly on cricket for the Daily Telegraph and Cricinfo and was highly commended for the Ian Wooldridge Young Sports Writer of the Year award this year. He’is contributing writer for the New Statesman, mainly on politics, works on the Morning Briefing email and was called a "little slave" by the Daily Politics Show.


Alan - or Lewy - Lewis, was one of the outstanding Irish batsmen of his generation. In recent years, he has become, perhaps, the most instantly known of all Irish cricketers through his rugby refereeing which has made him a familiar figure to millions of television viewers the world over including at the 2003 & 2007 World Cups. He captained Ireland on 35 occasions & is one of only six players to have played more than 100 times for Ireland, behind only Peter Gillespie and Kyle McCallan.


Batmen - The Story of Irish Cricket


In this one-off documentary motive.ie tells the story of cricket in Ireland from the earliest origins of the game in this country to the recent halcyon days when the national team has forged a reputation for swashbuckling cricket and the giant killing of cricketing superpowers. ‘Batmen: The Story of Irish Cricket’ traces the sport’s growth from its early days to the historic giantkillings of recent years, not least the stunning upset of England at the 2011 World Cup. Including interviews with current international stars John Mooney and Ed Joyce, and narrated by former Irish cricketer Alan Lewis, it tells the tale of “the sport most impacted by the enormous political changes of the last 200 years.”