Ian is a retired Retail Banker with experience in multiple banks in the UK and the Middle–East. His career covered a wide range of roles including branch management and senior lending and exec roles and has given Ian the experience and knowledge to work with many different types of stakeholders from customers to business contacts and internally up to board and CEO level and he will bring this expertise to the Foundation.
Job: Risk Management (retired)
What made you want to be involved with TCA Foundation? I’d seen the huge benefit my son got from working in the Asylum for his cricket skills but more especially and personal resilience and social skills so I was really pleased to be asked to help the foundation make those opportunities more widely available.
What is your earliest Cricket memory? Watching the Sydney Ashes test in Jan 1975 when I was 10; sitting on the famous “Hill” with an eski (cool box for those unfamiliar with 70’s Aussie linguistics) – full of food, pop and beer for dad.
Most memorable cricket moment, personal or watching? Two here out of many wonderful days playing or watching all round the world:
Playing – Taking 5/6 against a scratch Portsmouth Royal Navy side in the summer of 1982 while playing for the school first XI – to be fair an awful lot of the navy chaps who would normally play were still on their way back from the South Atlantic. Played at the United Services Ground which at the time was one of Hampshire’s out grounds, marvellous facilities for a bunch of schoolboys.
Watching – my16 yr. old son hitting a 33 ball hundred in the local U19 T20 competition, and then going on to take three wickets and two catches.
Cricketing Idols? Viv Richards and David Gower. Two batsmen who were great to watch for different reasons, and Nasser Hussein for being the exemplar and face of a changing ethos for English cricket to a much grittier more stubborn team. Vaughan benefitted enormously from this culture shift.
Favourite country visited? Oh my; that’s a challenge – probably Australia for a holiday but I met my wife in Saudi Arabia so that has my vote.
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