Dave Podmore

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Dave Podmore is a fictional English cricketer.

Co-written by the English actor and writer Christopher Douglas, Andrew Nickolds and Nick Newman, his column appears in The Guardian.

Podmore began his career with Leicestershire, and he is married to Jackie Podmore.

Before the 2006/7 Ashes series he was appointed sledging coach to the Australian Cricket team.

His Test batting average is 4.

"An edge through the slips against Sri Lanka, they can't take that away from me ...except in Wisden which says it was leg byes".

Dave Podmore also become a comic radio series broadcast on BBC Radio 4, and often repeated on BBC Radio 7. Between 2001 and 2007 there were three series of Dave Podmore's Cricket Night and an Ashes special.

Dave Podmore's Ashes Quest was broadcast at the end of 2006 and the beginning of 2007.

Two books have also been produced, called Pod Almighty and Word of Pod.