Ronnie Irani: Lancashire, Essex and England all rounder. Played 3 test matches and 31 one-day internationals. In all professional cricket finished with better all round statistics that Andrew Flintoff, scoring over 20,000 runs and taking over 650 wickets at an average of 41 and 29 respectively.

He has now taken up a permanent position at TalkSPORT, where he co-hosts The Breakfast Show from 6-10am with former Scottish International, Alan Brazil. He has been a hit with TalkSPORT listeners and is now affectionately known as ‘Vernon’, after the TV personality Vernon Kaye, of whom Ronnie shares a similar Lancashire accent.

Ronnie has now become an extremely popular sporting speaker on the After Dinner circuit and is regularly fulfilling engagements across the length and breadth of the country, for all manor of sporting functions.