News: Mike Watkinson to Team Up with JMW for Business of Sport Summit
28/07/2009
The sports law team at JMW Solicitors LLP have announced that Ex Lancashire and England cricketer Mike Watkinson will present with JMW's Senior Player Management Executive, Craig Sackfield, at Insider's Business of Sport Summit.
Lancashire's Director of Cricket, Mike Watkinson, will present with Craig Sackfield on the ‘Changing Face of Cricket'. Mike scored nearly 11,000 runs during his first class career and took nearly 750 first class wickets. He was instrumental in Lancashire's success in the 1990's and has since them moved into coaching where his credentials were boosted by Lancashire's production line of quick bowlers such as Andrew Flintoff, Jimmy Anderson and Sajid Mahmood.
JMW are one of the sponsors of Insider's Business of Sport Summit which takes place on Wednesday 9 September at The Bridgewater Hall in Manchester. The Summit brings together leading professionals from the North West sports community to discuss new opportunities for both sport, and sports business, in the region. For more information or to find out how to buy tickets for the event please click here.
Craig Sackfield, Senior Player Management Executive at JMW said:
"We are extremely pleased that Mike has agreed to team up with us to speak at the Business of Sport Summit. He has an amazing background in cricket, from being a successful player with Lancashire in the 1990's through to now where as Director of Cricket at Lancashire he can fully appreciated the changes that have taken place within cricket."
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For more information:
Samantha Meakin
0161 828 1981
samantha.meakin@jmw.co.uk
