About Us

Andy Skovborg-Hansen: Co-Founder & Managing Director

Andy Skovborg-Hansen has been playing cricket since his earliest days at school, working his way through every team going and representing Hertfordshire at schoolboy level up to U18.

An all-round sportsman, Andy has since developed into a genuine power player, more than capable of clearing the rope when the situation demands it. The “risk/reward” shot is where it sometimes goes wrong, and teammates will tell you he’s been known to take the “risk” a touch too literally!

Time spent around subcontinent cricket through previous work gave him a close-up look at the game’s biggest names, and what began as casual friendships with some of the world’s best-known brands has since grown into world-leading professional relationships. Somehow, he has managed to keep the fun and excitement of it all, which is no mean feat when you run a sports company you spend all day thinking about cricket and all weekend playing.

Andy is thrilled to have turned those relationships into a fully established company, and he is never far from the phone, badgering the brands for the inside scoop on the next innovation, player endorsement or latest product.

That drive is why BB were the first in the UK to know about and stock the ABD360 range from EM, and it’s exactly why he is determined to make BB International Cricket the go-to place for all your cricket needs.

Paul Fowling: Co-Founder & Director of Cricket

Paul has been loving cricket since before he could walk, clutching a Lenor bottle to cries of ”Gocket!”, before moving on to develop an obsessive interest in cricket kit, poring over the numerous catalogues and adverts in the monthly cricket magazines of the day.

He has since matured into a stalwart of the Kent/East Sussex village cricket scene with over 20 years as fixture secretary for his club and just shy of 350 wickets to his name, with his very slow left arm deliveries – the man the term ‘flight and guile’ could have been invented for – wreaking havoc across the south east since the mid-90s.

Away from his own involvement in the game, his cricketing heart lies with Hampshire, where a life membership and summers glued to YouTube ensures he misses very little of the Hawks’ men and women in action.

Paul is delighted his lifelong passion is now finally of use and takes great pride in overseeing every aspect of BB’s product range to ensure it meets his exacting standards.

 This is particularly true of the BB-branded softs and bags, while his commitment – trusty mallet in hand – to finding the best bats across all price points is second to none.