[2] He has written for SPIN Magazine, and The Cricketer as well as The Guardian,[3] The Times[4][5] and the Birmingham Post.
[7] Dobell was the ghost writer for the autobiography of former England and Warwickshire cricketer Jonathan Trott entitled Unguarded.
[15] ESPNcricinfo have a regular video feature at the end of a Test match day's play entitled Polite Enquiries in which Dobell and his colleagues (such as Jarrod Kimber and Melinda Farrell) answer viewers' questions.
[18] He has appeared regularly on the Sky Sports programme Cricket Writers on TV,[19] TalkSport,[20][21] and on BBC Radio 5 Live.
As a child he watched a lot of Somerset County Cricket Club matches and his favourite players were Ian Botham and Viv Richards.