Loxton and Keith Miller, members of the 1948 Invincibles. O'Donnell played 24 games and kicked 18 goals between 1982 and 1983 in what was then the VFL. However, he had continued to play cricket and retired from football to focus on his cricket career. Media career O'Donnell hosted Melbourne radio station Sport 927's morning program with Kevin Bartlett until 2004. With the Nine Network, O'Donnell has been a commentator of cricket and now presents The Cricket Show. Having owned and managed race horses through his company, O'Donnell Thoroughbreds International, he is also used as an expert on horseracing on Nine's racing coverage. During the mid-1990s as part of his work with Channel 9, O'Donnell was a regular on the daytime program The Midday Show, teaming up with former rugby league footballer Paul "Fatty" Vautin on Fridays to give an overview of the weekends sporting events, usually the AFL and NSWRL competitions, and to give their racing tips. The pair would generally get into silly situations (e.g. coming out onto the set dressed in blowup Sumo suits), or would be on location such as in early 1994 when O'Donnell was taken on some hot laps of the high speed Calder Park Thunderdome oval racetrack in Melbourne with multiple AUSCAR champion Brad Jones. In November 2011, it was announced that O'Donnell would replace James Brayshaw as host of The Sunday Footy Show. However, In November 2012, Nine announced that O'Donnell had left the network. Cricket career 1983–84 Season O'Donnell made his first class debut for Victoria against South Australia at the MCG in February 1984. 1984–85 The following summer his bowling gathered attention when he took the wickets of Kepler Wessels and Alan Border in Victoria vs Qld Shield game, as well as making 54. An innings of 45 not out helped steer Victoria to victory in a McDonald's Cup game. He made 78 in a run-heavy game against the touring West Indies and hit 42 off 43 balls and 129 against Western Australia. He was selected in the Prime Ministers XI to play the West Indies. According to a contemporary report, "O'Donnell's selection is a timely one as his name has been cropping up regularly in discussions on Australian teams and it will be no surprise if he is selected to play in the one-day series in the New Year. As well as being a more than useful medium-pace bowler O'Donnell