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Andrew Nixon, writer from Cricket Europe, joins the podcast to talk about discovering cricket beyond the Full Members before the internet, advocating militantly for the Associate game through his writing, and the many ways that cricket could be doing better to grow itself around the world.
Andrew's writing on Cricket Europe: https://www.cricketeurope.com/index.shtml
Andrew and Russ Degnan's Associates and Affiliates Podcast: https://cricketeuropearchive.com/AUDIOVIDEO/IDLESUMMERS/index.shtml
Follow Andrew on Bluesky: @andrewnixon.bsky.social
The Cricket Sickos Podcast on Spotify: https://tinyurl.com/2kkhzf25
On Youtube: https://youtube.com/@aditrs7870?feature=shared
RSS link: https://anchor.fm/s/fa16cb28/podcast/rss
Follow Adit on Bluesky @aditrs.bsky.social
Chapters:
00:21 Cricket origin story
02:47 Discovery of Associate cricket
07:20 Writing about Associate cricket
18:45 ICC membership tiers compared to other sports
32:21 How well the ICC is growing the game
46:28 Stories from Associate cricket that Andrew identifies with
Music from Sicko Mode by Travis Scott
Original Sickos cartoon by Stan Kelly
Graphics by my incredibly excellent, cool and wildly handsome friend Harry Player
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