The Emerging Cricket Podcast

Patrons: You have an extended version of this week's pod! We take a look at the MLC Draft with Nate Hays, talk men's and women's PICCs (and Tim talks left-arm orthodox bowling) and we salute Kyle Coetzer on a fabulous career!

What a tournament we have on our hands in Namibia! Bes and Nick on who goes through, who takes a League 2 place for the next cycle, and who will be forced to go through the Challenge League.

Have you recovered? What a finish to League 2 as Nepal completes their 11/12 win comeback to claim the last auto Qualifier spot! Bes and Nick also wrap action in Hong Kong, Tim Cutler's cameos in the Pacific and news from Europe!

The end of the windy League 2 road! Can Nepal into the top three? Will UAE and PNG find form ahead of the playoff?

Meanwhile Ahmed Raza calls time as Anshy Rath returns to international play, Americas sub-regionals concludes and the Dutch travel to South Africa and Zimbabwe!

Nick Skinner is joined by US correspondent Nate Hays and the pair discuss the run home for League 2, with the race for crucial third spot heating up, as well as the ongoing Americas subregional qualifier - where Bermuda have sealed top spot with a match to spare. There's also a news update from the U19s CWC Asia qualifier and the ACC Challenger Cup. Then, we hear from Corey Rutgers, head coach of the Spanish men's team, about bowling out the Isle of Man for 10, and the exciting growth of cricket in Spain.

Emerging Cricket contributor Tom Grunshaw joins Nick to chat through the news of the week including Nepal's impressive home performance benefitting from the services of an out-on-bail Sandeep Lamichhane, and in other men's cricket, Afghanistan took on the UAE and the Asian U19s Qualifiers got underway.  

It's a big week back for the show, as we chat to Vanuatu women's skipper Selina Solman about her cricketing journey, as well as preview the upcoming League 2 Tri-Series hosted by Nepal.

We weren't short of important things to talk about this week! We revisit the issues surround Afghanistan and its Women's players after Tracy Holmes' report, look into the spot-fixing drama in Nepal that adds to a long list of problems, discuss the Olympic news around 2028 and highlight the unbelievable efforts of Associates at the U19 Women's T20 World Cup!

They've done it! Rwanda stun Zimbabwe to progress to the next phase of the Women's U19 T20 World Cup, beating Zimbabwe.

We look at their performance and Indonesia in depth (we'll cover the campaign for every Associate next week).

Nick also catches up with Nate Hays with another eventful week in American cricket.

Is there ever a dull week in Associate cricket? Not to be outdone by the seismic shifts in the USA, organisers of the Nepal T20 overshadow the competition by fleeing the country without the money! We then look at the early surprises in U19WC warm-ups, with the tournament proper here at last!