The Emerging Cricket Podcast

We close out EC Pod 7 with a review of the Uganda-Kenya-Zimbabwe women's "Victoria Tri-series", we talk about the first ODI between UAE & Zimbabwe and answer your questions from the EC Mailbag for the first time!

Bes, Nick & Cuts take a deep dive into the final World Cricket League event: WCL2 gets underway in a week's time from Namibia's capital Windhoek. Canada, Hong Kong, Oman, PNG, USA and the hosts will fight out for the final four places in the ICC's new all-ODI "Cricket World Cup League 2". The bottom two will slot into the new CWCQ Challenge League. Hear the team's take on each of the teams and the players to look out for as well as everyone's final placings predictions.

We digest the shock sacking of Afghanistan's longstanding skipper Asghar Afghan (form. Stanikzai). We try to solve the case of the disappearing Kenya T20 tournament. There's a lot of women's cricket happening in Africa as Namibia hosts Botswana - and Kenya & Zimbabwe play the Lady Cricket Cranes in Uganda. La Manga hosts the Scottish men and women for a joint training tour as well as an Estonia, Malta, Spain T20 series. We also touch on the NZ-Asia indoor champs in Singapore.

Bes gets his chance to have his rant about Delhi not picking Sandeep - and was vindicated when he was finally selected after the podcast was recorded. We also dissect the EAP T20 World Cup qualifier, Nigeria's U19s make the country's first global cricket event and the USA close out their UAE tour with more impressive performances across the squad. Nick speaks to Dhugal from Japan Cricket Association about the expansion of the game in Kaizuma in partnership with the government to develop a ground in the city, with the chance to play international cricket there.

The EC team give their thoughts on Afghanistan’s maiden Test victory in their just concluded series with Ireland; Team USA continues to impress in the UAE; and rain threatens the EAP T20 World Cup Qualifer. They also review Sandeep’s PSL; and look forward to WCL2 next month in Namibia.

And kids, don’t oil your bat before you sand it!

All you need to know in under two minutes!

- Afghan Test win
- USA first win on UAE tour
- PNG rain
- Erasmus appointment

Get your update on the emerging cricket world in less time than an ad break. We spoke with Ireland men's captain William Porterfield leading into today's Test and Bes also gives you an update on the East Asia Pacific Region T20 World Cup Qualifiers next week and USA T20I debut later today against UAE.

On our third EC Pod: a wrap of the Thailand hosted ICC Asia Women’s Qualifier and with the news of the Ireland/Netherlands/Scotland joint venture “Euro Thrash” T20 we talk about its potential, alongside the club-based European Cricket League which also kicks off this northern summer. 

Recorded on Tuesday 26/2, Cutler, Skinner & Beswick review Afghanistan's dominant performance in their three-match T20I series against the Irish in Dehradun, we check in on the 50-over series results from Oman where Scotland prevailed, talk about the Netherlands' training tour in India and then celebrate the continued emergence of women's cricket in Thailand and beyond leading up to the global T20 World Cup qualifier and (hopefully) the Asian Games in 2022.

Here's your regular bulletin of the scores from cricket's new world. Thailand continues their unbeaten run at the ICC Asia Qualifier & Afghanistan breaks records in their T20I clean sweep against Ireland. The Dutch continue their winning way in their training tour in India and Scotland closed out their 50-over series of Oman.