Episode 17 - Punching Above its Weight with Nate Hays

Nate Hays of the MLC network joins the podcast to talk about realising cricket's simplicity, the community feel of cricket in the USA, and goes through his journey as a journalist in parallel to cricket's recent growth in the country. Plus some more talk about Jomboy's Ball In Play league. Nate on Emerging Cricket: https://emergingcricket.com/author/natehays/ Nate on the MLC network: https://www.youtube.com/@MLC_Network/streams Follow Nate on Bluesky @cricfanusa.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: 00:43 Origin story 12:10 Playing cricket 21:26 Church Street Park in Morrisville, NC 29:59 Cricket 19 simulations 33:59 Joining Emerging Cricket 43:14 Grand Prairie and its value for Associate cricket 49:22 Ball In Play league 57:23 Final questions 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