Episode 66 - Associates Are Not the Problem with Nick Skinner (Part 1)

Co-founder of the Emerging Cricket network Nick Skinner joins the show for the first of two parts of our interview, where he details how Steve Waugh's tour diaries helped him expand his worldview, how the Emerging Cricket project came to be,and testing whether Associates really make World Cups less competitive. Follow Nick on Twitter @HeliocentCric Nick on Emerging Cricket: https://emergingcricket.com/author/nickskinner/ Nick's pieces on the competitiveness of matches:  https://emergingcricket.com/opinion/the-world-cup-competitive-games-fallacy/https://emergingcricket.com/opinion/of-upsets-and-unpredictability-an-in-depth-analysis-of-odi-competitiveness/The Cricket Sickos Podcast on Spotify: https://tinyurl.com/2kkhzf25 On Youtube: https://youtube.com/@aditrs7870?feature=sharedRSS link: https://anchor.fm/s/fa16cb28/podcast/rssFollow Adit on Bluesky @aditrs.bsky.socialMusic from Sicko Mode by Travis Scott Original Sickos cartoon by Stan Kelly Graphics by my incredibly excellent, cool and wildly handsome friend Harry Player