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Incredible growth numbers across 32 Associate members in Europe 💥

@danielbeswick.bsky.social with more 👇

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Glowing European cricket numbers after latest census shows participation surge - Emerging Cricket
Junior, women’s, and hardball participation all grow in data collected across 32 Associate members in Europe.
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December 2, 2025 at 1:33 AM
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While Nepal stay put in one city for their #T20WorldCup tilt, Group A’s Associates go on a journey across both India and Sri Lanka 🗺️

More from @tomgrunshaw.bsky.social 👇

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Associates learn T20 World Cup schedule - Emerging Cricket
The ICC has released the fixtures for the 2026 Men's T20 World Cup, revealing the schedule for the eight associate sides
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November 27, 2025 at 10:56 PM
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A class player if we do say so ourselves, and upskilled on the attacking side.

And per ICC eligibility, England fans will enjoy that he can go from an Associate Member to a Full Member straight away, providing he qualifies as an England player.

(We don’t want to see him go though!)
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What do @emergingcricket.bsky.social watchers think of Asa Tribe? Talks of England future starts his ODI, List A and First Class stats are really impressive more than many other ahead of him. Not seen any of him to know his game. I assume he couldn’t play anyway as he played for Jersey this year?
November 27, 2025 at 9:46 PM
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Is there more to the Italy news that meets the eye?

More from a whistle-blower 👀

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Whispers from Europe hint big European absence at T20 World Cup - Emerging Cricket
The whistle has been blown, and there may be more to this Italy captaincy shuffle.
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November 27, 2025 at 11:29 AM
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"The ICC has warned its members to expect a 30% revenue decrease when the new contract cycle starts in 2028."

@rodlyall.bsky.social on the changes the Dutch must make (and others should take note of) 👀

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At last the 2028 show - Emerging Cricket
A dozen or so years ago, I had an argument with Richard Cox, then CEO of the KNCB (Dutch cricket’s governing body), about the role of the clubs in the KNCB’s policy-making. Under the KNCB constitution...
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November 24, 2025 at 5:54 AM
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🚨 New #ECPod 🚨

🇳🇵 🇴🇲 🇦🇪 qualify for #T20WorldCup 2026!
🌍 ICC meeting leaks and how the game’s future looks
🏏 #CWCL2 wrap
🇹🇭 Emerging Women’s Trophy and more!

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November 17, 2025 at 6:51 AM
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A defining period coming up for Ireland 👊

Dave Sihra with more 👇

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Ireland look to end winter well - Emerging Cricket
Did we miss anything? Well there’s a Women’s tour to South Africa before Christmas, an Under-19 World Cup in Zimbabwe and Namibia in January, plus whichever additional T20Is can be arranged before the...
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November 11, 2025 at 2:14 AM
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A tough task, but quiet optimism around the Dutch camp as they recruit their next CEO 🙌

Rod Lyall with more 👇

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Dutch cricket goes in search of a new leader - Emerging Cricket
A visionary leader with experience in change management, someone with strong financial acumen and strong interpersonal and communication skills, experience in managing complex stakeholder environments...
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October 20, 2025 at 11:53 AM
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The U19 ICC Cricket World Cup picture looks clearer after Scotland's qualification and Americas action underway.

Tom Grunshaw's weekly round-up 📝

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EC Roundup - 10 August 2025 - Scotland qualify for U19 World Cup - Emerging Cricket
Welcome to this week’s Emerging Cricket Roundup, condensing all the major news into one easy-to-digest place. In this week’s wrap: Headlines U19 Qualifiers in Europe and Americas European Summer conti...
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August 11, 2025 at 9:07 AM
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🚨 New #ECPod 🚨

🇮🇹 Italy's T20 World Cup moment
🌏 ICC Conference fallout
🏏 Asia-Pacific Champions Trophy, Pearl of Africa and more!

EC Pod #250 🎉

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August 6, 2025 at 12:46 PM
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🏆 Scotland or Netherlands? The race for European qualification to the U19 World Cup is down to two!

👇 That and more in this week's Roundup!

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EC Roundup - 03 August 2025 - European U19 Qualifiers Underway - Emerging Cricket
Action continues in Europe with the Men's U19 World Cup Qualifiers in Scotland, and bilateral series in Estonia
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August 3, 2025 at 8:14 PM
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They’ve become the talk of the cricket world, and president of Italy's cricket governing body wants to leverage #T20WorldCup success for future generations 👀

More with @shounakwa.bsky.social 👇

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Forza Azzurri: Simone Gambino talks Italian Cricket, T20 World Cup and Espatriati
Emerging Cricket sit down with Simone Gambino to discuss all things Italian cricket, ICC membership, T20 World Cup and "expat" players.
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July 29, 2025 at 2:17 PM
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🚨 Latest #BigInnings 🚨

A brains trust of American cricket make their USA squad predictions ahead of the #T20WorldCup in India and Sri Lanka 🔮

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July 29, 2025 at 5:29 AM
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Cricket in the emerging game coming up to our EARS 🏏

@tomgrunshaw.bsky.social wraps the week's action 👇

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EC Roundup - 27 July 2025 - More cricket than you can shake a stick at! - Emerging Cricket
A busy week in the emerging game with associate and non-member action across Europe, Africa and Asia
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July 29, 2025 at 4:44 AM
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Regional winners and global nominees of the 2024 ICC Development Awards have been announced!

Full list 👇
ICC Development Awards 2024 Global Nominees announced - Emerging Cricket
The ICC has announced the programmes and performances that have won regional honours in the 2024 ICC Development Awards.
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June 4, 2025 at 12:11 PM
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ICYMI a big day circled in Namibia's calendar, set to host South Africa at their new ground later in the year 🗓️

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Namibia to host South Africa in landmark T20I - Emerging Cricket
Namibia's men's national team will host neighbours South Africa for the first time in a match with senior international status on October 11.
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May 29, 2025 at 4:20 AM
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Self-proclaimed as a cricket city, Schiedam boasts one of Associate cricket's greatest domestic rivalries, Hermes-DVS and Excelsior ’20.

@rodlyall.bsky.social paints a picture as the teams go head-to-head again 👇

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Nelson on the Board for the Schiedam Derby - Emerging Cricket
Another chapter in a fierce derby held in the self-proclaimed cricket city of Schiedam draws near.
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May 20, 2025 at 12:21 PM
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"We are truly at a crossroads: either we find ways of generating more income or we will have to cut back on our ambitions."

Four months in as Interim CEO of KNCB, Lucas Hendrikse on how he wants to move forward 🗣️

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Dutch CEO Hendrikse: ‘Above all, the KNCB needs peace – and more sponsorship!’ - Emerging Cricket
Now four months into his job as Interim CEO of the Dutch governing body, the KNCB, Lucas Hendrikse has clear ideas about where he wants to take an organisation which is slowly recovering from a tempes...
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May 15, 2025 at 10:30 AM
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🚨 New #ECPod 🚨

Nick is joined by @shounakwa.bsky.social to discuss Women’s WCQ, while @danielbeswick.bsky.social gives his quick assessment from Japan as the hosts take U19 CWC qualification honours 🗣️

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May 12, 2025 at 2:44 PM
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Concerning comments from Australia's CEO on the future of the game 👀

@rodlyall.bsky.social off the long run responding to Todd Greenburg's chat with Dan Brettig for The Age 👇
Same Leopard, Same Spots - Emerging Cricket
Not content with the idea of two divisions of Test cricket, Cricket Australia’s new CEO, Todd Greenberg, has suggested that perhaps Test status could be removed completely from several ICC Full member...
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May 2, 2025 at 2:30 AM
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Representatives of the Japan Cricket Association are en route to Nagoya as the sport keeps its place for the Asian Games 🏏

@danielbeswick.bsky.social from Sano 🇯🇵

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Cricket races back into 2026 Asian Games program - Emerging Cricket
Cricket will feature at the 2026 edition of the Asian Games in Japan, quashing months of speculation surrounding the sport’s potential omission. A decision on the sport’s fate was decided at an Olympi...
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April 30, 2025 at 5:15 AM
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Who will evoke the change cricket so desperately needs? And how much power is in the players’ hands?

Part three of @rodlyall.bsky.social’S assessment of the WCA Report 👇

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The WCA report, Part Three: Leadership - Emerging Cricket
The WCA working party which has recommended a root-and-branch reform of international cricket has trodden carefully across the minefield which passes for governance at the ICC. They were, indeed, init...
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April 21, 2025 at 11:56 AM
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"This is a deadlock that the WCA’s funding ideas, like those of Lord Woolf more than a decade ago, could break, if only cricket’s leaders can find the courage to do it." 👀

Part two of Rod Lyall's dissection of the World Cricketers' Association report 👇

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The WCA report, Part Two: Finance - Emerging Cricket
‘Money is the root of all evil,’ as St Paul is (wrongly) supposed to have said, but there is no doubt that money, wisely used, can be a force for good. It was the love of money that St Paul was on abo...
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April 16, 2025 at 1:05 PM
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How can cricket's schedule shift to be a more equitable game?

The first of a three-part series from Rod Lyall looking at WCA's proposal to even things up 🏏

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World Cricketers’ Association takes on a global challenge: Part One - Emerging Cricket
Let’s start by saying that the report released by the World Cricketers’ Association on 26 March, entitled Protecting History, Embracing Change: A Unified, Coherent Global Future, is the first real sig...
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April 13, 2025 at 11:34 AM
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New pod!

Nick and Aaman wrap up women's T20WC Americas qualifier. Shounak talks Canada and Netherlands in Namibia in League 2. And Vanuatu coach Chris Laffan chats about the women's trip to New Caledonia.

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March 28, 2025 at 2:03 PM