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. 

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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/

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