On the back of West Indies failure to make it out of the World Cup qualifiers group we wanted to talk to an aficionado of the associate cricket scene.

Shounak Sarkar of Emerging Cricket popped into the Caribbean Cricket Podcast Studio to explain why associate teams are catching up and surpassing the West Indies.

You can find Shounak at https://emergingcricket.com/ or on Twitter at https://twitter.com/Shounak_WA

As always with the Caribbean Cricket Podcast we go into a level of depth and analysis on West Indies cricket that you wont hear anywhere else.

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