Machel St. Patrick Hewitt, one half of the Caribbean Cricket Podcast, joins the show to talk in more detail about how he and his co-host Santokie Nagulendran started making their podcast, the role the podcast plays in covering West Indies cricket, and the reasons why they dedicate so much of their time and effort to the cause.
The Caribbean Cricket Podcast on Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@CaribbeanCricketPodcast
On Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/2vseYQXRRe614G84eNydM7
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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
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Chapters:
01:05 Cricket origin story
04:02 Meeting Santokie
06:56 Reasons why support for the West Indies among the diaspora has declined
11:04 How conversations with Santokie turned into the podcast
13:20 Influencing how West Indies fans talk about cricket
18:33 What success looks like for West Indies cricket
26:10 How Machel finds the drive to keep the podcast going
32:35 Why the podcast is important