Gary AKA Carnival Sorts joins the podcast to talk about the progression of Irish cricket before and during his lifetime, including his journey that started as a kid in rural Ireland teaching the game to confused neighbouring kids.

Follow Gary's Substack at https://carnivalcricket.substack.com/

Gary's piece on Ireland reinforcing the Associate glass ceiling: https://carnivalcricket.substack.com/p/ireland-smashed-crickets-glass-ceiling

Follow Gary on Bluesky @carnivalsorts.bsky.social

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

Follow Adit on Bluesky @aditrs.bsky.social

Chapters

00:58 Cricket origin story

07:45 Teaching cricket to confused neighbouring kids

11:01 Starting cricket writing

12:55 Going to Ireland games

18:20 The progression of cricket in Ireland

32:29 Ireland's transition to Full Membership

44:01 Ireland reinforcing the Associate glass ceiling

47:52 Cricket Ireland's refusal to take risks to grow the game

52:17 Gary's outlook on Ireland's medium-term future

58:02 Final questions