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Born into a family of cricket tragics in Canada and Tri-lingual across English, French and Spanish, Nick has broad experience providing descriptive and entertaining match coverage for multiple events across three continents involving emerging cricket teams. Nick’s personal blog is helicentcric.blogspot.com and tweets as @HeliocentCric, where he tirelessly proselytises the emerging game.
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OPINION: Zimbabwe suspension highlights double standards and warped priorities of ICC board

As the dust settles on the ICC’s decision to suspend Zimbabwe, the situation remains far from certain. Players’ careers have been thrown into limbo, while...

Of Upsets and Unpredictability: an in-depth analysis of ODI competitiveness

This is the comprehensive analysis of competitiveness in men's ODIs. A condensed version is available here. The Cricket World Cup’s league phase is finally entering the...

The World Cup “competitive games” fallacy

This article serves as a rebuttal of the argument justifying the ICC’s decision to reduce the CWC to 10 teams on the basis that including...

Japan qualify for first world cup, PNG forfeit after 10 players questioned for shoplifting

(UPDATED 0130, 0930 AEST) There was drama aplenty, a shroud of mystery and a touch of the ridiculous at Sano today, as Japan awoke to the...

USA brush aside Canada to progress through ICC Americas Women’s Qualifier

Less than a month after the USA men’s team claimed ODI status at WCL2 in Namibia, the women provided more good news for cricket in...

Captain Kaia takes PNG past Samoa to qualify; Vanuatu and Indonesia sign off with victories.

Papua New Guinea today booked their place in both the 2019 Women’s World T20 Qualifier, and the 2020 Women’s Cricket World Cup Qualifier. Winning through...

PNG and Samoa victories set up defacto final; Vanuatu delights home crowd in thriller.

Frontrunners Papua New Guinea and closest rivals Samoa both continued their impressive unbeaten runs at the EAP Women’s Qualifier yesterday, with the results meaning that...

Final: Oman vs. Namibia WCL2 live blog

Toss: Cricinfo live scores | ICC live scores TO WATCH THE STREAM:ON PC/LAPTOP: Go to this link and open an account (register via email or social)ON...

Game 13: Canada vs. USA WCL2 live blog

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dwms8N41AwE Toss: USA, elected to bowlCricinfo live scores | ICC live scores Over 50.0 - Canada win by 40 runs, but they are leapfrogged by PNG on...

Game 10: Canada vs. PNG match report

PNG 154 off 44.2 overs (Vala 82, Heyliger 4/41) lost to Canada 155/7 off 34.2 overs (Jacobs 52*, Pokana 2/20, Vala 2/24) by 3 wickets...

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