Carlos Brathwaite

All good, all good, reeling from the licks that I get from Man United so far already, so I know how this interview will go.

But no, it's been good to watch the podcast grow.

We've met off-air and in real life, IRL as the young people say.

So yeah, it's been good to watch the growth of the podcast and keep doing what you're doing.

I hope it don't cost me too much money.

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But no, I think just like what you said, regularly you have conversations.

Obviously, you know, being a commentator, you have to keep your ear to the ground, follow the game and be able to call it and, you know, spot trends and that type of thing.

And I've loved wrestling cricket as a player, but I think stepping into the commentary box, it actually...

I wouldn't say rekindle because the love and the passion was never lost, but I think because they have no control over what's happening on the field now, they feel as though the passion is there as much as it was playing.

And in some instances, it even feels like it's burning brighter.

So just having conversations, and funny enough, it's been four years now I've been doing commentary, and it feels like a long time.

And you get into certain conversations with people about what can be done differently.

And then someone made the statement to me that you have the plot, but you're not close enough to influence change.

We want you to be an admin type of thing.

I mean, everybody see the helmet lash, everybody know the passion that I have for cricket.

And I'm one of those persons that if it not working, I happy to walk.

So my hesitation in the past has always been so many times you have conversations with people that are actually in power and you make certain suggestions and it feels as though it falls on deaf ears.

And over the last few months or so,

i think i started to be a little bit more open-minded around maybe it isn't that they don't want to influence change maybe they can't for whatever reason there may be a limitation um so then my thing was can i get in then and see what the limitations are what's holding wrestling cricket back obviously only from a local standpoint in Barbados at the moment but with a view of