Stars & Stripes Cricket Podcast Peter Della Penna

Emmy Award-winning sports TV director and producer Peter Steep continues his chat about life behind the camera in the world of cricket, including his time working on the Stanford 20/20 tournaments as well as other parts of his career around the world.

Emmy Award-winning sports television director Peter Steep comes on the podcast to talk about his life in cricket behind the camera in charge of various cricket broadcast productions in the USA including the 2015 Cricket All-Stars tour headlined by Shane Warne and Sachin Tendulkar, and more recently producing and directing the Willow TV premium broadcast of the day for Season Two of Minor League Cricket T20 Championship. Steep shares how he got started in the sports broadcasting industry after moving from Australia to New York in 1988, initially working in golf before moving on to tennis, Olympics and eventually cricket.

Crystal Zins, the 40-year-old Minnesota native who represented Southwest Region at the 2022 USA Cricket Women's Regional Championship in Pearland, Texas, comes on the show to talk about her experiences in cricket. Zins was the only one of the 56 players across four teams at the four-day event not to face a delivery or bowl a delivery in the tournament, after which a Facebook post chronicling that distinction wound up going viral. But Zins still had a glass half-full view of her time at the tournament, and about life and cricket in general which she describes in great depth during this interview that showcases her passion for cricket.

Cricket journalist Jake Perry, co-host of the Cricket Scotland Podcast and author of the books, "The Secret Game" and "Playing with Teeth" comes on the podcast to talk about cricket in Scotland in the context of his two books about the history of the game in the country, including USA's own rivalry with Scotland dating back to the Gentlemen of Philadelphia tours beginning in the 1880s.

USA Women's senior and U19 National team player Anika Kolan comes on the podcast to talk about her journey growing up in the San Francisco Bay Area getting into cricket at the age of nine before rapidly progressing to make her national team debut as a 15-year-old in Mexico at the 2021 ICC Americas Women's T20 World Cup Qualifier in Mexico. Most recently, Kolan served as vice-captain for the undefeated USA Women's U19 squad who stormed to the tournament title at the 2022 Cricket West Indies Rising Stars U19 Women's Championship in Trinidad where she sealed USA's title run with an unbeaten 48 off 44 balls in a seven-wicket victory over Trinidad & Tobago at Brian Lara Cricket Academy.

Former Canada men's and U19 International Shaheed Keshvani comes on the podcast to talk about life on the junior ice hockey circuit in Canada before he transitioned into cricket, his impressive run as Canada's leading wicket taker at the 2004 ICC U19 World Cup in Bangladesh, and his most recent work being appointed as the strength & conditioning coach for the Nepal men's national team for their tours of USA and Scotland. Keshvani is also the co-host of the Canadian cricket themed podcast, "Dropped Again".