No. 006
The First Time Is the Only Time
On being a Bangladesh cricket fan, and the one kind of joy you only get to feel once.
“You hope less because hope, historically, has been the thing right before the collapse.”
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Sport
Cricket and football, and the specific kind of hope that gets punished for it.
No. 004
The Joy and Sadness of Supporting Brazil
Thirty-six years, one country that was never mine, and a habit I can't seem to break.
“It's tribal identity borrowing a jersey it has no real claim to, and it's proof that the ugliest thing about fandom was never losing.”
No. 001
How Waqar Younis Defined My Childhood
For a South Asian kid in 90s England, one fast bowler turned a slow game into a religion.
“Rewind, play. Rewind, play. The fire was mine after that.”