Dhaka, Friday, 3:12 a.m.—the sort of hour when sane people are asleep and only journalists, insomniacs, and arms dealers are still conscious. I’m watching a grainy feed of the T20 match between India and Bangladesh, but the cricket is merely the polite veneer over what is, in truth, a geopolitical cage fight wearing pajamas. While…
Cricbuzz: The Digital Colosseum Where Eleven Nations Pretend Cricket Still Matters to the Rest of Us by Our Man in the Pavilion Bar, Nursing a Warm G&T and Existential Dread Somewhere between the fall of the British Empire and the rise of TikTok attention spans, cricket convinced itself it was still a global sport. Enter…
Cricinfo: The Empire That Rebranded Colonial Nostalgia as a 24-Hour Global Soap Opera There are only two kinds of nations left in the world: those that play cricket and those that pretend it doesn’t matter. Cricinfo, now cosmetically renamed ESPNcricinfo after a corporate shotgun wedding, is the digital DMZ where the two tribes meet, argue,…
