Hussain Talat: The Unlikely Diplomat Carrying Pakistan’s Cricket Bat onto the World Stage By the time most of us have had our second espresso, Hussain Talat has already been praised, vilified, forgotten, and resurrected on three different continents. Such is the modern fate of a Pakistani all-rounder whose career arc resembles less a tidy sine…
KARACHI, PAKISTAN – Somewhere between a sandstorm and a smartphone screen, Fakhar Zaman is busy proving that national heroes are just like the rest of us, only with better highlight reels and worse visa queues. The 33-year-old left-handed opener has become a walking metaphor for a country that insists on swinging for the boundary even…
Karachi, Wednesday, 3:47 a.m.—While half the planet doom-scrolls through another night of inflation alerts and celebrity divorces, a 22-year-old left-handed opener named Saim Ayub is quietly threatening to rewrite one of the few remaining instruction manuals that still brings the human race together: how to play Twenty20 cricket. From the floodlit graveyard shift of the…
