# **Cricket Fever: Why the World is Finally Bowled Over** If you’ve been on the internet lately, you might have noticed something peculiar happening. Suddenly, everyone’s talking about cricket—not the insect, but the sport. From memes to mainstream media, cricket is having a moment, and it’s not just because of the recent ICC Men’s T20…
When the Lions Meet the Leopards: A Dispatch from the Tropic of Irony By Dave’s Locker International Desk Harare to Windhoek is only a two-hour hop on Air Zimbabwe—assuming the airline has remembered to fuel the plane that morning—yet the distance between the two countries keeps widening like a bad marriage. Zimbabwe, once the breadbasket…
New Delhi—It says something about the twenty-first century that a cricket ground in the Aravalli hills can feel like a planetary control room. On 23 February, when Harmanpreet Kaur’s India and Alyssa Healy’s Australia walk out for the T20 World Cup final, the scoreboard will be the least interesting ledger on display. The real balance…
The Last Super Over Before the Apocalypse: India vs UAE and the Global Theatre of Micro-Battles By Our Man at the End of the World (Bar, Dubai Duty-Free) Dubai, 5:47 p.m. local time. The sun is a cheap gold coin glinting off the Burj Khalifa’s windows, and 1.3 billion Indians plus everyone else with Wi-Fi…
