Osman Samiuddin

Commentary: The Hidden Imran The cricketing legend is Pakistan’s most famous man. Can the state make him vanish? 1. Just so we’re clear, the following is a fact. Not opinion, not a point of view, not a hot take. Fact. There is no...

"There is no Pakistani — male, female, dead, alive, real, imagined — as famous as Imran Khan."

@osmansamiuddin.bsky.social traces, for @equatormag.bsky.social, Khan's story from national cricket hero to prime minister and his current status as a forcefully vanished figure. bit.ly/4q5bbXg

Imran Khan has gone from batting and bowling to serving as Prime Minister and being imprisoned. No Pakistani can match his fame. Yet for two years, as @osmansamiuddin.bsky.social reports, he has been erased from public life.
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Nobody is better placed than @osmansamiuddin.bsky.social to write about Imran Khan: the cricket legend, polarizing politician, and now, Pakistan’s most famous prisoner .
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The Hidden Imran • EQUATOR The cricketing legend is Pakistan’s most famous man. Can the state make him vanish?

After jailing Imran Khan two years ago, Pakistan’s military establishment has tried to erase him from public life. @osmansamiuddin.bsky.social travelled to Islamabad, Karachi and Lahore to report on this bizarre effort to disappear the country’s most famous man.
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Oman Cricket agrees to clear players' dues from 2024 T20 World Cup Oman Cricket says the delay "was procedural, dependent on formal post-event clarifications from the ICC"

Happy to see a story we did might have made some impact. Reported earlier this month that Oman’s players had not been paid money they were owed. They’ve been sacked but might get paid.

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Mathews defies drama, one last time Angelo Mathews has never been the kind who seeks out drama, but it seemed to follow him around at many points in his career

AFF has been saying bye to Angie all Test long and here is the final one. Going to miss this guy.

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How much of a loss are Pooran's and Klaasen's retirements to international cricket? Not as much as many might think: only a fraction of their white-ball internationals were games of real consequence

Pooran, Klaasen and quiet-quitting cricket

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They're a loss, yes, except we're not really losing them. Nicholas Pooran said goodbye on Monday night and on Thursday he'll be saying hello again, as captain of MI New York in Major League Cricket's third season. Heinrich Klaasen will also be there, captaining Seattle Orcas. Ferris Bueller thought life moved pretty fast nearly 40 years ago. He had no idea. Also, if international cricket is your thing, then they're even less a loss, because international cricket was not - is not - really their thing. International cricket didn't really see the best of them. How much of a loss are Pooran's and Klaasen's retirements to international cricket? By Osman Samiuddin

'These days cricket retirements are not goodbyes so much as quiet-quitting; that is, finding ways to do less for more’

How much will international cricket miss Klaasen and Pooran? @osmansamiuddin.bsky.social writes: bit.ly/3ZVt2FO

Baffles me that people still question the value of the PSL. On it turning 10.

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The Pakistan Super League has survived exile, spot-fixing, Covid, bad anthems, different board heads, four different prime ministers and two caretakers. Yet here it is in all its glory in its tenth season.

✍️ @osmansamiuddin.bsky.social on the PSL's first decade: bit.ly/4j6r9gX

The ICC is getting into the (explosive-growth) mobile gaming market

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The real Scandi noir: how a filmmaker and a crooked lawyer shattered Denmark’s self-image The Black Swan follows a repentant master criminal as she sets up corrupt clients in front of hidden cameras. But is she really reformed – and is the director up to his own tricks?

A bonkers story of a Danish documentary about cons and scams, and cons-within-cons and scams-within-scams. Superb from @samanthsubramanian.bsky.social
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WCA recommendations to fix cricket:

- Protected international windows
- More equitable revenue distibution
- The ICC as a global governing body (vs member's club)
- Greater share of revenue for players

WCA’s solutions to fix the game. Worth reading the report.

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George Foreman showed every gesture is political – especially for Black athletes | Bryan Armen Graham At the 1968 Olympics, Foreman’s flag-waving was seen as deference. But the reaction to it reveals the limited ways we allow Black athletes to express themselves

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Is cricket ready for a Saudi-backed Grand Slam circuit? For all the flutter the revelation of the plan has created, it remains to be seen how far it will go if the BCCI isn't on board

On the Saudi-backed plans for (more) T20 cricket

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'I think 70% of international bowlers don't know what they're doing' Dale Steyn and Shane Bond decode their collective three decades of experience as the world's best fast bowlers and coaching tomorrow's pace stars

This is such a great and insightful conversation on modern fast bowling with Shane Bond and Dale Steyn.

Watch: youtu.be/q4GQ6zQSPuM

Read: www.thecricketmonthly.com/story/147596...

PCB, Journalism and Babar Azam - What is wrong with Pakistan Cricket? - Osman Samiuddin - #TPE 424 YouTube video by The Pakistan Experience

Enjoyed talking Pak cricket on The Pakistan Experience (that’s what AI me looks like btw)

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Pakistani paranoia fuelled by Hundred snub, but reasons may be closer to home No picks in Hundred draft continue global trend. But poor results and board intransigence are also to blame

On 0 Pakistan players in the Hundred

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Iggy I was looking for a trace, a whiff, a rumor—anything that would bring alive the greatest guitarist you’d never heard about.

‘I was looking for a trace, a whiff, a rumor—anything that would bring alive the greatest guitarist you’d never heard about.’ @osmansamiuddin.bsky.social writes, brilliantly, in Guernica about chasing a forgotten musical legend from Karachi. I’m proud to have edited it.

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Hopefully this leads to a cameo on Stranger Things.

Hail Steve Smith, the last of the 10k giants He is the 15th to get to the mark, and no one else looks likely to get there anytime soon - or ever

Steve Smith has made it to 10k runs. How many more will get there?

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Hail Steve Smith, the last of the 10k giants He is the 15th to get to the mark, and no one else looks likely to get there anytime soon - or ever

Steve Smith has made it to 10k runs. How many more will get there?

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The Last Days of Mankind | Pankaj Mishra Today, the war on terror is widely accepted as a military and geopolitical failure. But it is still not fully understood as a massive intellectual and moral fiasco: an attempt by the Western media as ...

Listen to RATM first album while reading this

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Pat Cummins has made Australia great again, unobtrusively His captaincy is not as celebrated as those of some of his contemporaries, but he has the results, and has made telling contributions towards achieving them

Have we ever considered the possibility that Jasprit Bumrah was put on this planet to make Pat Cummins look human? I think we should

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Pat Cummins has made Australia great again, unobtrusively His captaincy is not as celebrated as those of some of his contemporaries, but he has the results, and has made telling contributions towards achieving them

Have we ever considered the possibility that Jasprit Bumrah was put on this planet to make Pat Cummins look human? I think we should

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PSL 2025 - Kane Williamson among 44 overseas platinum players in draft Get all the latest news and live updates on the PSL 2025 draft

PSL 2025 draft live, the right link this time!
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PSL 2025 - live coverage of the draft right here
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Whitewashed Again - The Pakistan Injury Curse - Two Tier WTC - Afghanistan Boycott - Episode 75 YouTube video by Batta Fast

New BF, wrapping up SA whitewash, blaming ourselves for Saim and adulting on two-tier Tests and Afghanistan

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New Year, same ol’ heartbreak. Latest Batta Fast episode on Centurion and Mo Abbas

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The resolution of the India-Pakistan Champions Trophy standoff was a win? Not by a long shot We've heard it said that the ICC has been reduced to an event management firm, but is it even that now?

The Champions Trophy saga is finally over. I scathed a little.

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