Master of spin
by Shamya Dasgupta
Jun 08, 2018
3 minutes
Perhaps the most memorable images from Rio de Janeiro 2016 are of the Refugee Olympic Team. They won no medals, but surely adulation from the crowds and the forcing of a conversation on refugee rights was victory enough.
The Afghanistan cricket team, of course, is not a team of refugees. But most of the men who were part of that country's first steps in world cricket learnt the game when living in Pakistani refugee colonies through the many years of war. It was
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