Batta Fast
"What do they know of cricket, who only cricket know?"
Ahmer Naqvi and Osman Samiuddin look at cricket from beyond the runs and wickets to the larger sociocultural context of the sport.
Podcasting since 2023 • 81 episodes
Batta Fast
Latest Episodes
The Boy Who Never Got Out - Episode 88
Aik bacha tha jo out nahi hota tha.Link to Haroon Khalid's works: https://www.goodreads.com/author/list/7247507.Haroon_Khalid
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Season 16
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Episode 6
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27:46
How Much Winning Is Too Much? Episode 87
An extremely #RichPeopleProblems issue leads to a deeper understanding of why we watch our favourite teams.My essay on fandom and forgetting: https://karachikhatmal.com/the-i-who-becomes-a-we-the-importance-of-forgetting-to-fandom...
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Season 16
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Episode 5
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37:04
Why Tapeball is Decolonized Cricket - Episode 86
An invention from Karachi in the 80s, Tapeball cricket took the colonial history of the sport and ripped it apart.Biryani article featuring Malang: https://fiftytwo.in/story/rice-fat-meat-streets/Abid Hussain's Tapeball Longf...
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Season 16
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Episode 4
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47:11
When Does A Rivalry End? Episode 85
"I don't know what the stats are. But this is not a rivalry anymore" - Suryakumar Yadav's claim that India-Pakistan is not a rivalry anymore made me want to explore what rivalries are, and when - if at all - do they end?
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Season 16
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Episode 3
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30:24
Noman Ali and the Aesthetics of Pakistan Cricket - Episode 84
"Pakistan is a country of SLAs pretending to be pacers" - this throwaway text from Osman on PiPY led to this podcast: a discussion on the aesthetics of Pakistani bowling, how they changed irrevocably with Imran Khan, and how the continued prese...
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Season 16
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Episode 2
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37:45