Taha Hashim
@tahahashim.bsky.social
Sports writer at the Guardian https://www.instagram.com/tahahashim01/?hl=en
Never liked watching Stokes tee off immediately. The beauty was in the grind before the burst www.theguardian.com/sport/2026/j...
Ben Stokes in numbers: from specialist superhero to single-minded Test conductor
Figures spell out the highs and lows of a force of personality who could swing games in his team’s favour
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The good bit: more than 18,000 in at Edgbaston today, Smriti Mandhana slapping it over the off-side The bad: a complete structural mismatch, no handshakes between the two teams, how predictable it all is www.theguardian.com/sport/2026/j...
India start Women’s T20 World Cup in style as Sharma makes short work of Pakistan
India started the Women’s T20 World Cup campaign with a convincing 64-run win over Pakistan at Edgbaston.
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“I remember coming back from Australia where we’d just won the World Cup, and the first thing I did was get a cleaning job at my local sports club.” Put this together a few years ago on the last time England hosted the T20WC: www.wisden.com/cricket-feat...
The inside story of England’s 2009 World T20 win
“We talked a lot about this mantra we had for 2009, which was world domination”
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Fifa has recognised the Afghanistan women's football team. The cricketers are still waiting for the ICC to do the same www.theguardian.com/sport/2026/m...
‘We want to play like other teams’: Afghan women’s cricket dreams remain undimmed
Benafsha Hashimi fled the Taliban to Australia in 2021 and is determined to fight for the ICC to follow Fifa’s lead and recognise Afghanistan’s exiled players as the national side
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Fifa has recognised the Afghanistan women's football team. The cricketers are still waiting for the ICC to do the same www.theguardian.com/sport/2026/m...
‘We want to play like other teams’: Afghan women’s cricket dreams remain undimmed
Benafsha Hashimi fled the Taliban to Australia in 2021 and is determined to fight for the ICC to follow Fifa’s lead and recognise Afghanistan’s exiled players as the national side
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We see a lot of Jay Shah. Would be handy to hear from him too www.theguardian.com/sport/2026/a...
The Spin | Glitzy socials are one thing but it is more valuable to hear cricket’s most important voice
The ICC chair Jay Shah has dominated social media posts from global tournaments but his views on the future direction of the game are harder to find
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Next month will mark the 30th anniversary of an India-Pakistan combined XI taking on Sri Lanka in Colombo, a historic act of South Asian solidarity. Truly depressing where we've landed today: www.theguardian.com/sport/2026/j...
Bangladesh boycott brings a sad reality to T20 World Cup countdown | Taha Hashim
Swirling force of subcontinental politics and a governing body lacking in credibility has led to a far from joyous situation
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Here's the piece summarised in seven seconds: www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kou3... www.theguardian.com/sport/2026/j...
From Ashes hangover to subcontinental scars as England bid to rewrite history
Harry Brook’s side begin Sri Lanka ODI series in poor form but confidence is needed ahead of crucial winter period
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The series has been a letdown for several reasons – a lack of spin is up there www.theguardian.com/sport/2025/d...
Spin bowling on the back foot with pace dominating quickfire Ashes
Nathan Lyon has been the only specialist spinner on show with touring tweaker Shoaib Bashir sidelined by England
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Some thoughts on Usman Khawaja www.theguardian.com/sport/2026/j...
Reluctant trailblazer Khawaja confronts racial stereotypes before Sydney farewell | Taha Hashim
The first Muslim to play for Australia has been an inspiration for many in the way he has broken down barriers during his career
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The series has been a letdown for several reasons – a lack of spin is up there www.theguardian.com/sport/2025/d...
Spin bowling on the back foot with pace dominating quickfire Ashes
Nathan Lyon has been the only specialist spinner on show with touring tweaker Shoaib Bashir sidelined by England
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Not going to get much attention ... but England Lions are heading to a big defeat against Australia A. Lost by an innings to them in Feb, too Lions have also played five FC games against India A in last two years and won none. Things not ideal below the top either
Let’s see this thing through www.theguardian.com/sport/2025/n...
England can’t change now: Bazball approach must be seen through to its conclusion | Taha Hashim
This four-year experiment has produced exhilarating cricket – it is worth seeing the whole thing through before casting judgment
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It's unlikely ... but here's my case for England www.theguardian.com/sport/blog/2...
Why Australia will win v why England can win: two Guardian cricket writers make their Ashes cases
No 1-ranked Australia are favourites on home soil but through a forest of caveats for England, there is still a path to the urn
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There's not a lot to shout about in Pakistani cricket at the moment. But there's also a practical route to the WTC final, a comp that feels increasingly vital in the Big Three era www.theguardian.com/sport/2025/n...
The Spin | Times are bleak for Pakistan cricket but Test game offers hope of salvation
Pakistan are suffering in short-form cricket but the World Test Championship and its two-year cycle could work in their favour
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Excellent from @jonathanliew.bsky.social on how the ship has long sailed on the idea of sport being an above-politics "tool of piece" www.theguardian.com/sport/2025/s...
Vuelta chaos shows selling sport as a tool for peace can create its own battlefield | Jonathan Liew
Once teams promote a country, are owned by states or have to reflect government policy, sport becomes a playground for power
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Lovely to be in Malahide for England’s three T20s against Ireland, who haven’t played since June. Here’s something on their lack of action, a new stadium and a T20 league backed by Bollywood star Abhishek Bachchan: www.theguardian.com/sport/2025/s...
Ireland’s near-empty cricket summer in stark contrast to England’s slate
New stadium is hopefully on the way but Irish cricket needs boost after postponed T20 league and run of cancelled series
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Sonny Baker will make his England debut tomorrow. Was good fun speaking to him before the season www.theguardian.com/sport/2025/m...
Sonny Baker: ‘I want to be the guy where people are coming out of the bar to watch you bowl’
Hampshire signing and England hopeful on the season ahead, getting to know Andrew Flintoff and learning from other quicks of the past
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Spoke to Jordan Cox about his bad luck with injuries, that 29-ball 86 in the Hundred and the usual England stuff. Here's his former Kent head coach, Matt Walker: “I think he believes he’s the best player whenever he takes the field." www.theguardian.com/sport/2025/a...
The Spin | ‘I’ll bat anywhere for England’: in-form Jordan Cox confident of making the step up
The Essex wicketkeeper-batter, currently dazzling in the Hundred, has the self-belief he can put past setbacks behind him
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The NUJ has deplored the deliberate killing of Al-Jazeera journalists. Laura Davison, NUJ general secretary, said: "This is a horrific attack. We extend our deepest sympathies to the families of the murdered journalists and their colleagues." [1/3] www.nuj.org.uk/resource/pal...
Palestine: NUJ deplores killing of Al-Jazeera journalists
The Israeli government has admitted to killing five Al-Jazeera journalists and media workers in an airstrike on a tent outside the al-Shifa hospital in Gaza last night.
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Twenty years ago today, I didn’t go to Edgbaston. www.theguardian.com/sport/the-ni...
When sport and real life collide: a story about getting divorced during the 2005 Ashes
The 2005 Ashes was special. The Queen said it was ‘cricket at its best’. The prime minister said it ‘lit up the summer’. For one writer and England fan it was more than that: it was the storied series...
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A total non sequitur of an argument. No-one has said that men's Test series played between members of the Big 3 are 'dying', or in any sort of danger. That doesn't change the state of the game for rest of the world/sport.
The Cricketer@thecricketer.com · last yr."This has certainly been one of those series that could hopefully keep off that narrative that Test cricket is dying." #ENGvIND
Watching Pant today felt thrilling/joyous/stressful/morally dubious www.theguardian.com/sport/2025/j...
Pant’s painful innings will stick in the mind but should he really have risked further injury? | Taha Hashim
Seeing more balls threaten his already broken foot raises question of whether Test cricket should have replacements
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“Lancashire Cricket is playing its role in supporting bilateral trade talks between the UK and Indian governments.” www.theguardian.com/sport/2025/j...
Old Trafford chaos as Lancashire try to woo India but forget local fans | Taha Hashim
County apologise to visitors who struggled to get into ground on first day of fourth Test because of problems at the gates
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A piece in which I get to mention the most iconic moment of Kevin Pietersen’s career: his 2014 appearance on the Graham Norton Show with Taylor Swift www.theguardian.com/sport/2025/m...
Twenty years later: how 2005 Ashes marked end of cricket as we knew it
England’s titanic tussle with Australia enthralled a nation but then the Test game vanished from UK free-to-air TV
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This week’s column is on people losing their minds, and insulting the public’s intelligence, over Mamdani. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Zohran Mamdani won by being himself – and his victory has revealed the Islamophobic ugliness of others | Nesrine Malik
The vicious reaction to his New York mayoral success tells us this: the establishment will not countenance mainstream voters making common cause with Muslims, says Guardian columnist Nesrine Malik
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Israel kills innocent Palestinians. Activists spray-paint a plane. Guess which the UK government calls terrorism | Sally Rooney
Israel kills innocent Palestinians. Activists spray-paint a plane. Guess which the UK government calls terrorism | Sally Rooney
If Palestine Action becomes a proscribed group, writing these words of support could become a serious offence. It’s vital we fight this alarming attack on free speech, says writer Sally Rooney
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Despotism v capitalism: PSG v Inter is clash of styles on and off pitch | Jonathan Liew
Despotism v capitalism: PSG v Inter is clash of styles on and off pitch | Jonathan Liew
Champions League final features opposing tactical approaches and two radically different ownership models
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