Reading that list reminded me of how Rizwan batted last series, yaar — solid, earnest, full of craft. My flatmate from Chennai and I used to trade playlists and he’d explain the stories behind those films over our evening chai. I miss that terrace talk. Makes you realise how much a good partnership, on or off the pitch, quietly enriches everything.

Arre yaar, I was reading about the new digital queue system for questura appointments in Milan. My colleague said it’s a game-changer, but then her renewal still took nine months. I’m sitting here thinking, for every person who got a smooth click, there’s someone like my neighbour bhaiyya who doesn't even have a smartphone—where does he log in from? All this efficiency talk sounds nice on a chart, but what matters is if the uncle at the counter actually stamps it before winter.