![]() He recalls how proud his father was when the narrator once blocked a cricket shot with his bare shine (which saved his team in the game) and, although the blow caused him immense physical pain, acted like it didn’t hurt. Cricket was the narrator’s primary opportunity to impress his Daddy by proving that he was tough. At that time, Daddy used his experience playing cricket in school and his enthusiasm for the game to galvanize all the boys in the Firozsha Baag apartment complex to join them and form teams that competed against one another. The narrator and his Daddy once bonded over playing cricket (a British bat-and-ball sport) together every Sunday morning. ![]() Cricket represents the social pressure that the story’s male characters feel to appear tough and masculine, as well as Britain’s colonial influence on Indian culture. ![]()
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