One summer night in Centerville, Ohio, in 2010, a scattered band of club cricketers gathered for their regular Wednesday practice session in Stubbs Park. One had brought a new recruit, his 19-year-old nephew Ali Khan, who had just come over from his village in Attock, Pakistan.
Khan had only played with a tape ball, but after his first over with a real one all the other players stopped to watch his second. “Everyone,” he says, “was like: ‘Wait, who’s this kid? Where’s he from again?’” They put him in the first team that very same weekend.
