The Friday Game

The Documentary Podcast

BBC

Society & Culture, Documentary, Personal Journals

4.3 • 2.6K Ratings

🗓️ 24 January 2017

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Summary

For just a few hours on Friday mornings, Majeed and his friends feel completely at home. Despite the often sweltering conditions in Dubai, the rough, uneven pitch and the stark surroundings, the moment the players walk up to the wicket, they are taken back to their home in Kerala, India - to their childhood, community and families. This is their story - a story of migration and opportunity, loneliness and brotherhood.

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0:00.0	He is one of the main bowler from our
0:05.0	a baller from our side, okay?
0:07.0	And he is an aggressive player, you know?
0:11.0	He liked to win the match and you agree what I say right?
0:15.0	Yeah I agree agree.
0:17.0	So we have a great chemistry. He's the best buddy. See, we're more than friends like a family, you know.
0:29.0	We are there for everything, you know, for up, for dawn, for good for bad for happy for sad we're always
0:35.4	together actually.
0:38.4	Millions of people around the world leave apart from their families mostly
0:42.0	for work to make money.
0:43.6	Here in Dubai, migrants make up majority of the population.
0:47.0	My name is Mejeed, and I run a small business here.
0:49.6	Like me, many live without their loved ones.
0:52.1	But in this BBC documentary, I'm going to show you
0:54.9	how over the years together with my friends my brothers we have created a different kind of
0:59.6	family and we did it playing cricket. Short man.
1:05.0	How's that?
1:07.0	How's that?
1:09.0	Finally?
1:10.0	Before the sun comes up every Friday morning,
1:12.0	we meet on rough sandy lot near the airport to play
1:15.6	gully or street cricket.
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