Stories by Junaid Aziz

The author teaches at Stanford, where he co-founded Designing Your Spiritual Life, a course that explores life’s deepest questions through design’s sharpest tools. He is also the CEO of Oxford Cricket Odyssey, a venture at the intersection of sport, education, and leadership. His work is anchored in a singular, luminous inquiry: What might the future look like if it were designed with grace.

From end of the Earth to World Cup final: The audacity of the Kiwi

New Zealand in the T20 World Cup final against the most expensively assembled cricket nation on the planet is not a sporting achievement. It is a personality type. Updated 07 Mar, 2026 01:35pm

Hara-kiri in Perth: Can Stokes reincarnate Test cricket from the ashes

There is a reason it's called Test cricket. It does not reward brilliance in flashes. It demands the slow burn of genius. It asks for stamina of mind, appetite for suffering, and a near-spiritual commitment to craft. Updated 26 Nov, 2025 07:11pm

Perth: A hara-kiri in two acts

Five shades of flat: How the England-India Test series failed cricket fans

In the end, what remained was not memory but metrics. Gill’s average. Duckett’s strike rate. Siraj’s stubborn resolve. No rivalries. No bruises. No poetry. Just a scoreboard with a smile. Updated 18 Aug, 2025 12:59pm

When the why walks away: Virat Kohli’s retirement and the summer that lost its song

Kohli didn’t leave because he stopped loving the game. He left because the game stopped understanding the kind of love he gave it. Updated 03 Jun, 2025 03:04pm