A couple of years old, but this can still make me cry like a baby. This makes me miss Bangladesh.

I relate to it in so many levels… I can be the girl who is crossing the street while the boys stop their game to make way for me, I can be the little girl wearing our flag on my face sitting in front of the TV watching my country play, I can be the woman in the rickshaw who suddenly finds a cricket ball on her lap and throws it back to the players… THAT’s the extent of roadside cricket in my beautiful homeland.

And this video has another beautiful aspect of my country- the secularism. You’ll see people praying in mosques, mandirs, churchers, pagodas- all for the Bangladesh team to win, united by one simple fact: we are all Bangladeshis. Irrespective of anything else- regardless of if we win a game of cricket or not- I hope this never changes. That, no matter what happens, we are ALWAYS Bangladeshis, first and foremost.

Yes… it is sad that we HARDLY ever win, but this has never stopped us though. We keep on cheering for the ‘Red and Green’ and always will. Always.

And I’m happy it brings us together.

Go RED AND GREEN!

[Now I'll need some tissues, I'm so sappy ]