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A morning read.

A handful of stories worth your coffee — and nothing more. Read in the time it takes the kettle to boil, then back to your day.

First Move publishes a couple of short editions every morning. Each one is its own world — a different country, a different game, a different conversation — but they all share the same shape: what happened, what mattered about it, and a few threads that ran through the day.

The point isn’t coverage. The point is finding the moments that stayed with us — the human ones, the funny ones, the ones that quietly explain why a number on a screen moved the way it did — and putting them somewhere you can find them again tomorrow.

In a sentence

Stories told the way you’d want to hear them.

No alerts, no signups, no analyst tone. Just a quiet read, in plain language, every morning of the week.

What’s here today

IPL Daily

The night before, told in the order it actually happened. The shot that turned it, the catch nobody saw, where every team sits when the lights go out.

Every morning · 08:00 Dubai

USII Daily

The world before your morning meetings — the day’s confirmed moves, the numbers worth glancing at, and a few quiet threads that tie them together.

Every morning · 09:00 Dubai

More topics will join as they earn their place — a topic only belongs here when there’s something to say. Until then, the two above are what we’re looking after.

If you spot something we got wrong, or you’ve got a story we should be reading, write to hello@firstmovedaily.com. We answer.

See you tomorrow.

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