It has plenty fresh to say about the aspirations of young Pakistani males ... Din is very good at charting the things that unite and divide his Pakistani quartet ... Din has taken a stock situation, a friends' annual reunion, and reinvigorated it through sport and social commentary.

Michael Billington, Guardian

[A] highly promising first full-length play ... Snookered memorably captures the confusion of young men who find themselves caught between two cultures ... this provocative piece is undoubtedly blessed with vigour and bite, and is especially strong at exposing the fault lines that can develop in even the closest friendships with the passage of time ... a genuinely eye-opening play.

Charles Spencer, Telegraph

Wow! This is the most accomplished and assured first play I have seen for years ... Din uses his command of the relentless demotic to lay bare an extraordinary range of emotion from the braggardly and blustering to the vulnerable and downright tender ... in this expertly-paced piece of writing ... Din's prose is as subtle as it sinuous. It works a lot through what it leaves unsaid

Paul Vallely, Independent

Din has a great ear for dialogue and a way with spiky comedy ... Din writes with zest, honesty and sympathy about the complexity of real lives in modern Britain.

Sarah Hemming, Financial Times

Din certainly succeeds in bringing a tongue-in-cheek voice to British theatre throughout the play. [He] is able to deal with very real social taboos in an unusually down-to-earth setting . . . Worth a read or a performance purely on the basis of Din's witty script.

Maddi Howell, Books Editor, York Vision