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...Despite India's stunning market potential, Stern knows that it is no layup and, as a sports market, may be among the least global. First, he is up against wicket competition, firmly planted in the country's psyche. "Cricket is our religion," says Harish Sharma, secretary-general of India's national basketball federation, of India's premier pastime. "Basketball is just another sport." In India, even soccer pales by comparison with cricket...
...homeless is now a minor government official, a librarian who works with the severely handicapped continues to stick to her idealistic guns, while a schoolteacher who worked extensively in the Third World is back at the traditional public school he once attended in England (and he's still playing cricket...
...UNDER INVESTIGATION. Mohammad Asif, 23, and Shoaib Akhtar, 31, star bowlers for Pakistan's scandal-plagued national cricket team; after testing positive for the banned anabolic steroid nandrolone during India's Champions Trophy tournament; in Lahore. Both players, who await results from a second test and are set to face a doping tribunal next week, have denied knowingly taking any illegal substance. If the results are confirmed, it will mark the first time that international cricket players have tested positive for performance-enhancing drugs...
...Most Sacred Game "It's Not Just Cricket" [Sept. 4] discussed the allegation that the Pakistani team had tampered with the ball during a Test match with England. Oh, Pakistanis, you can do anything-you can ridicule my government, you can scorn my religion, and you can even step on my blue suede shoes. But, please, do not force the holy gem of cricket into disrepute by ball tampering and match fixing. Pam Howe Idar-Oberstein, Germany...
...like foreigners." And so, in his opinion, did the central government. "None of the work on the port has gone to people from Gwadar," he added. "They are spending billions of rupees on it, but they have not even built us a proper hospital." Like the children playing cricket, he seemed to consider himself very much a Pakistani. But he resented Islamabad's heavy-handed approach and the troops it deployed to enforce its policies. I left Gwadar with new sympathy for the Baluch and their desire for more say in their affairs...