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...watched the English cricket team arrive in India last week for a two-month tour, Harish Thawani reflected on how the gentleman's game of clipped lawns and breaks for tea and cucumber sandwiches was changing. A few days before, Thawani stunned the sports world by paying $612 million?11 times the previous price and the biggest deal in cricket history?for the TV rights to Indian cricket for four years. "India is the new cricket superpower," says Thawani in the Bombay office of Nimbus Communications, a Singapore-based sports-production firm of which he is chairman. "India now provides...
...Millions of fans in Australia and England would presumably beg to differ. Last summer those two traditional rivals played each other in a terrific series that captured the attention of cricket lovers around the world. But off the field, there is little doubt that the two cradles of the game are increasingly overshadowed by India. In comparison with the Nimbus deal, TV rights to three years of English cricket went for $384 million last summer, to Rupert Murdoch's British Sky Broadcasting. Nimbus' record-breaking offer is indicative of unimaginable sums of money that Indian cricket, with its vast...
...Traditionalists may still moan that cricket and cash mix about as well as crumpets and curry. But the game began its commercial revolution three decades ago when Australian media magnate Kerry Packer, who died last December, broke away from the sports establishment and signed 50 top players to his World Series Cricket. Packer's venture was short-lived, but his innovations?white balls, colored team strips, floodlights and high player salaries?stuck. Today, a second commercial upheaval is evident in the number of companies vying for a slice of cricket's growth on the subcontinent. Nimbus...
...Bush is slated to take in a "cricket event" in Pakistan on Saturday, and the country's most celebrated former cricket captain, Imran Khan, is also planning to rendezvous with the visiting U.S. President. But rather than guiding Bush through the nuances of the game, the cricketer-turned-opposition leader will be leading a protest march against the U.S. and its support for Pakistan's military regime. The urbane Imran's promise to rally middle-class liberals against Bush and Musharraf may be a sign of just how poorly the U.S. has fared in the battle of ideas in Pakistan...
...same spirit, he could oppose a plan to scrap the tradition of players walking between the Sydney Cricket Ground's members as they enter and depart the arena. And he could step in and declare "Enough!" when his speedster Brett Lee bowls unsporting bumper after bumper at tail enders. Competitive and artless, Ponting is doing his best to ensure Australia keeps winning. That's the job as he sees it, and he's doing it well. Reflecting on his early days, however, might remind him that there's more to sport than that. If he then began to grasp...