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...Cricket is many things to South Asia. For India and Pakistan it is continuation of war by other means. Whenever England tours, it is a chance to right colonial-era wrongs. Like Bollywood, cricket is a glue that binds, acting as a shared cultural code that overrides differences of language, nationality and culture...
...India, cricket is also big business. The Indian Premier League (IPL), which features a fast and furious short version of the game, began in 2008 and is already worth approximately $2 billion. But last year's terror attack on Mumbai, and the assault on the Sri Lankan cricket team in Pakistan on March 3 in which eight people died (six policeman and two civilians) and several Sri Lankan players were injured have raised fears about the future of the game in the region. Will the threat of further attacks spell the end of international cricket in South Asia? (See pictures...
...place not so very different from his home village of Faridkot. The jetty at Budhwar Park, where the dinghy pulled in, is the domain of fishermen who struggle to make a living. A few challenged Qasab and his partners when they landed, but the rest were busy watching a cricket match. The strangers strode past them to the main road, and Qasab and Khan hailed a taxi, reaching VT, Mumbai's main railway station, at about 9:20 p.m. (See more about terrorism...
This week, Antigua officials confirmed Stanford owns a nearby island, Guiana, as well as hundreds of acres on Antigua. Stanford is one of the largest private employers in Antigua, where his businesses include a real estate company, a cricket stadium, a newspaper and two restaurants...
...well-known womanizer, Stanford has been caught on giant video screens at cricket matches flirting indiscreetly with players' wives and girlfriends. In an interview with London's The Mail, Stanford's father, James, 81, detailed his son's many "outside wives," of which he said there are three, with four outside children. But he told Reuters that his son has six children "from several women." It's hard keeping it all straight...