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...Nimbus' record-breaking offer is indicative of unimaginable sums of money that Indian cricket, with its vast and ever more affluent fan base, is able to attract. "The passion that India has for the game is greater than any other country has for any sport," says International Cricket Council (ICC) chief executive Malcolm Speed. "Factor in the billion-plus population and an economy growing by 7 to 8%?and what that means for the value of TV rights, advertising and sponsorship?and you understand the commercial power of India...
...1990s, however, its potential was untapped. A state-owned broadcaster, Doordashan, held a monopoly on TV rights, and "they used to give them away," groans Thawani. Today, interest in the sport is blossoming worldwide, making televised matches?along with advertising slots and sponsorship deals?more valuable. Membership of the ICC, the sport's international governing body, has expanded from 47 countries in 1997 to 96 last year. The ICC also moved its headquarters from London to Dubai and aims to grow top-level Test cricket from 10 sides today to a 20-strong second tier of cricket-playing countries that...
...like Gulu—to spend the night and avoid the LRA. At the peak of the exodus, some 40,000 children walked into Gulu every night, according to Human Rights Watch, a non-governmental organization. Five of the LRA commanders were indicted by the International Criminal Court (ICC) on charges of war crimes and crimes against humanity on July 8—the first-ever arrest warrants that the ICC has issued. Despite several reports by Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch, and even a U.S. congressional bill condemning this situation, news coverage of the two-decades-long conflict...
...Richard Morris, 51 and 55, a teacher's aide and a civil servant in Chesapeake, Va., told the couple earlier this year they were nuts to take in a teenager at their stage of life. But they arranged for one anyway from the Center for Cultural Interchange (ICC). "Four bedrooms is too many for us," Ann says. "We need to fill them...
...Happily for Murali, in a judgment in Dubai last week, the International Cricket Council (ICC) declared that analysis of video footage showed that "99%" of all bowlers, including many cricket greats, bent their arms excessively. The investigating committee proposed that the ICC loosen the rules and allow arms to be bent up to 15 degrees. A relieved Murali told TIME: "Cricket should be a gentleman's game. Now I hope it can be again...