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...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 between 60% and 80% of world cricket revenues. The old powers like England or Australia don't like it, and maybe that's natural, but that doesn't change what's happening. This...
...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 and ever more affluent fan base, is able to attract. "The passion...
...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 was one of 15 rival bidders, according to Sharad Pawar, president of the Board of Control for Cricket in India (bcci). Having won the deal, Nimbus, which has no TV channel of its own, is now in talks to resell rights to broadcast India's matches in individual countries. Interested...
...century great Marcel Dupré are considered authoritative. He has recorded two albums for Decca, and his recording at the organ of Southwark Cathedral won the Gramophone magazine’s “Critic Choice Award” in 1983. Recent compact disc releases on the Hyperion, Guild, Nimbus and Priory labels have brought wide critical acclaim. Program highlights will include Bach’s Prelude and Fugue in A minor and Mozart’s Fantasia in F minor. Expect a scintillating and nuanced performance on a superb organ from Scott. —Alexander B. Fabry
Younger readers sense that she knows their world and their tastes. Kids care about brands: a Nimbus 2000 broom is the best on the market, at least until the Nimbus 2001 is released. They like to solve her puzzles: they are tickled to see that Diagon Alley, the wizard mall, is of course laid out diagonally. They like a character who moves from being powerless to being magical to having powers even over other adults. Harry's being an orphan makes him both more vulnerable and independent in ways most 13-year-olds are not; he had to invent himself...