1 00:00:06,049 --> 00:00:08,342 [narrator] Cricket is an old British sport. 2 00:00:09,761 --> 00:00:11,304 Very well played, sir. 3 00:00:11,804 --> 00:00:14,682 Cricket... of course, doesn't even have rules. 4 00:00:15,266 --> 00:00:16,225 It has laws. 5 00:00:16,309 --> 00:00:19,437 And that immediately strikes some people as pompous and self-regarding. 6 00:00:19,520 --> 00:00:22,899 [narrator] Those laws were mostly written in 19th-century London 7 00:00:23,191 --> 00:00:25,985 at a pitch still considered the home of cricket 8 00:00:26,319 --> 00:00:27,445 called Lord's. 9 00:00:27,653 --> 00:00:28,863 [newsreel narrator] For this is Lord's: 10 00:00:28,946 --> 00:00:32,617 deeply rooted in tradition and in the ritual tradition brings. 11 00:00:32,700 --> 00:00:34,577 You know, God bless cricket. 12 00:00:34,660 --> 00:00:36,329 It has a tea break in the game. 13 00:00:36,746 --> 00:00:38,748 [Brian Lara] It's definitely a test of attrition. 14 00:00:38,831 --> 00:00:41,125 A lot of people can't get their mind around, 15 00:00:41,209 --> 00:00:42,585 "How do you stand out there for five days?" 16 00:00:43,169 --> 00:00:45,171 [narrator] But cricket has changed. 17 00:00:45,254 --> 00:00:46,923 There's a new form of the sport 18 00:00:47,006 --> 00:00:51,010 That's bringing in more money, fans, and a different style of play. 19 00:00:51,969 --> 00:00:53,513 But one thing hasn't changed. 20 00:00:54,013 --> 00:00:54,847 [Kimber] It's complicated. 21 00:00:54,931 --> 00:00:57,058 It is one of the most complicated sports on Earth. 22 00:00:57,141 --> 00:00:58,810 It's totally wiggly. 23 00:00:58,893 --> 00:01:01,938 It doesn't even follow any apparent obvious reason. 24 00:01:02,522 --> 00:01:04,690 [narrator] That didn't put off the one billion people 25 00:01:04,774 --> 00:01:09,028 that were estimated to have watched a single cricket match in 2015 26 00:01:09,112 --> 00:01:11,114 between India and Pakistan. 27 00:01:11,197 --> 00:01:13,533 That's one in seven humans. 28 00:01:14,534 --> 00:01:17,036 So how did this confusing British game 29 00:01:17,453 --> 00:01:19,956 become one of the most popular sports on Earth? 30 00:01:20,206 --> 00:01:22,792 [newsreel announcer] And here's the England side coming into the field. 31 00:01:22,959 --> 00:01:25,378 [crowd cheering] [newsreel narrator] A subtle battle between a slice of willow 32 00:01:29,674 --> 00:01:31,050 and a round of leather. 33 00:01:31,634 --> 00:01:32,468 [man shouts] Yeah! Got it. 34 00:01:32,552 --> 00:01:33,553 [crowd cheering] 35 00:01:33,636 --> 00:01:35,054 [announcer 1] West Indian skipper, Brian Lara. 36 00:01:35,138 --> 00:01:36,681 [announcer 2] What a great victory. 37 00:01:36,764 --> 00:01:38,933 [announcer 3] Unbelievable scenes here at the World Cup. 38 00:01:40,852 --> 00:01:44,480 [announcer 4] This is certainly not an Englishman's game anymore. 39 00:01:45,648 --> 00:01:47,650 [theme music playing] 40 00:01:54,490 --> 00:01:56,075 [Mandvi] Two teams of 11 play each other 41 00:01:56,159 --> 00:01:57,910 on a field shaped like an oval. 42 00:01:58,411 --> 00:02:01,289 The batting team has two players on the field at a time 43 00:02:01,372 --> 00:02:02,915 on either end of the pitch. 44 00:02:04,000 --> 00:02:05,459 They're trying to score runs, 45 00:02:05,543 --> 00:02:07,962 while the fielding team is trying to get them out. On each side of the pitch is a wicket. 46 00:02:11,924 --> 00:02:15,011 The wicket is three stumps topped by two bails. 47 00:02:15,678 --> 00:02:17,805 A batsman stands in front of a wicket 48 00:02:17,889 --> 00:02:20,141 trying to hit the ball delivered by a bowler 49 00:02:20,224 --> 00:02:21,601 from the other end of the pitch. 50 00:02:22,185 --> 00:02:24,896 If the batsman hits the ball, they score runs 51 00:02:24,979 --> 00:02:27,857 by exchanging positions with the other batsmen. 52 00:02:28,274 --> 00:02:30,818 Each exchange equals one run. 53 00:02:31,110 --> 00:02:33,696 While they're running, the fielders try to get the ball 54 00:02:33,779 --> 00:02:36,949 and hit one of the wickets before a batsman gets there. 55 00:02:37,700 --> 00:02:41,120 If they don't make it before the ball knocks the bails off the stumps, 56 00:02:41,412 --> 00:02:44,207 they're out and the new batsman comes in. 57 00:02:45,249 --> 00:02:48,628 If the batsman hits the ball hard enough, they won't have to run. 58 00:02:48,961 --> 00:02:51,923 If they hit it to the boundary, it's worth four runs. 59 00:02:52,548 --> 00:02:54,217 And all the way over the boundary... 60 00:02:54,550 --> 00:02:55,843 that's six. 61 00:02:55,927 --> 00:02:57,762 If a fielder catches the ball, 62 00:02:58,012 --> 00:02:59,764 the batsman is out. 63 00:03:00,514 --> 00:03:04,477 The bowler can also get a batsman out if their delivery hits the wicket, 64 00:03:04,727 --> 00:03:06,979 knocking the bails off the stumps. 65 00:03:07,980 --> 00:03:10,483 A batsman can choose not to swing 66 00:03:10,566 --> 00:03:12,235 or swing and miss the ball, 67 00:03:12,443 --> 00:03:15,780 and he won't get out as long as the wicket is safe. 68 00:03:16,822 --> 00:03:20,952 The bowler, however, can only bowl six deliveries at a time. 69 00:03:21,202 --> 00:03:24,372 That's called an "over," and it's really important. 70 00:03:25,373 --> 00:03:28,501 After each over, a teammate takes their place. 71 00:03:29,460 --> 00:03:31,671 When ten of the 11 batsman are out, 72 00:03:31,754 --> 00:03:35,508 it's called an "innings" and the other team bats. 73 00:03:36,175 --> 00:03:39,553 In traditional cricket, each team has two innings in the match 74 00:03:39,762 --> 00:03:42,431 and the team with the most runs at the end wins. 75 00:03:42,848 --> 00:03:45,226 If they haven't finished after five days, 76 00:03:45,643 --> 00:03:47,103 the umpire calls a draw. 77 00:03:48,145 --> 00:03:50,898 Technically there are ten ways to get out. 78 00:03:51,190 --> 00:03:52,984 But if you ask someone to explain them, 79 00:03:53,067 --> 00:03:55,820 cricket can get very confusing very quickly. 80 00:03:55,903 --> 00:03:58,781 Leg before wicket, one of the ways someone can be out 81 00:03:58,864 --> 00:04:00,324 and the nature of the umpire, 82 00:04:00,408 --> 00:04:02,493 the nature of fielding positions: 83 00:04:02,576 --> 00:04:05,871 silly mid-on, silly mid-off, extra cover, third man. 84 00:04:05,955 --> 00:04:09,458 It's all very coded and peculiar, cricket. I suppose that's the problem. 85 00:04:09,542 --> 00:04:12,169 [Mandvi] The British didn't just write the rules of cricket... 86 00:04:12,461 --> 00:04:14,171 they spread it around the world 87 00:04:14,255 --> 00:04:17,591 by taking it to their colonies in the 18th and 19th centuries. 88 00:04:17,925 --> 00:04:19,218 British soldiers played it, 89 00:04:19,302 --> 00:04:22,680 and the local people either took to it or didn't. 90 00:04:22,763 --> 00:04:24,557 In Canada, they didn't particularly. 91 00:04:24,640 --> 00:04:25,474 A bit cold. 92 00:04:26,058 --> 00:04:27,810 So they went to the ice hockey instead. 93 00:04:27,893 --> 00:04:30,479 But in the warmer countries, it seems obviously to have taken off. 94 00:04:31,147 --> 00:04:32,690 [Mandvi] Even the United States played 95 00:04:32,773 --> 00:04:35,526 before baseball became the patriotic pastime. 96 00:04:36,569 --> 00:04:40,656 America decided cricket smacked of colonialism, 97 00:04:40,740 --> 00:04:43,034 and therefore, they were not going to play. 98 00:04:43,117 --> 00:04:46,370 [Mandvi] But in other colonies, playing cricket was an opportunity 99 00:04:46,454 --> 00:04:49,206 to beat the colonizers at their own game. 100 00:04:49,290 --> 00:04:51,250 And the English began inviting teams 101 00:04:51,334 --> 00:04:54,754 to come test their skills against them in England. 102 00:04:54,837 --> 00:04:58,007 The competitions were called test matches, 103 00:04:58,257 --> 00:05:01,761 which is what the long form of the game continues to be called. 104 00:05:01,844 --> 00:05:05,306 Most of the countries and the top countries that play the game 105 00:05:05,389 --> 00:05:09,518 has that little element of wanting to get back at the English. 106 00:05:10,102 --> 00:05:12,229 [Mandvi] And the colonies got a new opportunity 107 00:05:12,313 --> 00:05:14,774 to do that starting in 1975, 108 00:05:14,899 --> 00:05:17,026 when cricket got a World Cup. 109 00:05:17,777 --> 00:05:20,738 Without the World Cup, cricket would still be a gentlemanly agreement. 110 00:05:20,821 --> 00:05:23,783 "Oh, yeah, we're free at that time of year. We'll come over." 111 00:05:23,866 --> 00:05:27,119 Whereas the World Cup gives everyone the chance to prove themselves. 112 00:05:27,203 --> 00:05:30,247 [Mandvi] In order to play a tournament, matches needed to be shorter 113 00:05:30,331 --> 00:05:32,792 and end with a winner and a loser. 114 00:05:32,875 --> 00:05:35,211 So they played a one-day form of the game 115 00:05:35,294 --> 00:05:38,089 that limited the number of overs faced by each team. 116 00:05:39,423 --> 00:05:40,383 [crowd roaring] 117 00:05:40,508 --> 00:05:44,011 The first two World Cups were both won by the West Indies. 118 00:05:44,095 --> 00:05:46,639 My mother was jumping in the kitchen when the West Indies were winning. 119 00:05:46,722 --> 00:05:48,349 Did she care about the game that much? No. 120 00:05:48,432 --> 00:05:50,393 Did she understand the game that much? No. 121 00:05:50,476 --> 00:05:53,521 But cricket meant a lot to us as West Indians, 122 00:05:53,604 --> 00:05:55,356 and not just in the Caribbean. 123 00:05:59,026 --> 00:06:02,279 [Mandvi] In the third World Cup, England didn't even make the finals. 124 00:06:02,822 --> 00:06:04,323 They had lost to India, 125 00:06:04,407 --> 00:06:06,450 a team playing against the West Indies 126 00:06:06,534 --> 00:06:09,412 after having won a single game in the first two World Cups. 127 00:06:10,955 --> 00:06:13,082 In the final, nobody gave India a chance. 128 00:06:13,165 --> 00:06:14,417 They were like interlopers. 129 00:06:14,500 --> 00:06:16,043 On the day of the match, the feeling was, 130 00:06:16,127 --> 00:06:17,962 "Who are these people? Why are they at Lord's? 131 00:06:18,045 --> 00:06:19,422 Why isn't England at Lord's?" 132 00:06:20,840 --> 00:06:23,008 [Mandvi] But on the turf of their former colonizer 133 00:06:23,092 --> 00:06:25,177 and with odds of 66 to one, 134 00:06:25,636 --> 00:06:26,637 India won. 135 00:06:33,269 --> 00:06:35,396 [Bose] In '83 was, for the first time, 136 00:06:35,646 --> 00:06:39,400 Indians at home watch their team win abroad. 137 00:06:39,483 --> 00:06:40,985 [crowd cheering] 138 00:06:41,777 --> 00:06:43,571 This is a new India emerging. 139 00:06:43,654 --> 00:06:46,740 I mean, the economic prosperity of India came a decade later. 140 00:06:46,824 --> 00:06:50,286 But if you think, that marked the moment when India was confident. 141 00:06:50,661 --> 00:06:52,288 [crowd cheering] 142 00:06:55,624 --> 00:06:57,918 We played like winners. 143 00:06:58,085 --> 00:07:00,087 Throughout the game, throughout the series. 144 00:07:00,171 --> 00:07:02,339 Everybody fight for their lives, 145 00:07:02,423 --> 00:07:04,133 and they said, "We will do it." 146 00:07:04,341 --> 00:07:07,303 Nineteen eighty-three, that generation began to feel 147 00:07:07,386 --> 00:07:10,806 they didn't look to have a merit certificate from England 148 00:07:10,890 --> 00:07:13,684 to feel that they were good enough to compete in the world. 149 00:07:13,767 --> 00:07:17,563 India, for the first time, began to show that a country of that size, 150 00:07:17,646 --> 00:07:19,899 if it has prosperity, 151 00:07:19,982 --> 00:07:21,901 if it has television reach, 152 00:07:22,109 --> 00:07:26,322 it can play an enormous part in reshaping cricket, which it has done. 153 00:07:26,405 --> 00:07:27,615 [Mandvi] Four years later, 154 00:07:27,698 --> 00:07:30,367 India hosted the first World Cup 155 00:07:30,451 --> 00:07:31,535 outside of England. 156 00:07:31,619 --> 00:07:33,746 [crowd cheering] 157 00:07:34,079 --> 00:07:36,081 There's an Indian word called "tamasha," 158 00:07:36,165 --> 00:07:39,043 which means fun, excitement, glamour, 159 00:07:39,793 --> 00:07:41,795 uncertainty all rolled into one. 160 00:07:41,879 --> 00:07:44,632 And one day cricket became instant tamasha. 161 00:07:47,343 --> 00:07:48,761 [crowd cheering] 162 00:07:50,054 --> 00:07:52,056 -[whistle blows] -[cheering continues] 163 00:07:54,141 --> 00:07:56,352 [Fry] You just are amazed 164 00:07:56,435 --> 00:07:59,188 that something that was started on green turf 165 00:07:59,271 --> 00:08:00,856 at the site of an English church, 166 00:08:01,190 --> 00:08:03,359 and, you know, polite applause 167 00:08:03,442 --> 00:08:05,319 and, "Well played, good fellow," 168 00:08:05,528 --> 00:08:09,240 becomes this screaming religious ceremony. 169 00:08:09,323 --> 00:08:11,617 -[crowd roaring] -[announcer 1] Pakistan win the World Cup. 170 00:08:11,825 --> 00:08:15,663 A magnificiant performance in front of 87,000 people. 171 00:08:15,746 --> 00:08:17,623 Imran Khan is waiting inside. 172 00:08:17,706 --> 00:08:18,958 [crowd cheering] 173 00:08:19,917 --> 00:08:22,628 [announcer 2] McGrath wide on the crease and that goes for four. 174 00:08:22,711 --> 00:08:25,297 And the crowd loving every minute of it. 175 00:08:29,385 --> 00:08:30,511 [announcer 3] Could be caught... 176 00:08:30,594 --> 00:08:31,637 Is caught. 177 00:08:32,137 --> 00:08:34,223 Sachin Tendulkar celebrates. 178 00:08:34,890 --> 00:08:36,600 [Kimber] Political power then became 179 00:08:36,684 --> 00:08:38,269 that the World Cup was worth so much money 180 00:08:38,352 --> 00:08:41,063 and that India and Pakistan were bringing in so much of that money, 181 00:08:41,146 --> 00:08:43,274 that the sort of democratization of the game, 182 00:08:43,357 --> 00:08:46,318 and it went from being England and Australia running the game 183 00:08:46,402 --> 00:08:47,403 to a more global thing. 184 00:08:48,112 --> 00:08:51,407 [Mandvi] In England, domestic cricket was losing fans, 185 00:08:51,991 --> 00:08:54,785 so something was done to save the sport at home, 186 00:08:55,327 --> 00:08:58,247 but it would only accelerate the power shift to Asia. 187 00:08:59,039 --> 00:09:01,667 In the early 2000s, a British TV Network paid for Stuart Robinson and his marketing team 188 00:09:04,461 --> 00:09:07,047 to research what the problem was. 189 00:09:07,339 --> 00:09:10,050 The key word that came out of that was cricket was "inaccessible." 190 00:09:10,134 --> 00:09:11,677 It was a sport for the posh. 191 00:09:11,760 --> 00:09:13,679 [Mandvi] Robertson had an idea: an even shorter form of cricket 192 00:09:15,764 --> 00:09:18,851 limited to just 20 overs for each team 193 00:09:19,059 --> 00:09:21,437 that would last three hours. 194 00:09:22,479 --> 00:09:24,023 [Robertson] And we asked those people 195 00:09:24,106 --> 00:09:26,692 if we introduced a game of cricket that lasted less than three hours, 196 00:09:26,775 --> 00:09:28,736 would they come to see the game? 197 00:09:29,236 --> 00:09:31,113 And all of those people who were indexed 198 00:09:31,196 --> 00:09:34,033 as never having come to a cricket match before, 199 00:09:34,241 --> 00:09:36,285 they massively over indexed in saying, 200 00:09:36,368 --> 00:09:37,578 "Yes, we would come to that." 201 00:09:38,120 --> 00:09:40,706 [Mandvi] They called the new format "twenty20," 202 00:09:40,789 --> 00:09:42,207 "T20" for short, 203 00:09:42,291 --> 00:09:45,377 and pitched it to the heads of English cricket at Lord's. 204 00:09:45,794 --> 00:09:48,547 We were arranged around this enormous table in alphabetical order. 205 00:09:48,631 --> 00:09:51,508 So it started with Darbyshire, then Durham, Essex, 206 00:09:51,592 --> 00:09:53,260 and it went all the way around to Yorkshire. 207 00:09:53,344 --> 00:09:55,888 You know, the 60-year-old white males 208 00:09:56,221 --> 00:09:58,557 who had loved their traditional cricket, don't particularly like change. 209 00:09:59,016 --> 00:10:00,059 Then the vote went up, 210 00:10:00,142 --> 00:10:02,227 started counting the hands as quickly as I could, 211 00:10:02,686 --> 00:10:05,689 and we realized that it was 11-seven in favor. 212 00:10:06,273 --> 00:10:09,735 [Mandvi] The next summer, T20 made its debut in England. 213 00:10:09,943 --> 00:10:11,445 The guy on the P.A. system, 214 00:10:11,528 --> 00:10:13,155 at start of the game, he said, 215 00:10:13,614 --> 00:10:15,532 "Welcome to the future of cricket." 216 00:10:16,116 --> 00:10:17,576 And it was amazing. It was a great statement. 217 00:10:18,160 --> 00:10:19,703 [Mandvi] Not everyone agreed. 218 00:10:19,787 --> 00:10:24,583 I still remain... to be sold on the idea. 219 00:10:24,667 --> 00:10:27,002 I don't like the razzmatazz that's going to go with it. 220 00:10:27,586 --> 00:10:29,338 [Mandvi] The rest of the world got their opportunity 221 00:10:29,421 --> 00:10:32,007 to judge the new format in 2005. 222 00:10:32,091 --> 00:10:35,094 [announcer] We welcome the world into Eden Park, Auckland, New Zealand, 223 00:10:35,177 --> 00:10:38,681 the first ever Twenty20 international in the history of the game. 224 00:10:39,139 --> 00:10:40,683 New Zealand against Australia. 225 00:10:40,766 --> 00:10:43,519 It felt a little bit like they weren't taking it very seriously. 226 00:10:43,602 --> 00:10:45,187 [announcer] And here they come. 227 00:10:45,562 --> 00:10:47,815 Look at Hamish Marshall in the background. 228 00:10:48,023 --> 00:10:50,275 -[laughter] -Goodness me. What is he on? 229 00:10:50,359 --> 00:10:52,194 Or a lot like they weren't taking it very seriously. 230 00:10:52,277 --> 00:10:54,113 They were all but drinking during the game. 231 00:10:54,196 --> 00:10:56,031 And that tells you how serious the game was. 232 00:10:56,115 --> 00:10:57,366 Oh, my heavens! 233 00:10:58,075 --> 00:11:00,452 They look like a psychedelic funk band 234 00:11:00,536 --> 00:11:03,997 from Chicago in 1975. 235 00:11:04,581 --> 00:11:06,125 [Mandvi] That reputation stuck, 236 00:11:06,208 --> 00:11:08,335 and when the format got its own World Cup, 237 00:11:08,419 --> 00:11:12,548 the advertising made it clear that T20 cricket was for... 238 00:11:12,631 --> 00:11:14,925 [man] Party people! 239 00:11:15,008 --> 00:11:18,387 The ICC World T20. From 11 to 24th of September 240 00:11:18,470 --> 00:11:20,305 it's off the hook! 241 00:11:20,806 --> 00:11:23,225 India were like, "This is stupid. We've already got one-day cricket. 242 00:11:23,308 --> 00:11:25,352 We're more than happy. We don't need this other stupid thing." 243 00:11:25,436 --> 00:11:27,479 T20 cricket was an English invention. 244 00:11:27,813 --> 00:11:30,107 India was almost dragged 245 00:11:30,357 --> 00:11:34,319 into the World Cup of 2007 in Johannesburg. 246 00:11:34,403 --> 00:11:35,946 They were were virtually dragged there. 247 00:11:36,029 --> 00:11:37,197 They sent over a young team. 248 00:11:38,365 --> 00:11:40,409 That happened to be the best thing they could've done, 249 00:11:40,492 --> 00:11:42,578 because a lot of the old players didn't really understand T20 cricket, 250 00:11:42,661 --> 00:11:44,788 whereas the young players kind of understood 251 00:11:44,872 --> 00:11:46,123 that you had to go as hard as you could. 252 00:11:48,125 --> 00:11:50,043 [announcer] Yuvraj goes into the crowd. 253 00:11:50,127 --> 00:11:51,587 That's massive. 254 00:11:52,171 --> 00:11:54,757 Of all the teams that India were playing, it was Pakistan. 255 00:11:54,840 --> 00:11:56,425 They were going to lose to Pakistan in the final, 256 00:11:56,508 --> 00:11:58,886 and then Misbah-ul-Haq, just as he's about to hit the winning runs, 257 00:11:58,969 --> 00:12:00,596 hits the ball straight up in the air. 258 00:12:01,889 --> 00:12:04,266 [announcer] In the air, Shrijan takes it. 259 00:12:04,475 --> 00:12:05,350 India wins! 260 00:12:06,518 --> 00:12:07,811 [Bose] The Johannesburg miracle. 261 00:12:07,895 --> 00:12:09,772 And, as a result of that, 262 00:12:10,189 --> 00:12:11,899 India said, "Oh, this is T20." 263 00:12:11,982 --> 00:12:14,109 If one day cricket was tamasha, 264 00:12:14,276 --> 00:12:15,652 this was super tamasha. 265 00:12:16,361 --> 00:12:20,574 [Mandvi] In 2008, India launched a new T20 tournament 266 00:12:20,741 --> 00:12:22,576 called the Indian Premier League. 267 00:12:22,659 --> 00:12:24,536 [man] Indian Premier League, say! 268 00:12:24,620 --> 00:12:27,915 [Mandvi] In the first two years, the IPL doubled in value. 269 00:12:28,248 --> 00:12:29,541 And in the decade since, 270 00:12:29,625 --> 00:12:31,710 it has developed a unique brand of cricket 271 00:12:31,794 --> 00:12:34,671 that combines entertainment with fast-paced action 272 00:12:34,755 --> 00:12:37,341 and attracts players from around the world. 273 00:12:37,424 --> 00:12:39,426 [crowd cheering] 274 00:12:39,968 --> 00:12:41,762 [narrator] Team owners include Bollywood stars 275 00:12:41,845 --> 00:12:44,306 like Preity Zinta and Shahrukh Khan, 276 00:12:44,389 --> 00:12:46,683 who take an active role in promoting the league. 277 00:12:47,267 --> 00:12:49,436 India, cricket, and film is a religion, 278 00:12:49,520 --> 00:12:52,189 and blending the two is quite a mix. 279 00:12:52,272 --> 00:12:53,148 It's quite exciting. 280 00:12:54,274 --> 00:12:59,613 With IPL, the Indians finally discovered a three-hour Bollywood movie 281 00:12:59,696 --> 00:13:01,198 which is actually live cricket. 282 00:13:01,740 --> 00:13:03,033 It is player number eight. 283 00:13:03,116 --> 00:13:05,077 [Mandvi] Every season opens with the auction 284 00:13:05,160 --> 00:13:07,454 where celebrity owners bid for players. 285 00:13:08,914 --> 00:13:10,791 Teams also create their own anthems, 286 00:13:11,291 --> 00:13:14,002 like this one promoting the Kolkata Knight Riders 287 00:13:14,086 --> 00:13:17,422 and featuring Bollywood star and team owner, Shah Rukh Khan. 288 00:13:17,673 --> 00:13:19,424 -♪ We're too hot ♪ -♪ Too hot ♪ 289 00:13:19,508 --> 00:13:21,218 -♪ We're too cool ♪ -♪ Too cool ♪ 290 00:13:21,301 --> 00:13:22,803 ♪ Kolkatta Night Riders ♪ 291 00:13:23,011 --> 00:13:24,137 ♪ We rule ♪ 292 00:13:25,138 --> 00:13:26,557 The Indian Premier League version, 293 00:13:26,640 --> 00:13:29,810 with its extraordinary made-for-television excitements 294 00:13:29,893 --> 00:13:33,313 and these wonderful sort of routines 295 00:13:33,397 --> 00:13:36,316 and dances and flames going up. 296 00:13:36,608 --> 00:13:39,361 They've brought in American... 297 00:13:39,903 --> 00:13:41,655 What do you call them? Not the can-can girls. 298 00:13:41,738 --> 00:13:43,365 The American cheerleaders. 299 00:13:43,907 --> 00:13:46,326 Cricket has never had a prime-time TV product 300 00:13:46,410 --> 00:13:48,287 that we can put on every night of the week. 301 00:13:48,370 --> 00:13:51,248 And that is essentially what has turned T20 in 302 00:13:51,331 --> 00:13:53,750 from being a very good game for crowds to go to 303 00:13:53,834 --> 00:13:55,627 to being the number one thing in cricket. 304 00:13:55,711 --> 00:13:56,628 There's no turning back. 305 00:13:56,712 --> 00:13:58,088 If the sponsors are telling you 306 00:13:58,171 --> 00:14:00,215 this is where they want to put their funds, and the spectators are coming through the gates 307 00:14:02,759 --> 00:14:05,929 and the TV rights are huge in T20 compared to other things, 308 00:14:06,013 --> 00:14:07,764 then you've got to run with it. 309 00:14:08,348 --> 00:14:09,683 [Mandvi] The number of international matches 310 00:14:09,766 --> 00:14:12,728 of one-day cricket has declined over the last decade, 311 00:14:12,895 --> 00:14:16,189 while the number of international T20s has increased. 312 00:14:16,690 --> 00:14:20,527 Over a century after England introduced test cricket to the colonies, 313 00:14:20,777 --> 00:14:24,114 this new form of the game has spread outwards from India. 314 00:14:24,656 --> 00:14:27,701 India has given a model for other countries to follow. 315 00:14:27,784 --> 00:14:30,245 When the IPL was successful, all these other places went, 316 00:14:30,329 --> 00:14:32,915 "Oh, we'll set up our own leagues and we'll try and be successful." 317 00:14:32,998 --> 00:14:35,208 The difference is that the money and the TV 318 00:14:35,292 --> 00:14:37,336 is just not as strong in some of those other places. 319 00:14:37,419 --> 00:14:40,047 So the BBL in Australia is very successful league. 320 00:14:40,422 --> 00:14:43,508 It just doesn't have a billion people willing to watch it. 321 00:14:43,592 --> 00:14:46,345 Now it is IPL is where they earn the money. 322 00:14:46,637 --> 00:14:49,473 All the cricketers from this country want to go and play in IPL. 323 00:14:50,307 --> 00:14:52,184 [Mandvi] When international cricketers were asked 324 00:14:52,267 --> 00:14:55,562 if they would consider rejecting an opportunity to play for their country if they were offered more money to play professional T20, 325 00:14:59,149 --> 00:15:01,109 half responded, "yes." 326 00:15:01,818 --> 00:15:04,029 People will develop an opinion 327 00:15:04,112 --> 00:15:06,198 that some players don't like playing for their country. 328 00:15:06,281 --> 00:15:07,741 They're just running the money down, 329 00:15:07,824 --> 00:15:09,868 but sport is about money, you know? 330 00:15:09,952 --> 00:15:12,245 You have to make a living. You're a sportsperson. 331 00:15:12,329 --> 00:15:13,830 This is entertainment. 332 00:15:13,914 --> 00:15:16,333 And you can watch it every night, and there'll be an unfolding narrative. 333 00:15:16,416 --> 00:15:17,960 And that's what sport is at its best. 334 00:15:18,043 --> 00:15:19,294 I've got no problem with that. 335 00:15:19,503 --> 00:15:21,546 If cricket isn't trying to entertain people, 336 00:15:21,630 --> 00:15:23,423 I'm not really sure why we're playing it. 337 00:15:23,507 --> 00:15:24,633 The game has evolved. 338 00:15:24,841 --> 00:15:28,679 And, again, entertainment is key. 339 00:15:28,762 --> 00:15:31,598 So even though I have a great appreciation for test cricket 340 00:15:31,682 --> 00:15:35,727 and my career was spanned over the period when test cricket was strong, 341 00:15:35,811 --> 00:15:39,523 I still have an understanding of where the game has to go, 342 00:15:39,606 --> 00:15:40,774 where it has gone, 343 00:15:40,857 --> 00:15:42,192 and there's no turning back. 344 00:15:42,859 --> 00:15:44,403 [Mandvi] And wherever the game goes, 345 00:15:45,070 --> 00:15:49,074 it won't be decided by British gentleman sitting in a boardroom. 346 00:15:50,158 --> 00:15:51,284 [kids shouting] 347 00:15:51,410 --> 00:15:53,704 The power of cricket has shifted from England to India. 348 00:15:53,787 --> 00:15:55,330 There's no question about it. 349 00:15:55,414 --> 00:15:57,708 Why Lord's is still seen as the home of cricket? 350 00:15:57,791 --> 00:15:59,292 That's the symbolic home of cricket. 351 00:15:59,376 --> 00:16:03,880 It's like seeing Rome as the great capital of the world. 352 00:16:03,964 --> 00:16:05,799 That was a long time ago. 353 00:16:05,882 --> 00:16:07,467 You know, that is in history.