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[narrator] Cricket is
an old British sport.
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Very well played, sir.
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Cricket... of course,
doesn't even have rules.
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It has laws.
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And that immediately strikes some people
as pompous and self-regarding.
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[narrator] Those laws were mostly written
in 19th-century London
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at a pitch still considered
the home of cricket
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called Lord's.
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[newsreel narrator] For this is Lord's:
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deeply rooted in tradition
and in the ritual tradition brings.
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You know, God bless cricket.
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It has a tea break in the game.
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[Brian Lara]
It's definitely a test of attrition.
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A lot of people can't get
their mind around,
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"How do you stand out there
for five days?"
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[narrator] But cricket has changed.
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There's a new form of the sport
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That's bringing in more money,
fans, and a different style of play.
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But one thing hasn't changed.
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[Kimber] It's complicated.
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It is one of the most complicated sports
on Earth.
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It's totally wiggly.
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It doesn't even follow
any apparent obvious reason.
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[narrator] That didn't put off
the one billion people
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that were estimated to have watched
a single cricket match in 2015
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between India and Pakistan.
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That's one in seven humans.
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So how did this confusing British game
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become one
of the most popular sports on Earth?
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[newsreel announcer] And here's
the England side coming into the field.
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[crowd cheering] [newsreel narrator] A subtle battle
between a slice of willow
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and a round of leather.
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[man shouts] Yeah! Got it.
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[crowd cheering]
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[announcer 1] West Indian skipper,
Brian Lara.
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[announcer 2] What a great victory.
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[announcer 3] Unbelievable scenes
here at the World Cup.
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[announcer 4] This is certainly not
an Englishman's game anymore.
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[theme music playing]
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[Mandvi] Two teams of 11 play each other
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on a field shaped like an oval.
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The batting team has two players
on the field at a time
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on either end of the pitch.
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They're trying to score runs,
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while the fielding team
is trying to get them out. On each side of the pitch is a wicket.
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The wicket is three stumps
topped by two bails.
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A batsman stands in front of a wicket
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trying to hit the ball
delivered by a bowler
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from the other end of the pitch.
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If the batsman hits the ball,
they score runs
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by exchanging positions
with the other batsmen.
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Each exchange equals one run.
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While they're running,
the fielders try to get the ball
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and hit one of the wickets
before a batsman gets there.
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If they don't make it before the ball
knocks the bails off the stumps,
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they're out and the new batsman comes in.
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If the batsman hits the ball hard enough,
they won't have to run.
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If they hit it to the boundary,
it's worth four runs.
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And all the way over the boundary...
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that's six.
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If a fielder catches the ball,
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the batsman is out.
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The bowler can also get a batsman out
if their delivery hits the wicket,
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knocking the bails off the stumps.
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A batsman can choose not to swing
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or swing and miss the ball,
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and he won't get out
as long as the wicket is safe.
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The bowler, however, can only bowl
six deliveries at a time.
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That's called an "over,"
and it's really important.
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After each over,
a teammate takes their place.
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When ten of the 11 batsman are out,
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it's called an "innings"
and the other team bats.
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In traditional cricket, each team
has two innings in the match
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and the team
with the most runs at the end wins.
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If they haven't finished after five days,
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the umpire calls a draw.
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Technically there are ten ways to get out.
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But if you ask someone to explain them,
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cricket can get very confusing
very quickly.
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Leg before wicket, one of the ways
someone can be out
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and the nature of the umpire,
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the nature of fielding positions:
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silly mid-on, silly mid-off,
extra cover, third man.
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It's all very coded and peculiar, cricket.
I suppose that's the problem.
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[Mandvi] The British didn't just write
the rules of cricket...
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they spread it around the world
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by taking it to their colonies
in the 18th and 19th centuries.
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British soldiers played it,
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and the local people
either took to it or didn't.
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In Canada, they didn't particularly.
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A bit cold.
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So they went to the ice hockey instead.
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But in the warmer countries,
it seems obviously to have taken off.
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[Mandvi] Even the United States played
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before baseball
became the patriotic pastime.
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America decided
cricket smacked of colonialism,
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and therefore,
they were not going to play.
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[Mandvi] But in other colonies,
playing cricket was an opportunity
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to beat the colonizers at their own game.
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And the English began inviting teams
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to come test their skills
against them in England.
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The competitions were called test matches,
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which is what the long form of the game
continues to be called.
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Most of the countries
and the top countries that play the game
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has that little element
of wanting to get back at the English.
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[Mandvi] And the colonies
got a new opportunity
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to do that starting in 1975,
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when cricket got a World Cup.
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Without the World Cup, cricket
would still be a gentlemanly agreement.
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"Oh, yeah, we're free at that time of year.
We'll come over."
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Whereas the World Cup gives everyone
the chance to prove themselves.
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[Mandvi] In order to play a tournament,
matches needed to be shorter
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and end with a winner and a loser.
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So they played a one-day form of the game
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that limited the number of overs
faced by each team.
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[crowd roaring]
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The first two World Cups
were both won by the West Indies.
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My mother was jumping in the kitchen
when the West Indies were winning.
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Did she care about the game that much? No.
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Did she understand the game that much? No.
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But cricket meant
a lot to us as West Indians,
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and not just in the Caribbean.
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[Mandvi] In the third World Cup,
England didn't even make the finals.
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They had lost to India,
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a team playing against the West Indies
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after having won a single game
in the first two World Cups.
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In the final, nobody gave India a chance.
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They were like interlopers.
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On the day of the match,
the feeling was,
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"Who are these people?
Why are they at Lord's?
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Why isn't England at Lord's?"
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[Mandvi] But on the turf
of their former colonizer
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and with odds of 66 to one,
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India won.
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[Bose] In '83 was, for the first time,
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Indians at home
watch their team win abroad.
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[crowd cheering]
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This is a new India emerging.
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I mean, the economic prosperity of India
came a decade later.
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But if you think, that marked
the moment when India was confident.
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[crowd cheering]
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We played like winners.
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Throughout the game,
throughout the series.
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Everybody fight for their lives,
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and they said, "We will do it."
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Nineteen eighty-three,
that generation began to feel
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they didn't look to have
a merit certificate from England
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to feel that they were good enough
to compete in the world.
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India, for the first time, began to show
that a country of that size,
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if it has prosperity,
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if it has television reach,
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it can play an enormous part
in reshaping cricket, which it has done.
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[Mandvi] Four years later,
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India hosted the first World Cup
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outside of England.
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[crowd cheering]
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There's an Indian word called "tamasha,"
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which means fun, excitement, glamour,
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uncertainty all rolled into one.
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And one day cricket
became instant tamasha.
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[crowd cheering]
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-[whistle blows]
-[cheering continues]
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[Fry] You just are amazed
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that something that was
started on green turf
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at the site of an English church,
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and, you know, polite applause
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and, "Well played, good fellow,"
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becomes this screaming
religious ceremony.
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-[crowd roaring]
-[announcer 1] Pakistan win the World Cup.
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A magnificiant performance
in front of 87,000 people.
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Imran Khan is waiting inside.
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[crowd cheering]
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[announcer 2] McGrath wide on the crease
and that goes for four.
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And the crowd loving every minute of it.
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[announcer 3] Could be caught...
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Is caught.
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Sachin Tendulkar celebrates.
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[Kimber] Political power then became
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that the World Cup
was worth so much money
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and that India and Pakistan
were bringing in so much of that money,
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that the sort of democratization
of the game,
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and it went from being England
and Australia running the game
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to a more global thing.
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[Mandvi] In England,
domestic cricket was losing fans,
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so something was done
to save the sport at home,
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but it would only accelerate
the power shift to Asia.
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In the early 2000s, a British TV Network paid for Stuart Robinson
and his marketing team
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to research what the problem was.
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The key word that came out of that
was cricket was "inaccessible."
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It was a sport for the posh.
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[Mandvi] Robertson had an idea: an even shorter form of cricket
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limited to just 20 overs for each team
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that would last three hours.
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[Robertson] And we asked those people
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if we introduced a game of cricket
that lasted less than three hours,
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would they come to see the game?
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And all of those people who were indexed
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as never having come
to a cricket match before,
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they massively over indexed in saying,
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"Yes, we would come to that."
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[Mandvi] They called the new format
"twenty20,"
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"T20" for short,
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and pitched it to the heads
of English cricket at Lord's.
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We were arranged around
this enormous table in alphabetical order.
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So it started with Darbyshire,
then Durham, Essex,
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and it went all the way around
to Yorkshire.
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You know,
the 60-year-old white males
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who had loved their traditional cricket,
don't particularly like change.
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Then the vote went up,
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started counting the hands
as quickly as I could,
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and we realized
that it was 11-seven in favor.
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[Mandvi] The next summer,
T20 made its debut in England.
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The guy on the P.A. system,
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at start of the game, he said,
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"Welcome to the future of cricket."
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And it was amazing.
It was a great statement.
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[Mandvi] Not everyone agreed.
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I still remain... to be sold on the idea.
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I don't like the razzmatazz
that's going to go with it.
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[Mandvi] The rest of the world
got their opportunity
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to judge the new format in 2005.
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[announcer] We welcome the world
into Eden Park, Auckland, New Zealand,
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the first ever Twenty20 international
in the history of the game.
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New Zealand against Australia.
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It felt a little bit like they
weren't taking it very seriously.
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[announcer] And here they come.
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Look at Hamish Marshall in the background.
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-[laughter]
-Goodness me. What is he on?
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Or a lot like they weren't
taking it very seriously.
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They were all but drinking
during the game.
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And that tells you
how serious the game was.
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Oh, my heavens!
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They look like a psychedelic funk band
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from Chicago in 1975.
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[Mandvi] That reputation stuck,
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and when the format got its own World Cup,
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the advertising made it clear
that T20 cricket was for...
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[man] Party people!
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The ICC World T20.
From 11 to 24th of September
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it's off the hook!
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India were like, "This is stupid.
We've already got one-day cricket.
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We're more than happy.
We don't need this other stupid thing."
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T20 cricket was an English invention.
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India was almost dragged
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into the World Cup of 2007
in Johannesburg.
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They were were virtually dragged there.
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They sent over a young team.
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That happened to be
the best thing they could've done,
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because a lot of the old players
didn't really understand T20 cricket,
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whereas the young players
kind of understood
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that you had to go as hard as you could.
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[announcer] Yuvraj goes into the crowd.
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That's massive.
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Of all the teams that India were playing,
it was Pakistan.
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They were going to lose
to Pakistan in the final,
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and then Misbah-ul-Haq, just as he's
about to hit the winning runs,
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hits the ball straight up in the air.
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[announcer] In the air, Shrijan takes it.
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India wins!
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[Bose] The Johannesburg miracle.
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And, as a result of that,
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India said, "Oh, this is T20."
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If one day cricket was tamasha,
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this was super tamasha.
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[Mandvi] In 2008, India launched
a new T20 tournament
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called the Indian Premier League.
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[man] Indian Premier League, say!
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[Mandvi] In the first two years,
the IPL doubled in value.
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And in the decade since,
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it has developed
a unique brand of cricket
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that combines entertainment
with fast-paced action
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and attracts players
from around the world.
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[crowd cheering]
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[narrator] Team owners
include Bollywood stars
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like Preity Zinta and Shahrukh Khan,
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who take an active role
in promoting the league.
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India, cricket, and film is a religion,
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and blending the two is quite a mix.
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It's quite exciting.
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With IPL, the Indians finally discovered
a three-hour Bollywood movie
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which is actually live cricket.
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It is player number eight.
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[Mandvi] Every season opens
with the auction
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where celebrity owners bid for players.
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Teams also create their own anthems,
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like this one promoting
the Kolkata Knight Riders
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and featuring Bollywood star
and team owner, Shah Rukh Khan.
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-♪ We're too hot ♪
-♪ Too hot ♪
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-♪ We're too cool ♪
-♪ Too cool ♪
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♪ Kolkatta Night Riders ♪
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♪ We rule ♪
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The Indian Premier League version,
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with its extraordinary
made-for-television excitements
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and these wonderful sort of routines
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and dances and flames going up.
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They've brought in American...
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What do you call them?
Not the can-can girls.
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The American cheerleaders.
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Cricket has never had
a prime-time TV product
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that we can put on
every night of the week.
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And that is essentially
what has turned T20 in
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from being a very good game
for crowds to go to
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to being the number one thing in cricket.
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There's no turning back.
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If the sponsors are telling you
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this is where they want
to put their funds, and the spectators
are coming through the gates
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and the TV rights are huge
in T20 compared to other things,
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then you've got to run with it.
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[Mandvi] The number
of international matches
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of one-day cricket
has declined over the last decade,
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while the number of international T20s
has increased.
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Over a century after England introduced
test cricket to the colonies,
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this new form of the game
has spread outwards from India.
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India has given a model
for other countries to follow.
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When the IPL was successful,
all these other places went,
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"Oh, we'll set up our own leagues
and we'll try and be successful."
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The difference is
that the money and the TV
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is just not as strong
in some of those other places.
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So the BBL in Australia
is very successful league.
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It just doesn't have
a billion people willing to watch it.
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Now it is IPL
is where they earn the money.
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All the cricketers from this country
want to go and play in IPL.
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[Mandvi] When international cricketers
were asked
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if they would consider rejecting
an opportunity to play for their country if they were offered more money
to play professional T20,
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half responded, "yes."
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People will develop an opinion
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that some players don't like
playing for their country.
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They're just running the money down,
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but sport is about money, you know?
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You have to make a living.
You're a sportsperson.
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This is entertainment.
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And you can watch it every night,
and there'll be an unfolding narrative.
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And that's what sport is at its best.
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I've got no problem with that.
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If cricket
isn't trying to entertain people,
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I'm not really sure why we're playing it.
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The game has evolved.
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And, again, entertainment is key.
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So even though I have a great appreciation
for test cricket
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and my career was spanned over the period
when test cricket was strong,
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I still have an understanding of where
the game has to go,
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where it has gone,
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and there's no turning back.
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[Mandvi] And wherever the game goes,
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it won't be decided by British gentleman
sitting in a boardroom.
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[kids shouting]
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The power of cricket has shifted
from England to India.
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There's no question about it.
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Why Lord's is still seen
as the home of cricket?
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That's the symbolic home of cricket.
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It's like seeing Rome
as the great capital of the world.
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That was a long time ago.
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You know, that is in history.