Quoted: A new cricket league is trying to spin off India’s colonial inheritance into a money-making symbol of a brash, emerging nation.

I hope they will offer some of the realtime experiences (e.g. GameDay) that you can get for baseball through mlb.com

Quoted: Here’s a deal straight out of Rupert Murdoch’s playbook circa 1994. Just like Murdoch established Fox back then by paying an exorbitant-seeming sum ($1.6 billion at the time) for the rights to broadcast the NFL, Live Current Media is paying $50 million over ten years for the exclusive online rights to official content from the Indian Premier League (a new cricket league in India with a shorter, more fan-friendly version of the game—first match is tomorrow).

Quoted: Indian newspapers hail the country's cricket team's one-day series victory over Australia.

Quoted: Millions watched their national team beat Pakistan to win the inaugural Twenty20 world tournament in September. Yet it is not clear that a domestic Twenty20 competition will excite the same passions. That will not especially trouble the BCCI. Even after dishing out some broadcasting revenue, it will have earned itself over $1 billion for doing remarkably little. What will it do with the money?

This is apparently a big deal. My Indian friends' have updated their Facebook and MSN Messenger statuses saying how excited they are:)

Quoted: India beat Pakistan in the World Twenty20 final by five runs to clinch their first major trophy since 1983.

Wow, this is very cool! Can't wait to see something similar for baseball and tennis (my two favorite sports to watch).

Quoted: Cricinfo's coverage is a 3D animated representation "created from Cricinfo's rich scoring data." It's the next best thing to live tv coverage on the Web, which is no doubt too expensive for Cricinfo to purchase. Using 3D, Web viewers can see a graphical representation of the cricket shots being played live, "shortly after the actual action has taken place".