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Disney joins forces with India's Reliance Industries to create massive new streaming platform 

by Stephanie Hughes
Feb 29, 2024
The joint venture between Disney and Reliance Industries will have an audience of more than 750 million people.
Disney is looking to expand its footprint in India by creating a new streaming platform that would include Disney films and TV, as well as sports like cricket.
Narinder Nanu/AFP via Getty Images
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Take me out to the cricket game? Investors launch a professional league for the U.S.

by Henry Epp
Jul 13, 2023
Major League Cricket is starting with modest ambitions — a two-week season — but it hopes the game's popularity will spread in the U.S.
Indian cricketer Rohit Sharma. Cricket has a huge fan base in South Asia, and Major League Cricket hopes to take the sport pro in the United States.
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Friday nights in one small town in Texas means football and ... cricket?

by Andy Uhler
Aug 7, 2018
Businessman Tanweer Ahmed will start by promoting his "dream project," the country's largest cricket complex, to the South Asian community that already enjoys the sport.
The developer's rendering of the new Kalsoom Prairie View Cricket Complex in Prairie View, Texas, population 6,000. The first four fields are set to be completed by September.
Courtesy of Tanweer Ahmed
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