Media rights make cricket cash-rich
Mumbai, Jan. 16 -- Thirty-five years ago, when the staff of British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) went on strike, Indian cricket fans missed watching one of the best one day innings cricketer Kapil Dev has played - 175 not out against Zimbabwe in the 1983 World Cup. Ten years later, in 1993, the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) ditched the state-run broadcaster - Doordarshan (DD) - and sold the rights to televise all of India's matches to private broadcasters....
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