Sport's New Superpower

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From Bollywood stars in their corporate boxes to the children playing on every street corner - they're all going cricket crazy. As the Indian Premier League teams the world's biggest players with billion-dollar business deals, Angus Fraser witnesses the birth of a very different ball game

From the moment when India's cricket-crazy fans experienced the high-octane frenzy of 20-over cricket while watching their side win last September's World Twenty20 Championship in South Africa, and the sport's administrators realised they could transform this bite- sized form of the game into a multi-billion-dollar industry, the Board of Control for Cricket in India was always going to …