Summer in Australia is often set to the soundtrack of a Test cricket match. That sentimentality can get in the way of seeing cricket for what it is: a hyper-commercial cash machine.
Zouhair El Moutaraji celebrates Morocco’s Wydad AC winning at the Caf Champions League in 2022.
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The England cricket captain’s reaction to a homophobic insult shows how far attitudes have changed – and how much sport needs champions like him to promote diversity.
Controversies over sport, gambling and TV have tended to overshadow changes to the anti-siphoning scheme.
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The proposed anti-siphoning changes certainly shift the economic balance from free-to-air to pay-TV, as well as from government intervention in the sport TV market to more open market play.