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User_gary Posted 16 years ago
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Primary courier, dead pocket, numbers

If Twenty20 is the agent of change, the primary carrier will be the South Asian diaspora; it is now a truly global presence that has either the numbers or the wealth, or both, to make Twenty20 viable in some form - from TV rights or from bums on seats - almost anywhere in the world. Whether it's a group of locals and expats playing in a purely local tournament, or a roadshow featuring stars from the IPL and Champions League, who's to say it's not viable? An IPL XI (or two) could feature players from every single Test-playing nation, enough to draw in crowds wherever they play.
Ultimately, cricket's road to going global could lie with the Olympic Games. The sport was last played in the Olympics in 1900 but talk of re-entry started soon after the inaugural IPL season. "This is a win-win for the Olympic movement and the ICC and its members," Adam Gilchrist said at the time. "Firstly, the Olympic movement's only remaining dead pocket in the world happens to coincide with cricket's strongest - the sub continent. This region, which includes India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka and Bangladesh, represents just over one fifth of the world's population." Joining the Olympic movement will open up the sport to accountability, checks, balances and some sort of regulation but that would be a small price to pay for winning over the world.

Source : http://www.cricinfo.com/decadereview2009/content/story/442972.html

Could you please explain to me the emboldened parts?
  

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Hi, If Twenty20 is the agent of change, the primary carrier the main means by which change will be spread will be the South Asian diaspora; it is now a truly global presence that has either the numbers the necessary number of people or the wealth, or both, to make Twenty20 viable in some form - from TV rights or from bums on seats - almost anywhere in the world. Whether it's a group of locals and expats playing in a purely local tournament, or a roadshow featuring stars from the IPL and Champions League, who's to say it's not viable? An IPL XI (or two) could feature players from every single Test-playing nation, enough to draw in crowds wherever they play.

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  • Hi, If Twenty20 is the agent of change, the primary carrier the main means by which change will be spread will be the South Asian diaspora; it is now a truly global presence that has either the numbers the necessary number of people or the wealth, or both, to make Twenty20 viable in some form - from TV rights or from bums on seats - almost anywhere in the world.
  • Whether it's a group of locals and expats playing in a purely local tournament, or a roadshow featuring stars from the IPL and Champions League, who's to say it's not viable?
  • An IPL XI (or two) could feature players from every single Test-playing nation, enough to draw in crowds wherever they play.
  • Ultimately, cricket's road to going global could lie with the Olympic Games.
  • The sport was last played in the Olympics in 1900 but talk of re-entry started soon after the inaugural IPL season.
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Hi,

If Twenty20 is the agent of change, the primary carrier the main means by which change will be spread

will be the South Asian diaspora;

it is now a truly global presence that has either the numbers the necessary number of people or the wealth, or both, to make Twenty20 viable in some form - from TV rights or from bums on seats - almost anywhe
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