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Shah Rukh Khan's Knight Riders Group owns franchises in India, Trinidad, Abu Dhabi and Los Angeles competing across four leagues, twelve months of the year, on three continents. Almost nobody noticed it happen. In 2008, Shah Rukh Khan paid roughly $75 million for a cricket team in Kolkata. In 2026, the organisation he built around that team operates across four T20 leagues, has just opened the first privately owned cricket stadium built by a franchise outside its home country

Mohammad al-Waheidi had been working for weeks to set up screens.In the spaces between destroyed buildings and overcrowded tents around Gaza City, al-Waheidi and his colleagues from the Egyptian Relief Committee set up screens to allow displaced families to enjoy the games of the 2026 World Cup. Families with no access to running water and electricity, families who knew nothing for sure about the next day gathered every evening to watch football. On July 8, a day before the g