Cricket out of Water: The Sport Behind Disney’s Million Dollar Arm

It’s a story that seems tailor-made for film: the surprise twist is that it’s true. Million Dollar Arm, the latest feel-good sports flick from Disney, tells the tale of a down and out sports agent (Jon Hamm) who turned two Indian cricket players into Major League pitchers.

Rinku Singh and Dinesh Patel were both seventeen years old, speaking no English and raised in villages without cellphones,