Make that sale

Cricket boards and advertisers aren't the only ones taking advantage of the sport's mass appeal. Big games attract all sorts of enterprising folks looking to cash in on the popularity of the occasion, such as this vendor selling cricket bats on a street corner in Nagpur during the 2011 World Cup.

Biodegradable vuvuzelas, anyone? They are hand-crafted and create less noise pollution. Bangalore, 2011.

That shirt will just sell itself. Rawalpindi, 2012.

Before live scores were easily available - on the radio or over the phone - you could get the latest updates on the street. Here, newspaper sellers try to attract customers by flagging the report of England's Bodyline series victory in Australia in 1933.

A good salesman will look to turn the unpleasant task of collecting footwear abandoned outside a stadium after the crowd scattered during a police charge into a healthy profit. Ahmedabad, 2011.

The impulse buy while waiting to enter the stadium. Mumbai, 2013.

A food vendor sells beans and rice by the boundary at a tour game in Lahore, 2000.

Selling typewriters outside the ground to frantic journalists on deadline? That's some smart thinking. But no, the Bedser twins were actually planning their post-retirement careers when they went into the office equipment business in 1954. Here, in their store in Woking in 1955, they look at some Blue Bird typewriters before leaving on a trip to Australia.