With only weeks to go before the Fifa World Cup kicks off in North America, broadcasters in India and China, home to 2.8 billion people between them, are yet to secure rights to show it, raising the prospect of the world’s biggest sporting event going dark in two of its most populous countries.
The 48-team tournament starts on 11 June with Mexico playing South Africa at the Estadio Azteca in Mexico City in the first of 104 matches.
