A sports agent, looking straight into the camera, makes a silky pitch to a prospective client: “You deserve to cash in.” We’re in familiar territory here – that sports agent, JB Bernstein, is played by Jon Hamm, who we’ve been watching seduce clients for years as a star ad man on Mad Men. But then Hamm exhales shakily, his flop sweat comes into focus, and we realize this was just a practice run, delivered to his partner Aash (Aasif Mandvi) at a boutique agency that’s about one bounced check away from shutting down. JB doesn’t land the account, but after a late-night beer binge spent toggling back and forth between a televised cricket match and Susan Boyle’s breakthrough on Britain’s Got Talent, he does alight on a creative solution: He’ll go to India, throw a contest to find a couple of promising cricket bowlers, and turn them into major-league pitchers.
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