GREAT FRIENDS: Yuvraj Singh and Mandira Bedi at a press conference to announce Indias Road to the Finals, a new show on Sony MAXI couldnt sleep the night before the India-Pakistan World Cup match. Dont ask me how I managed to get rest that night, said Yuvraj Singh at a press conference yesterday. Almost instantly, cricket commentator and presenter Charu Sharma asked, So how did you get rest that night, Yuvraj? The dapper cricketer replied, I went to the physiotherapists room and got a sleeping pill!
Sony MAX is the channel digging up the stories and the dirt on the Cricket World Cup 2003, in a programme titled Indias Road to the Finals. To be aired at 5 pm every weekend starting September 27, the show will cover all 11 matches played by our boys in South Africa.
SET India CEO Kunal Dasgupta, Rajat Jain, Mandira Bedi, Yuvraj Singh and Charu Sharma We didnt want to just rerun the matches. This is not a cut and paste job of three-and-a-half hours of play. Weve repackaged the matches with a MAX angle, says SET India CEO Kunal Dasgupta. Bringing in Mandira Bedi and Charu Sharma to chat in their inimitable style with past and present cricket personalities Arun Lal, Kapil Dev, Rahul Dravid and Mohammad Kaif included Indias Road to the Finals seems like it will be eminently watchable.
Experts, those on the team and in the know, will discuss what happened during each game and why, giving viewers the inside story on each match.
From the now-famous huddle and what Yuvrajs mother told him before he set off for the World Cup, to some great Sidhu-esque howlers from Harbhajan Singh, this show breaks down Indias performance with anecdotes, jokes, analysis and the matches themselves thrown in.
Definitely recommended for cricket connoisseurs and enthusiasts.
