Sri Lanka will be looking for the elusive test match and series win when they tour India for a Three Test, five ODI and Two T20 match series from November to December 2009. The team arrive in India on November 8th for the 55-day tour.
Multiple language commentary during India-Australia cricket series
Sep 13, 2007
Neo Sports, the exclusive telecast rights holders of the upcoming ODI cricket series between India and Australia, will air commentary feeds in Hindi, Tamil and Telugu in addition to English during the tournament.
Former Indian players - Nayan Mongia, Atul Wasan and Yashpal Sharma will provide Hindi commentary. The Tamil commetary would be given by Abdul Jabbar, V Ramamurthy and SB Venkataram.
In Telugu Chandra Mohan and Sudheer Mahavadi will provide their expertise.
The seven-match series, which starts September 29, will be broadcast live on Neo Sports and Neo Sports Plus.
The channel has exclusive rights to broadcast all the cricket matches played in India under the auspices of the BCCI.
The 2009 ICC World Twenty20 is a Twenty20 cricket tournament scheduled to take place in England in June of 2009. It will be the second World Twenty20 and will consist of 12 teams, contested by all Test-playing nations plus qualifiers (Ireland, Netherlands and Scotland)
The Champions Twenty20 League, formed with the official sanction of ICC will kick off in October 2008. Eight domestic teams from four nations will participate. Cricket Australia will partner the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI), the England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB) and Cricket South Africa (CSA). The champion team in the Champions Twenty20 league will get US $5 million, which is the highest ever prize money for a cricket event.
