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  • Hotstar to exclusively live-stream Paytm Ranji Trophy

    Hotstar to exclusively live-stream Paytm Ranji Trophy

    MUMBAI: Underscoring its position as the home of cricket, Hotstar, a video streaming platform, is the exclusive partner for the Paytm Ranji Trophy 2017-18. The Paytm Ranji Trophy, now in its 84th season, kicked off on October 6th with the group stage matches.

    This season of the Trophy is especially exciting as it will see a long list of Indian cricket stars in action – Ravichandran Ashwin, Cheteshwar Pujara, Murali Vijay, Ishant Sharma, Ravindra Jadeja, to name a few.

    A Hotstar spokesperson said, “Hotstar has made large strides in providing a breakthrough sports viewing experience with innovations like the Fangraph and Key Moments. While the viewing devices could be individual, these innovations provide a more social and connected sports viewing experience, which raises the bar for a sports enthusiast. We are very excited to be the exclusive home of the Paytm Ranji Trophy this year.”

    “The Ranji Trophy has an illustrious and long history in India, and this season should be especially exciting considering the number of India’s international players that are going to be turning out for their teams. Given Hotstar’s cricket viewing experience, we are very excited to partner with them for this season of the Paytm Ranji Trophy,” added a BCCI spokesperson.

    The tournament, played between 28 teams from across India, moves into quarter finals on 7 December, with the final matches slated between 29 December 2017 and 2 January 2018.

    The tournament will be available, live, exclusively on Hotstar starting from the qualifier matches.

  • IPL auction: Yuvraj goes to RCB for Rs 14 cr; DD bags Karthik (Rs 12.5 cr) & KP (Rs 9 cr)

    IPL auction: Yuvraj goes to RCB for Rs 14 cr; DD bags Karthik (Rs 12.5 cr) & KP (Rs 9 cr)

    MUMBAI: The auction of players for the seventh season of Indian Premiere League (IPL) is currently underway in Bengaluru and it’s certainly got everyone’s attention. The auction this year is the biggest with 514 players in the pool – 219 capped players (169 Indians / 50 overseas) and 292 uncapped players (255 Indians / 37 overseas).

     

    The first player to go under the hammer was CSK’s opener Murali Vijay, opening at a base price of Rs 2 crore. He will now be seen in the Delhi Daredevil’s camp after the team bought him for a cool Rs 5 crore.

     

    Next up for bidding was Sri Lanka’s ‘Mr.Dependable’ – Mahela Jayawardena – who went unsold.

     

    After having been shunned by the national side – England – the South African-born Kevin Pietersen was next under the hammer and after some frantic bidding went for a high price of Rs 9 crore to Delhi Daredevils as the team used its right-to-match after Sunrisers won the bid.

     

    The biggest bet was for Yuvraj Singh. After the bid for Yuvraj went past Pietersen’s value, Banglore entered the scene and almost got him for Rs 10 crore. KKR then entered the fray and RCB had to finally make a winning bid of Rs 14 crore for the Punjab lad.

     

    The surprise package was Dinesh Karthik, who just about managed to steal Yuvi’s thunder with a cool bid of Rs 12.5 crore from Delhi Daredevils. 

     

    Other highlights are:

     

    # CSK bags Kallis for Rs 5.5 crore. But, the Kolkata Knight Riders have matched the bid.

    # Virender Sehwag to KXIP Rs 3.20 crore.

    # David Warner goes to Sunrisers Hyderabad for Rs 5.50 crore.

    # Brendon McCullum to CSK for Rs 3.25 crore.

    # Mumbai Indians get Michael Hussey for Rs 5 crore.

    # Sunrisers Hyderabad reclaim Amit Mishra using their right-to-match card. They get him for Rs 4.75 crore.

    # Mumbai Indians win the bid for Zaheer with Rs. 2.6 crore.

    # Aaron Finch goes to Sunrisers Hyderabad for Rs. 4 crore.

    # Robin Uthappa sold to KKR for Rs 5 crore.

    # Rajasthan Royals win the bid of Rs. 2.40 crore for Brad Hodge.

    # KXIP get Shaun Marsh for Rs 2.20 crore.

    # Manoj Tiwary to Delhi Daredevils Rs 2.8 crore.

    # Dwayne Smith goes to Chennai Super Kings for Rs 4.5 crore.

  • Aircel launches marketing campaign with CSK for IPL 2013

    MUMBAI: Aircel, the official sponsor of Chennai Super Kings team, has launched the ‘Kaun Dega Man of the Match‘ contest for all its prepaid and postpaid subscribers.

    The contest gives three lucky winners a rare opportunity to hand over the ‘Man of the Match’ award live in front of millions of cricket fans, in any one of the Chennai Super Kings game.

    An all-expenses paid offer, Aircel intends to share this unique opportunity and experience with its new as well as existing subscribers (both prepaid and post-paid).

    All Aircel’s existing and new pre-paid subscribers can buy a connection and recharge it with Rs 100 or above to be eligible for participation to the contest. However, all its existing and new post-paid customers are automatically eligible to participate in this contest.

    Apart from the giving of the ‘Man of the Match’ award, the contest also offers eight lucky winners, an exciting chance to meet the Chennai Super Kings team to their city.

    Other interesting offers by Aircel for its valuable subscribers for IPL include: CSK players R. Ashwin, Suresh Raina, Ravindra Jadeja and Murali Vijay talk to Aircel subscribers via Celeb Chat, a specially developed CSK app with updated information on the team, and a newly created Video Scorecard for an innovative presentation of scores along with videos of key events.

    Speaking at the occasion, Aircel CMO Anupam Vasudev said, “Aircel is proud to be associated with one of the most prestigious and successful cricket teams of the IPL – Chennai Super Kings. Our partnership with CSK aims to encourage cricket and provide a great platform for the new crop of talent to shape up into champions of future. Through our association with CSK, we offer our customers something ‘Extra’ like tickets, CSK merchandise and innovative consumer engagement programs along with the opportunity to witness and experience the best international cricket with some top ranking Indian and international players.”

    Tapping into the digital world to create buzz around CSK in the social media community, Aircel also launched the “Blogger Hunt” contest. The contest gives one winner a unique opportunity to travel with the Chennai Super Kings team for over 45 days wherein they would publish candid inside stories/content on the Aircel micro blogging site, on the Facebook and the Twitter page.