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  • Watch Sachin Tendulkar and Vinod Kambli celebrate Friendship Day with ‘Play with Friends’ live on Sachin Saga Cricket Champions

    Watch Sachin Tendulkar and Vinod Kambli celebrate Friendship Day with ‘Play with Friends’ live on Sachin Saga Cricket Champions

    MUMBAI: JetSynthesys’ Sachin Saga Cricket Champions, one of India’s most popular cricket-based mobile games, announced the launch of its new LIVE multiplayer feature ‘Play with Friends’ today. Celebrating Friendship Day, Sachin Tendulkar and Vinod Kambli relived their childhood memories of playing cricket together by going head-to-head in ‘Play with Friends’.

    Sachin Saga’s ‘Play With Friends’ feature allows gamers to play with their team roster or choose their favourite international team for an exciting match up with their friends. Players can invite their friends around the globe to join a live game, complete exciting weekly challenges, and compete in head-to-head matches for special rewards. Best players in the game, who top the Friendship Weekly Challenges, also stand a chance to play against the Master Blaster himself on a special fan telecasted live event.

    Speaking about Sachin Saga’s ‘Play with Friends’, Rajan Navani, Vice Chairman & Managing Director, JetSynthesys said, “Today, digital platforms are bringing fans closer to their favourite sports resulting in the growing popularity of sports based online games. With ‘Play with Friends’, Sachin Saga will enable millions of our players to connect with friends all over the world for a game of fun-filled cricket. With the release of this live friendly multiplayer feature, we aim to give cricket lovers who share their love for the sport an opportunity to play the game beyond borders.”

    Sachin Tendulkar said, “Sachin Saga always brings back fond cricketing memories. Vinod and I have grown up playing cricket together. With the launch of ‘Play with Friends’ it was fun to challenge each other in this live multiplayer mode. We appreciate the success of Sachin Saga and Sachin Saga VR and hope the new 'Play with Friends' will resonate with cricket fans and connect gamers worldwide.”

    Launched on 7th December 2017 by Sachin Tendulkar, the game gave fans an opportunity to relive the legend’s career by stepping into his shoes. With over 10 million downloads on the game, Sachin Saga has grown to become one of the top-most downloaded games. The game’s Virtual Reality version, Sachin Saga VR, went live earlier this year and is India’s first multiplayer VR cricket mobile game.

  • News Channels continue their innovations for World Cup

    News Channels continue their innovations for World Cup

    MUMBAI: When India and Pakistan face each other on the Cricket ground, it’s bigger than just a game. With emotions running high in two neighboring sides of the border for the World Cup face-off between India & Pakistan, NewsX and India News will join hands with PTV Sports and DIN News of Pakistan to present ‘War of the Worlds-Indo-Pak Clash’ and ‘India Mange Cup’ respectively, that will bring to the viewers extensive coverage around the Indo-Pak matches in the World Cup 2015.

     

    Continuing with its objective of delivering quality content, iTV Network brings exclusive shows under this association. The channels will telecast multiple joint shows where panellists from both nations will discuss and analyze the teams, their performances and the likely outcome of the matches. The shows will also take a closer look at the history of the World Cup matches played between India and Pakistan. The channels together will conduct build-up shows on 13 and 14 February before the nations’ first face-off in World cup on 15 February. The special show will also analyse the impact index of the teams and the players by using Wisden Wizard Impact Index by Wisden India.

     

    The array of special programming on the channels will include:

     

    NewsX:

     

    ·         On 13 & 14 February, Preview show before the epic battle between India Pakistan which will reminisce India’s unbeaten record against Pakistan in World Cup matches. The show will also compare both the teams using the Wisden Wizard Impact.

     

    ·         On 15 February @ 7.30am, a half an hour pre-match show that will analyse the likely outcome of the match and a post-match review show to dissect the match from every aspect.

     

    The guest panel will include many big names from India and Pakistan Cricket and Journalism fraternity like Anshuman Gaiekwad, Ayaz Memon, Vinod Kambli, Mohsin Khan, Sarfraz Nawaz, Jonty Rhodes etc.

     

    India News:

     

    ·         On 14 February: A preview show (7pm-10pm) along with debates between the players of respective teams.

     

    ·         On 15 February:  Pre-match special (at 8am) and post-match special, culminating into a mega show at 8pm in the evening that will review the match from all aspects.

     

    The guest panel on the channel will include dignitaries and legendary names from India & Pakistan, such as  Vinod Kambli, Nayan Mongia, Ritender Sodhi, Rajkumar Sharma (Coach, Virat Kohli) & Salim Malik (DIN News).

     

    In addition to these, the channel will also telecast a special show if India & Pakistan fight each other in the knockouts and a mega preview show before the Grand Finale.

     

    Speaking on this partnership, NewsX editor-in-chief Rahul Shivshankar said, “India & Pakistan matches have always creating a huge stir in both of our nations. Catching up with this rising excitement around the world cup face-off between the nations, we are glad to partner with PTV Sports, Pakistan and bring to the viewers a unique line-up of programming never seen before in World Cup. I am confident that this association will enhance our World Cup coverage and will bring the best to our viewers.”

     

    India News editor-in-chief Deepak Chaurasia added, “India-Pakistan cricket matches are like a treat for the cricket lovers of two nations. While all other channels will be busy highlighting reactions from India, we at India News will make one step further by getting coverage direct from the other side of the border. Association with DIN News will certainly add an edge to our programming.”

  • Zee launches cricket website

    Zee launches cricket website

    NEW DELHI: Even as the Indian Eleven left for the West Indies for the World Cup, the Zee network has launched a cricket website, www.zeecric.com, to encash on the huge interest that the international tourney is bound to create’

    The site was launched by former cricket stars Maninder Singh, Nikhil Chopra and Vinod Kambli at the Ferozeshah Cricket Ground in the capital. Zaheer Abbas, Steve Waugh, Maninder Singh, Nikhil Chopra and Vinod Kambli are among some regular contributors to various columns on the web site.

     
    The commencement of the biggest Cricket event will see live coverage of multiple matches embellished with graphs, manhattans, wagon wheels, ball-by-ball commentary and a live scorecard on the site. Readers can relive the highlights through excerpts from the live commentary on the site.

    Moving a step further from recording the action, the panel of expert columnists discuss and dissect the nuances of the game.

     
    The website will also carry all records at a dedicated space called Number Game.