Showing posts with label Commonwealth Games. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Commonwealth Games. Show all posts
India's Commonwealth Games to battle cricket for viewers
Friday, June 4, 2010
Commonwealth Games in October are set to compete next to India's obsession with cricket, if a high-profile home series against Australia is happening as planned.
A Ricky Ponting man is due to tour India in September-October while the four years games will take place in New Delhi October 3 to 14.
An official from the Indian Cricket Board (BCCI) said details of the trip, which is part of the International Cricket Council's Future Tours Programme, was intended with Cricket Australia.
"We have asked Australia to play two Tests and three one-day internationals rather than a series of seven one-dayers," said BCCI's chief organizational officer Ratnakar Shetty told AFP.
Australia, arriving in late September and must return by 31 October, when they begin a home series of Twenty20 and one day matches next to Sri Lanka.
The trip, when finished, are sure to further annoy the Indian Olympic officials, already seething at BCCI's decision not to send men and women cricket team to Asian Games in China in November.
"The BCCI does not contribute because there is money to be made on the Asian Games," said Indian Olympic Association President Suresh Kalmadi, head of the Commonwealth Games organizing committee.
"They think only about money. I'm glad cricket is not a part of the Commonwealth Games."
Although New Delhi is unlikely to find in Australia's route, millions of TV viewers to be glued to the cricket when the sports competition are on.
Cricket has so many followers in India, the organizers of the hockey World Cup in New Delhi in March advanced tournament with a week, so it would not conflict with the Indian Premier League.
Cricket, a non-Olympic sport, was last seen on a large multi-sport happening in the 1998 Commonwealth Games in Kuala Lumpur, but was dropped for the next two editions in England and Australia.
Queen’s Baton Relay To Prepare For Commonwealth Games
Wednesday, May 19, 2010
With the Commonwealth Games inching towards his date with India for the first function in Delhi on October 3, must pre-game advertising fashion - Queen's Baton Relay (Qbr) - into the country from neighboring Pakistan on the Wagah border 25 June.
The Qbr starting the crucial 100-day India leg will be traversing some 20,000 km, covering almost all states and territories union, according to Lt Gen Raj Kadyan, Additional Director Qbr.
Qbr launched by the Queen at Buckingham Palace on 29 October last year with the participation of Indian President Pratibha Patil, and began his journey covering 1,90,000 km journey to all
71 Commonwealth nations to mobilize public interest and create awareness.
During the opening of the Commonwealth Games 2010 Delhi in October three, it would end batonbearer hand on the baton back to Her Majesty or Her representative, the Queen's message, which was placed on the baton about 11 months ago, would be read aloud, official opeing game.
Let Gen Raj Kadyan said thesoil taken from different parts of the country and physically glued to voice their. Baton Packed with the latest technology and the usual Queen's message is laser-ETEC in miniature in a gold foil placed in a clear casing.
Baton captures the surrounding sights and sounds, and have a system with LED lights that change color to match the color of the flag of the host country, he explained.
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