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Ten Sports to Telecast exclusive coverage of the Hong Kong International
Cricket Sixes
By Asghar Ali Mubarak
ISLAMABAD—The world’s richest
and most exciting cricket sixes tournament, The Hong Kong International
Cricket Sixes, takes place this weekend and Ten Sports has exclusive
coverage of all the action.
The twelfth edition of the event will see some of the best known names
in cricket take to the field at the Kowloon Cricket Club including
Pakistanis Imran Nazir and Yasir Arafat, Darren Gough and Dominic Cork
of England, South African Nicky Boje, West Indian Champions Trophy
representatives Carlton Baugh and Marlon Samuels .
Add to that the considerable talents of Indian Reetinder Sodhi, last
year's Player of the Tournament, and Sri Lankan Saman Jayantha, who won
the accolade in 2003, and all the ingredients are in place for another
explosive weekend of cricket.
Pakistan, Australia, West Indies, England, New Zealand Kiwis, South
Africa, Sri Lanka, India, and Hong Kong are the nine teams that will be
competing for the coveted trophy but before they are able to claim
victory the winning side will have to battle through two round robin
stages and then the knock out stages to reach the final.
And for the first time on Ten Sports the channel will have a female
commentator on its team. Kass Naidoo is South Africa’s first female
cricket commentator and she will be making her Ten Sports debut this
weekend at the Hong Kong Sixes.
Coverage of Day 1 & Day 2 begins at 1830 Hrs on Ten Sports on 11th &
12th November.
Only launched in April 2002, Taj TV’s Ten Sports is watched by more
viewers than any other sports channel in the sub-continent and is
available in nearly 50 million cable/ satellite households worldwide. In
just a short span of three years, Ten Sports has also become the world’s
biggest producers of cricket. The Channel already telecast cricket from
Sharjah, the West Indies, Pakistan, Sri Lanka and Morocco throughout the
Indian sub-continent and Asia, as well as in Europe and the Middle East.
Other cricket properties broadcast by Ten Sports in certain territories
include internationals from India, the World Cup 2003 and the ICC
Champions Trophy 2004.
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