da dobrowin： Having telecast the ARY Gold Cup in Sharjah recently, Sony MAX is nowplanning a series between left and right handers involving playersfrom five different countries
28-Apr-2001Having telecast the ARY Gold Cup in Sharjah recently, Sony MAX is nowplanning a series between left and right handers involving playersfrom five different countries. Kacon Sethi, executive vice-presidentand general manager of Sony Max said, “For the first time in theworld, MAX will be conducting a series of three one-day internationalcricket matches between a team of lefties and righties.”On the commercial success of the channel after the Sharjah triseries,Sethi said, “we earned around Rs 15 crore without India while we mighthave earned about Rs 30 crore with India as the third team.”Besides conducting the three-match series between lefties andrighties, Sethi said the channel will also telecast live India’s tourof Sri Lanka where the teams will play three Test matches and atriangular series involving India, Sri Lanka and New Zealand inAugust-September this year.The channel has also got exclusive rights for the Zimbabwe and Englandtours of Bangladesh. The Zimbabwe tour of Sri Lanka comprising threeTest matches followed by a triangular one-day series between SriLanka, West Indies and Zimbabwe will also be shown live early nextyear, Sethi said.Other tournaments to be telecast by the channel include Pakistan’stour of Bangladesh and West Indies tour of Sri Lanka early next year,she added.The matches between lefties and righties will be played on May three,five and six at the Wankhede stadium in Mumbai, she said and addedthat all the matches will be played under flood lights and will startat 3 p.m on all these days.The teams: Lefthanders (from): Saurav Ganguly, Sanath Jayasuriya,Chris Harris, Roger Twose, Robin Singh, Russel Arnold, HashanTillakaratne, Yuvraj Singh, Chaminda Vaas, Sunil Joshi, Nuwan Zoysa,Zaheer Khan and Kumara Sangakkara.Righthanders (from): Sachin Tendulkar, Rahul Dravid, V V S Laxman,Nathan Astle, Craig McMillan, Aravinda De Silva, Adam Bacher, JavagalSrinath, Paul Reiffel, Marvan Atapattu, Romesh Kaluwitharana,Harbhajan Singh and Nikhil Chopra.