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Cricket fever: MSN India pads up for a virtual
game
7 March 2007: The cricket fever is on. And,
MSN India is all padded up for the big game. MSN
India is luring the cricket crazy public with its
full coverage of the ICC Cricket World Cup 2007 on
its personal Cricket Channel. The channel is
accessible on the internet and on WAP-supported
mobile phones.
On the menu is all the action from the Caribbean.
MSN has lined up top world cup stories, exclusive
columns from Ricky Ponting, Stephen Fleming,
Graeme Smith, Mahela Jayawardene, the schedule,
team profiles, pitch reports, photo galleries,
controversies, match previews, live scorecards,
slideshows and an audio update of all the action,
said a report.
Presenting the World Cup through an exclusive web
channel, MSN India is also bringing out a
downloadable Windows Mobile World Cup application
where users with Windows Mobile platform phones
can load the application to their phones and get
live updates on the matches as it happens on GPRS
without having to send an SMS every time, the
report added.
In addition to all these, MSN has also launched
the Vista World Cup Sidebar Gadget catering to
Windows Vista Users which will provide constant
live score updates and feedback on their very own
desktop, while the WAP Portal lets users can keep
track of all the details of every match on their
mobile phone, it added.
To add to the fun is MSN Clicket, explained as
cricket played with a mouse. This is a predict and
win game where users can choose their players for
each match and earn points based on their accuracy
of playing team predictions. Further,
Cricket-Live, an interactive multi player game
comes as a bonus.
Meanwhile, in the Caribbean where al the action is
underway, the Indian cricket team arrived in
Port-of-Spain early on Tuesday morning to play
their three group matches against Bangladesh,
Bermuda and Sri Lanka. India will begin its WC
campaign on March 17 with a match against minnows
Bangladesh. |
