October , 2006
NOT QUITE CRICKET
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When Ian Chappel announces that Jerome Taylor has just become the first West Indian to get a hattrick in One Day Internationals, you want to hear him complete what he has to say, and not to an animated tiger doing his noisy jig on one corner of the tv screen. But that's what we were treated to on Wednesday's match in the Champions Trophy. When it's been 7 months since his last century and Sachin Tendulkar is helping himself to a comeback hundred after missing 14 matches, you'd like to see as many close-ups of his face and not have to cope with a banner ad across his face. But that's what we had live with in the recently concluded DLF Cup in Kuala Lumpur. And you certainly wouldn't want an ad break before 6 balls are bowled. But that's precisely what happened during a tense Stuart Clarke....
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H R Venkatesh is News Editor-Anchor at CNN-IBN. He has just returned from the University of Oxford where he completed an M Sc in Contemporary India as a Shell-Chevening Scholar. He has 9 years’ experience in TV news having worked in several positions. He began as a Business Correspondent at CNBC India in Mumbai where he was asked to report on – hold your breath – the cement, steel and shipping industries. Numbed by two years as an ‘old economy’ reporter, he moved to cover sport at Headlines Today in Delhi. As cricket correspondent he travelled with the Indian cricket team for two years. Highlights from this stint include watching Sachin Tendulkar complete his 10,000th test run, interviewing Sourav Ganguly 18 times and Shane Warne at least 15 times (not so much due to his persistence as to the fact that the duo were contractually bound to do the interviews), and watching Australia conquer the final frontier. Numbed yet again, by the realization that the best way to appreciate sport is to NOT report on it, he moved towards covering politics. Along the way, he began presenting news and moved to CNN-IBN as it was preparing to launch in 2005. He spent the next few years anchoring news & special shows, and occasionally foraying into the field, before taking a break to study. Although nobody’s given him a prize for it, he is proud to have been the first Indian to present a podcast – the News Junkie Podcast – online.
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