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MUMBAI: Cashing in on India's victory in the Champions Trophy 2013 tournament, sports broadcaster Star Sports announced a special week-long episodic series - Champions Ka Champion.
Star Cricket will showcase five special half hour episodes every day starting Monday, 1 July from 8.00 pm onwards. Each episode will contain never-before seen footage of the Men in Blue as they engage in a candid chat about their lives, their careers, ups and downs and what made them hone themselves into match winning champions.
Every episode will get viewers up close and personal with Team India heroes like Shikhar Dhawan, Dinesh Karthik, Ravindra Jadeja, Rohit Sharma, Ravichandran Ashwin, Virat Kohli, Umesh Yadav, Bhuvneshwar Kumar and Ishant Sharma. The series culminates on Indian captain M S Dhoni?s birthday, July 5 with a special episode on the Captain himself and his journey as a leader over the years.
The first show to be aired on Monday, 1 July will be anchored by Ex-India star turned analyst, Navjot Singh Sidhu, wherein he takes viewers through a voyage of India?s finest through the entire tournament and how they went from strength to strength to finally emerge as Champions. This will be followed by episodes containing exclusive chat-ups with Shikhar Dhawan (2 July) and Dinesh Karthik (3 July). The fouth episode will carry interviews with other Team India stars like Ravindra Jadeja, Rohit Sharma, R Ashwin, Virat Kohli, Umesh Yadav, Bhuvneshwar Kumar and Ishant Sharma followed by a special episode on the captain, M S Dhoni (5 July).
Each episode will touch upon the lives of the players, their inner thoughts, match preparations, dressing room banter and other interesting stories which will show these superstars in a new light for the Indian sports fan.
Cricket fans will get to watch a candid Shikhar Dhawan opening up on his personal life, his marriage and his family and how all this has helped shape him as an individual and as a cricketer. Dhawan also speaks about his moustache, his bonding with Dhoni and Jadeja, how he almost quit cricket once and many such fascinating insights.
India?s comeback hero, Dinesh Karthik will open up about life after he was dropped from the Indian team and how he worked his way back into the national side.
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