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Mumbai: Miditech's 'Cricket Star' is blazing into its 7th week
of the 20:20 series. The new finds will face the Reebok XI team
on Tuesday, Feb 20th at MIG Club, Bandra. The Reebok XI are no ordinary
team. In fact, they include stalwarts like Harbhajan Singh, Ajit
Agarkar, Munaf Patel and Robin Uthappa.
Says Nikhil Alva, C.E.O, Miditech, "At each stage the competition
is getting tougher, but this round is the real test for the budding
cricketers. It would be a real eye opener and help the 'aam aadmi'
to decide who India's first 'Cricket Star' should be! ".
The show has a run of 11 weeks, with tri-weekly episodes on Zee
Sports and DD National and a weekly episode on Zee TV. While former
captains and cricketing icons Kapil Dev and Saurav Ganguly are judging
the players, snazzy Ajay Jadeja is shining as the expert analyst.
The show has been gaining popularity ever since thousands of aspirants
auditioned during the nationwide screening for 'Cricket Star'. 23
participants made it to the final round and found a place in the
Cricket Star Academy, Mumbai. Spread over 10 weeks, the training
process has seen an exclusive panel including stalwarts like Robin
Singh, Praveen Amre, Abey Kuruvilla and Zubin Bharucha, work on
these aspiring cricketers whose life at the Academy is action-packed
and includes intense daily training, customized cricketing tests
and 'Master Classes', conducted by former players as famous as Geoffrey
Boycott, Monty Panesar, Mahela Jayawardene, V.V.S. Laxman and Dilip
Vengsarkar.
At the end of an intense and grueling 11 weeks and 33 episodes,
India's first Cricket Star will be selected. The take away? An all
expenses paid one-year contract with the reputed Leicestershire
County Cricket Club besides other cash prizes.
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