It was a super Sunday yesterday. Roger Federer took on Rafael Nadal for
the third successive final between the two at Wimbledon, attempting to
become the first man since 19th century to win six Wimbledon titles in
a row and equal Bjorn Borg's record of 41 wins at the venue. The big
boys of Formula One stepped on the gas at Silverstone. And Mahendra
Dhoni and his team clashed against Sri Lanka in the finals of the Asia
Cup at Karachi. Of course, no Indian figured in the clashes and races at Wimbledon and Silverstone and in the match they were involved, they failed to beat the Lankans. Nevertheless the super Sunday turned out to be a great day for us as India lifted the world championship trophy in Sports-Viewing registering highest viewership of sporting contests across the world. A record seven million Indians sat glued in front of their television sets between 3.30 PM and 10 PM on Sunday evening using their remotes furiously to switch between ESPN, Star Sports and Star Cricket, the three channels telecasting the sports events at Wimbledon, Silverstone and Karachi respectively, narrowly beating United States which recorded 6.7 million combined views of all sporting contests telecast on US channels.
OMG! OMG! OMG! Its the 25th anniversary of 25th of June, the holiest of
the holy days in the history of modern India and I've to go to work.
How shameful is that! How d...
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