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Former India coach John Wright on commentary team

Chennai, Sep 13 (UNI) Set MAX has lined up a 'galaxy' of cricket stars, including former Team India coach John Wright for its commentary team for the forthcoming Champions Trophy to be held from October 7 to November 5 in India.

Talking to reporters here today, Set India Private Limited Executive Vice-President and Business Head-MAX Albert Almeida said as part of its presentation of the live cricketing action, Max's commentary team would be spearheaded by Tony Greig, Geoffrey Boycott, Navjot Singh Sidhu, Ian Chappel, Barry Richards, Sanjay Manjrekar, Arun Lal and Donna symonds.

Wright will be attracting attention in the commentator's box, having penned some interesting episodes during his stint as the coach of Team India in his book.

''This time around we also have the affable Kiwi, John Wright, who will add that special insider touch'', he said.

''For the first time ever, viewers who prefer to watch cricket in Hindi will be able to enjoy a world-class Hindi feed on SAB channel.

SAB will show six key matches in Hindi -- the three India matches, the semi finals and the final'', he said.

The Hindi commentators for the matches on SAB would include Atul Wassan, Maninder Singh, Saba Karim and Nikhil Chopra.

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Iran, climate on agenda for Blair and China's Wen

LONDON, Sep 13 (Reuters) Iran's nuclear ambitions and the looming humanitarian crisis in Sudan will be among topics iscussed by Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao and Prime Minister Tony Blair when they meet in Britain today. Wen, arriving fresh from an EU-Asia summit in Helsinki, will also talk about trade and investment opportunities with Blair, officials said. Britain is China's biggest European Union investor and its third-biggest trade partner within the bloc. The Chinese.....

S Korean town expects IOC support in sprawl-cut plan

SEOUL, Sep 13 (Reuters) The South Korean town campaigning to host the 2014 Winter Olympics expects the IOC to back its plan to make the Games more centralised by slashing the number of locations it will hold events from five to two. Pyeongchang, a rustic town in mountainous Kangwon Province on the east of the peninsula, is bidding again to host the Winter Olympics after narrowly losing out to Vancouver, Canada, to hold to.....

UTI Mutual Fund launches Wealth Builder Fund

Bangalore, Sept 13: UTI Mutual Fund announced the launch of a new scheme 'UTI Wealth Builder Fund' a close ended equity scheme with a maturity period of five years with automatic conversion into an open-ended scheme upon maturity.Speaking to media persons fund manager Harsha Upadhyaya said the units which were on sale could be bought till October 11.The objective of the scheme is to achieve long term capital appreciation by investing predominantly in a diversified portfolio of.....
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