* Kapil Dev, Mohinder Amarnath, Madan Lal, Kirti Azad, Sunil Walson, Balwinder Sandhu, reminisce on the power and the glory of the ’83 World Cup win and more
* Cricket Anthem â€?Go India Go’ launched
BANGALORE: Radio One, through its show â€?Play Your Music Day’, is featuring interviews of cricketers from the 1983 Cricket World Cup, throughout the day today, Friday, the 18th of February. The entire day will be interspersed with interviews of champion Indian cricketers like Kapil Dev, Mohinder Amarnath, Madan Lal, Kirti Azad, Sunil Walson and Balwinder Sandhu from the World Cup winning team, and current star Robin Uthappa, along with singer Jagjit Singh The interviews will be laced with reminiscences of the world cup winning campaign, other anecdotes and cricketing matters, laced, of course, with the favourite songs of the cricketers. Winners from amongst listeners, selected through cricket-based contests, are being picked on every show, and will go live on air.
Radio One is playing out this strong bouquet of cricket-laced programming throughout its 7-city network of Mumbai, Delhi, Chennai, Bangalore, Kolkata, Pune and Ahmedabad.
The cricketers, in their interviews, will share the nail-biting, never-wracking moments that created history. The breakfast show features interviews with Kapil Dev and Jagjit Singh, while the mid-morning show has the gritty Kirti Azad and Madan Lal, followed by Sunil Valson, Balwinder Sandhu, cricketers in their interviews will share those nail biting and nerve wrecking moments that created history. Starting with the breakfast show which will feature interviews with Kapil Dev and Jagjit Singh, the mid-morning show will feature Kirti Azad and Madan Lal, followed by Sunil Valson, Balwinder Sandhu, Robin Uthappa and Mohinder Amarnath in the afternoon, evening and night shows.
Rishi Kishnani, Programming Head, Radio One Mumbai, told RadioAndMusic.com, We have given a cricket flavour to our most popular property, Play Your Music Day, in keeping with the predominant mood at the onset of the biggest cricketing extravaganza. Play Your Music Day normally plays out on Wednesdays, but considering that the World Cup 2011 was inaugurated only yesterday, and the first match starts tomorrow, Saturday, we shifted this Cricket-special Play Your Music Day to today. We have also launched our cricket anthem sung by Shaan and Kailash Kher, written by Swanand Kirkire and composed by Leslie Lewis, earlier this week. All these initiatives are our way of becoming one with our listeners and cricket-crazy fans of India and cheering for the Indian team….
Radio One will also be cheering India with their Cricket Anthem: Go India Go… sung by Shaan and Kailash Kher.