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Willow.TV and reliance once again partnered in bringing first test match free for US cricket fans. If you buy live streaming package of $25 from Willow.TV then you can redeem those 25$ towards your reliance calling card which makes 1st test match free.

>Buy Willow.TV event for $25
>Log In to your reliance account and use coupon of $25 from Willow.TV
>Make $25 worth of calls to India
>Enjoy free test match of India vs Australia

Here are the details from willow.tv:

Reliance Global Call coupon and FREE First Test Match of Australia tour of India 2008 - Buy a Reliance Global Call coupon worth 25 dollars, and get live video streaming and on demand highlights of the First test match of the Australia tour of India 2008 from 9th Oct at Bangalore, on Willow.tv for FREE. This coupon can be used to recharge your Reliance India Call account with 25 dollars
Post purchase, the coupon will show up in your My Packages section, which can also be accessed anytime you visit www.willow.tv and log in using your Willow Id
To redeem your purchased Reliance India Call coupon, do the following
1. Visit www.relianceindiacall.com and login using your Reliance India Call Primary number and PIN
2. Click on the Balance and Recharge link in the top right section
3. In the payment page, put in the coupon code in the Promotional Code section
4. It could take a few hours for your account balance to be updated

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The online viewing of cricket matches has picked up in popularity as most cricket fans outside of India have good access to quality internet but not TV.

The four cricket test match series between Australia and India starts on October 9' 2008 and ends in November' 10' 2008.

Here is quick schedule :

> 1st Test, Bangalore - Karnataka ,Oct 9 - Oct 13
> 2nd Test, Mohali - Chandigarh, Oct 17 - Oct 21
> 3rd Test, Delhi, Oct 29 - Nov 2
> 4th Test, Nagpur, Nov 6 - Nov 10

Watching Dish Network's Zee Sports online

This option is best for people who want to watch cricket in the office.

> Add ZeeSports to channel list

If you reside in US and have TV with Dish network then you can watch the Oct/Nov test series series on Zee Sports Americas in North America for $19.99 per month . Only recently (a year ago probably) Zee Sports introduced sports channel on Dish Network which broadcasts all cricket matches that are played only in India.

Here are details from Dish Network :

ZEE SPORTS AMERICA - The First and Most Complete South Asian Sports Channel for less than $1 a day! Get the Annual package for $249.99 and save nearly $90

The following live cricket series are scheduled to be shown on Zee Sports America for 2008.

England vs. New Zealand – May 2008

England vs. South Africa – July 2008

India vs. Australia – October 2008

India vs. England – November 2008

In addition to cricket, Zee Sports America brings Indian club and International football, tennis,
and golf!

To add Zee Sports America to your DISH Network services call 1.888.723.0188 today!

> Watching ZeeSports TV Channel Online

Two online options are available 1) Slingbox, 2) Cyberlinklive and Orb

1) Slingbox is like taking TV with you anywhere as long as you have internet connection on your laptop.

Here is how you set up Slingbox :



2) Cyberlinklive and Orb -- If you have TV Tuner card in your PC and watches TV on PC then you can watch your PC TV any where in the world with Cyberlinklive and Orb.

Watching Australia vs. India test series online

If you are not able to subscribe to TV channels as above then live streaming sites are the next option.

If you are looking for live streaming sites for upcoming Australia in India 2008 test matches series, this is the post I'll update regularly with all available options.

The popular one among them is Willow.TV . As of writing this post they have not updated their site with details. The following Willow.TV link takes you to the details when live streaming is available.



Sopcast and TVU Player are the other options but their legality is in question so use your judgement before accessing cricket links posted via Sopcast or any other P2P live streaming media sites.

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IMDb - the popular movie database has finally launched full-length movies and and a great selection of full-length TV episodes directly on their site for free. The free streaming content available on IMDb is coming from Hulu, CBS, Sony, and independent filmmakers.

Being popular with movie ratings the streaming of free movies will be a instant hit. The updates/additions to the free database is what to be seen from IMDb in coming days.

Here is the free videos link

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Live streaming sites:

Here are few options for those who want to watch summer Olympics 2008 on their PCs. NBAOlympics has a video section on their site for all US visitors to watch the games live or on demand. YouTube "Olympics" channel is available to more than 60 countries including India.



List of all streaming options:

US:

NBC
itsgametime.tv
Watch Olympics
TVTonic
http://www.cctvolympics.com/
COX

77 territories, including South Korea, India and Nigeria
YOUTUBE


UK:

BBC

Australia:
Yahoo

Canada:
CBC

P2P streaming info :

SopCast

Sopcast download Download this sopcast , Install and log in as anonymous and you will find atleast one channel streaming the game on game day.Have patience the buffering takes a while.

If you are using Mozilla FireFox (sopcast doesn't work in Firefox), use Internet Explorer browser to view the match

If you can't see sopcast player in the site, then you need to download and install sopcast.
AFTER STARTING SOPCAST PLAYER, WAIT TILL THE BUFFERING IS DONE.

TVU Player

Click me for TVU player download

After downloading and installing TVU player browse through the channels and you will sure find one channel that has 'Olympics'.

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Its Yahoo now joining the cricket live streaming market niche besides willow.tv and cricinfo.com. Watching matches on TV Channels may not be a big deal for cricket popular nations like subcontinent, UK and Australia but for North America it always has been struggle for the cricket fans to find the TV channels or live streaming options for each series.

Willow.TV has been popular and consistent in live streaming serving for so many years probably from year 2000 as far as I know. Limitation - Willow.tv only works on a PC and Internet Explorer only. Dish Network or Direct TV sometimes based on popularity of series shows these as pay-per-view (PPV) events. DishNetwork's Zee sports Americas shows only matches played by India in India.

Looks like Yahoo wants to take advantage of this situation and as its video syndication head --Satish Menon-- announced Yahoo will be putting videos of live cricket match clippings soon.

See the video of this talk from newteevee crew that interviewed Yahoo's Satish Menon.

We will have a live scorecard with ball-by-ball commentary and when there is a significant event such as a 4 or 6 or somebody getting out, then, the video clip of that even (1 minute or less) will show up next to that event description in the ball-by-ball commentary.

-- writes Newteevee

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Does Dhoni's captaincy gets another tri-series cup for India ? Or Bowling sharp Pakistan clean bowls two weakened bowling sides of India and Bangladesh ? Minnows are no more -- can team Bangladesh hit back at two great class teams ?

Here are few options available for Tri-series (India, Pakistna and Bangladesh matches) live streaming from Willow.TV

Willow.TV package for $9.99

To watch Bangladesh, India, Pakistan live streaming from willow.tv website you will need to have a broadband connection, which can be either a DSL or High-Speed Cable Internet connection. Willow.TV warns that the streaming may not work with slow dial up connections

Package which is available for $9.99 for all 4 games includes Live Video Streaming, On-Demand Replays, Video Scorecards and Commentary.

Details are available in this link.

Tri-Nation Tournament (India v Pakistan v Bangladesh), June 2008
Please note:
All timings are listed in your local Timezone. Make sure that your computers Clock and Timezone settings are accurate.
These schedules are subject to change at short notice. Please revisit the service as close as possible to the broadcast time for the most accurate information.
Tri-Nation Tournament (Bangladesh, India and Pakistan in Bangladesh), 2008
Sun Jun 8 03:30 CDT 2008 1st ODI Bangladesh v Pakistan. Shere Bangla National Stadium. Mirpur Click to watch:
(LIVE Video)
8 Jun 2008 Reserve Day
Tue Jun 10 03:30 CDT 2008 2nd ODI India v Pakistan. Shere Bangla National Stadium, Mirpur
10 Jun 2008 Reserve Day
Thu Jun 12 03:30 CDT 2008 3rd ODI Bangladesh v India. Shere Bangla National Stadium, Mirpur
12 Jun 2008 Reserve Day
Sat Jun 14 03:30 CDT 2008 Final - TBC v TBC
14 Jun 2008 Reserve Day

If you have questions of how to purchase the package, The below FAQ from Willow.TV will help.

Free for Reliance India customers

How to avail free offer from Willow.tv using Reliance India call

Reliance India Call and FREE Tri Nation ODI package -- Reliance India Call and FREE Tri Nation ODI package - Buy a Reliance India Call coupon worth 25 dollars, and get live video streaming and on demand replays of the Tri Nation ODI series between India, Pakistan and Bangladesh starting June 8th on Willow.tv for FREE. This coupon can be used to recharge your Reliance India Call account by $25
Post purchase, the coupon will show up in your My Packages section, which can also be accessed anytime you visit www.willow.tv and log in using your Willow Id
To redeem your purchased Reliance India Call coupon, do the following
1. Visit www.relianceindiacall.com and login using your Reliance India Call Primary number and PIN
2. Click on the Balance and Recharge link in the top right section
3. In the payment page, put in the coupon code in the Promotional Code section
4. It could take a few hours for your account balance to be updated

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Media and IPL are still fighting over media restrictions on covering inaugural IPL tournament starting from April 18' 2008. Willow TV, Inc. established in year 2002 is the cricket fans popular live Internet video streaming provider in North America (including the United States and Canada), Mexico, Central and South America and the Caribbean.Willow TV bagged the telecast rights for IPL tournament for next five years from World Sport Group (WSG). The five-year deal includes distribution rights of IPL on television, radio, broadband and internet.

Here are few options available for IPL live streaming from Willow.TV

Willow.TV package for $59

To watch IPL live streaming from willow.tv website you will need to have a broadband connection, which can be either a DSL or High-Speed Cable Internet connection. Willow.TV warns that the streaming may not work with slow dial up connections

Package which is available for $59 for all 59 games includes Live Video Streaming, On-Demand Replays, Video Scorecards and Commentary.

Details are available in this link.

Indian Premier League All Access Pass - Live video streaming, On Demand Replays of all 59 games of the DLF Indian Premier Leage Buy Live Video and Replays (US $59)

If you have questions of how to purchase the package, The below FAQ from Willow.TV will help.

Free Mobile Video streaming

Willow TV writes on their website "Exclusive Partner Offers
Get access to IPL 2008 on signing up with our partners Reliance India Call & BigFlicks". The link takes you to the page that shows how to get IPL coverage on a cell phone. The service is free but cell phone companies may charge a data fee if its nort of your monthly package with phone company. The phones supported list is available from here. To view the IPL matches a mobile device client is to be downloaded from here. Once installed launch cricket and you will be able to access free coverage of IPL. The screenshots (left image) from Willow.TV show Mobile video coverage. How good is the quality ? I haven't tried myself and once matches start i'll post an update of my free mobile video streaming or coverage experience from willow.TV.

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Quick preview of 2nd test match

SA made a clean bowling sweep making India loose 10 wickets for mere 76 runs and finally innings-and-90-run victory. Bhajji feels it is not just pitch which is red caused that paltry first innings score though Indan captain had a differnt view. If pitch is greener then Kumble who won the toss should have opten for bowling rather than batting on a seamers pitch. Dale Steyn who is star in the first innings with five wicket claim believes India didnt have any game strategy once they start losing wickets. Except for Ganguly who put some resistance in 2nd innings, all the paper stars who raked in big money in IPL made India lose the test match.

Third test match preview

The biggies Waseem Jaffer, Dravid, Dhoni & VVS Laxman back to back failures will add trouble in 3nd test match at Kanpur. Only hope is changes made to squad - Ishant and Munaf are called back into the team to stress the importance of bowlers. Kumble injury puts Powar as replacement. Bajji and spinners have to do their extra best to tie the test series. Overall I feel with second test win it is difficult for India to recover from the loss in 3rd test.

Streaming options :

-> ZeeSports is telecasting live this series in North America in channel 576.

here is the link

-> Willow.TV is having India vs South Africa package for $29.99 including bonus package of ICL matches.

Link is here

-> CricketOn.TV is streaming this match for $20

3rd Test India v South Africa April 10, 2008 11:30 PM
$20.00

Link is here

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Quick preview of 1st test match

Sehwag is the star of first match with blazing triple century knock. He missed the great opportunity of beating Lara's record, he should have been bit patient as it is difficult to amass such runs again. Its great accomplishment for a player who is struggling for form and the man made it to record books with quick 300 off 270 balls. First test that ended in draw demonstrated what a batting pitch scores look like. Dravid joined the premier 10,000 runs club and the 25th test hundred. The credit is also to be given to RSA batsman who frustrated the easily frustrated Sreesanth with back to back boundaries from Smith's bat. Bowlers on two sides struggled to contain both runs and wickets.

Second test match preview

The middle order - Tendulkar, Ganguly & VVS Laxman failing will add trouble in 2nd test match at Ahmedabad. Bajji's five wicket haul is impressive and if he gets support from other bowlers India can be a better bowling side. The worrying factor for India is injured Tendulkar who is going to miss the second test. Kaif will be replacing Tendulkar after almost two years. Kaif who had been performing well in domestic matches is a right selection both in fielding and batting departments. Historically we have seen Sehwag cool down after a big knock like the one at first test match and this is advantageous to RSA.

Streaming options :

-> ZeeSports is telecasting live this series in North America in channel 576.

here is the link

-> Willow.TV is having India vs South Africa package for $29.99 including bonus package of ICL matches.

Link is here

-> CricketOn.TV is streaming this match for $20

2nd Test India v South Africa April 2, 2008 11:30 PM
$20.00

Link is here

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India the commonwealth 2008 champions plays three tests against South Africa India in March/April of 2008. After IPL biddings some of the test players like Waseem Jafeer for instance who got the lowest bid is naturally unhappy and this I believe will have some cascading effect to all India test players effecting their performance in the test matches. Instead of discussing whether IPL concept works , it is high time to make sure international games wont be effected because of new form of the game - IPL

India v South Africa US schedule

1st Test India v South Africa March 25, 2008 11:00 PM
2nd Test India v South Africa April 2, 2008 11:30 PM
3rd Test India v South Africa April 10, 2008 11:30 PM

Here are some of live streaming options -

Willow TV ($29.99 package)

South Africa tour of India 2008. Bonus ICL 2020 - Live video streaming, On demand highlights and replays, interactive highlights of the 3 test matches of the South Africa tour of India. BONUS All matches of the ICL Twenty20 tournament

CricketOn TV ($35.00 package)

India v South Africa
Buy All Matches (Early Bird Offer):

$35.00
1st Test India v South Africa March 25, 2008 11:00 PM
$20.00
2nd Test India v South Africa April 2, 2008 11:30 PM
$20.00
3rd Test India v South Africa April 10, 2008 11:30 PM
$20.00

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2nd final of CB Series at Brisbane starts in -

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Critics call him "match looser" & Indian captain makes a post match comment that he is a "records man". In spite of all these the little man shouldered the 1st finals win responsibility when Indian top order is at its worse form. For Sachin Ramesh Tendulkar, this is a mission nicely accomplished in his 20 long year cricket career.This win gives mental edge over Aussies in 2nd final. Aussies in my opinion resorted to all tactics to take Tendlya out of the ground even throwing full length balls on his face but he contained his innings. The world champions, Australia is struggling both on bowling and batting fronts that too on their home ground as witnessed in CB series so far.

Both India and Sri Lanka were not able to bank that "out of form" Australia team opportunity so far except that India was able to do it in 1st final. First talk about Aussies bowling, Brett Lee & Johnson are only notable ones with occasional help from Symmonds. As I noted in my previous post after the departure of McGrath and Warne, Aussies are in the process of look out for bowling successors. Batting wise Top order is totally inconsistent with Gilchrist coming off to a ground with heavy crowd cheering and leaving at a blink of eye to pavilion before crowd notices. Hayden & Symmonds throwing their wickets with reckless shots. Ponting searching for his batting form and is meticulously studied by teams for his wicket.

India on the other hand mainly depended on batting of Gautum Gambhir & Dhoni's patience in all of CB series. Tendulkar and Rohit Sharma was performing averagely in all the matches. Uthappa is the one man who needs some domestic cricket before he sets foot on international team again. We have too much of expectations from Yuvi and he did won one crucial match for India. All credit goes to India's bowling new finds Ishant and Praveen Kumar. Pathan except for the 1st final contributed consistently both with his bat and the ball. Haribhajan keeps pressure on Aussies team just by his sheer presence in the team.

Match Start Times :

US central time - March 3, 2008 at 9:15 PM
UK - March 4, 2008 at 3:15 AM
India - March 4 2008 at 8:30 AM

Watching Online or Live Streaming Sites :

1) Click here for "acricket" - 2nd final India v Australia March 3, 2008 09:00 PM [Note : This site works only in IE and you need Sopcast software downloaded to watch this game]

2) Click here for "BhejaFry" - 2nd final India v Australia March 3, 2008 09:00 PM [Note : This site works only in IE and you need Sopcast software downloaded to watch this game]

For full coverage of this CB series with all previous matches click here

Once match is completed I'll post highlights courtesy@youtube

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1st final starts in -

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India is better team than Sri Lanka in this series but not when compared with Australia. India just won one game against Australia in CB series i.e. 4th Match at Melbourne played on Feb 10, 2008 by 5 wickets. This makes Australia the defacto favorites in the 1st final game that will be played on March 2' 2008 at Sydney. Australia has its own share of batting form problems and only in last match Ponting made a revengeful century probably after he was sold for embrassing $400K in IPL. All other batsman including Gilchrist and Symmonds are out of form and not contributing to the scoreboard. Aussies bowling attack has been marvelous which saved them from all the matches in CB series.

India on the other hand is totally unpredictable both on batting and bowling. Ishanth Sharma was the only consistent bowler who fared well against both Aussies and Sri Lankans in the series. No wonder he was sold double the price of Ponting in IPL. Tendulkar regained his aggressive batting in last match with Sri Lanka. Gambhir is for batting as Ishant is for bowling. He already got couple of centuries in this series and he applies himself to the game with dedication which is missing from the rest of the players. Rohit sharma and Uthappa has to prove themselves to be on Indian squad in upcoming two finals.

If India can bowl well and at least two or three batsman makes some what average score then 1st final winner will be India.

Match Start Times :

US central time - March 1, 2008 at 9:15 PM
UK - March 2, 2008 at 3:15 AM
India - March 2, 2008 at 8:30 AM

Watching Online or Live Streaming Sites :

click here for 1st final India v Sri Lanka March 1, 2008 09:00 PM [Note : This site works only in IE and you need sopcast software downlaoded to watch this game]

For full coverage of this CB series with all previous matches click here

Once match is completed I'll post highlights courtesy@youtube

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