Amrita Rao and Harbhajan Singh promote cricket channel NEO Sports

openingbat — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 14:32:00 GMT

Amrita Rao was in Mumbai with Harbhajan Singh to promote the forthcoming cricket programming on NEO. The cricket season starts next week and will go on till March 2010. The event was held at Taj Land yesterday.

From Channel [V] to Extra Cover - Archana Vijay

openingbat — Fri, 20 Jun 2008 23:54:00 GMT

Supermodel, VJ, and now Cricket Anchor Archana Vijay, interviewed Virender Sehwag just before the start of play on the day he went on to score his triple century. She has that effect on people.

Archana Vijay's life changed overnight after winning Channel [V]'s Get Gorgeous title in 2004. Alipore's Archana Vijaya who went to Loreto House and Bhawanipore College is a sports fanatic, but was more inclined towards basketball in school.   After winning the Get Gorgeous title, Archana switched to walking the ramp in Milan, Rome, Paris and became a Channel [V] anchor.

The 24-year-old quit Channel [V] to do Tour Diary for Extra Cover on Neo Sports - an 'inside the locker room' style pre-match program that one normally associates with soccer and NBA basketball.   She is not Mandira Bedi or Mayanti Langer.   Her cricket show is all about the cities, the romance of the place and the places to be - a tour diary.   "I make the people far away feel at home," she says.

For instance, she went shopping with Andrew Symonds (in Hyderabad), visited Sreesanth's house in Kochi, and did dandiya in Gujarat with Irfan Pathan.   The type of stuff that draws audiences.

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Amrita Rao and Harbhajan Singh promote cricket channel NEO Sports

From Channel [V] to Extra Cover - Archana Vijay