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Waqar, Kambli to don new roles

By Our Special Correspondent

NEW DELHI, JUNE 29. Waqar Younis and fellow first-timer Vinod Kambli will join Arun Lal and Maninder Singh in the Star Sports hindi commentary team for the last five matches of the Indian Oil Asia Cup to be played in Colombo from July 16 to August 1.

For ESPN, Sunil Gavaskar, Ravi Shastri, Wasim Akram, Greg Chappell, Dean Jones and Harsha Bhogle form the commentary team.

Announcing this, the managing director of ESPN Software, R.C. Venkateish said the simultaneous telecast of live matches on two channels was a first-of-a-kind initiative.

He said except the lunch-show `Shaz and Waz', the programming on the two channels would be different. With Shekhar Suman as host, Star Sports plans to introduce interactive segments like `Voice Aapki-Choice Aapki' and `Aapkee Farmaish'.

The groupings:

Group `A': Pakistan, Bangladesh and Hong Kong; Group `B': India, Sri Lanka and UAE.

The schedule:

July 16: Bangladesh-Hong Kong (9.30 a.m.) SSC; India-UAE (2 p.m.) Dambulla; July 17: Pakistan-Bangladesh (9.30 a.m.) SSC; Sri Lanka v UAE (2 p.m.) Dambulla; July 18: Pakistan-Hong Kong (9.30 a.m.) SSC; India-Sri Lanka (2 p.m.) Dambulla; July 21: A2 v B2 (9.30 a.m.) SSC; A1 v B1 (2 p.m.) Premadasa; July 23: A2 v B1 (2 p.m.) Premadasa; July 25: A1 v B2 (2 p.m.) Premadasa; July 27: B1 v B2 (2 p.m.) Premadasa; July 29: A1 v A2 (2 p.m.) Premadasa; Aug. 1: Final (2 p.m.) Premadasa.