We reached late yesterday. I met my very old friend with
friendship 59 years old, Mr. Yogesh Mathuria. He had come to London from Abu
Dhabi all the way to receive us when we reach London. He came in the morning.
We could reach hotel at about 10 pm and then only we could meet him.
I must appreciate him for coming all the way by travelling
overnight by air to reach London. He has been my friend for lifetime and his
feelings and joy that we are completing the trip from Singapore to London
brought him to London. We all appreciate him.
In the morning we were scheduled to meet BBC Sports person
for interview at 9am.. The interview was regarding our journey from Singapore
to London to support Team India in the World Cup. We reached near the gate of
Lords Cricket ground where we met Mr. Adam, who took our interview. Most of the
interview was with Anupam. He also asked some questions from the other three
participants. He took our photos and the photos of the car.
We then proceeded to Leeds. The proposed time to meet the
team from Star Sports for interview with them was 3 pm. This was postponed to 5
pm. as we were late in leaving London. The interview took place outside our
hotel at Leeds. The Star Sports team included Two presenters, one cameraman and
one lady who was directing the cameraman. The interviewers were very energetic
and cooperative. They took our interview and took video of our car reaching the
Hotel and we un-loading the luggage from the car and getting into the hotel.
The interview was done in English and Hindi. The presenter of Tamil version
also asked us to speak few words in Tamil. We have stayed in Chennai, so we
could say few words.
In the morning today, Star Sports had included our videos
in their programme titled “Follow the Blues”. It was telecast in India at 2 pm.
Star Sports team informed us that the videos taken today will be telecast in
India tomorrow at 8 am, 9am, 10 am and more programmes to follow in the same
programme “Follow the Blues”.
In addition to these two interviews, “Dainik Bhaskar”,
leading Hindi daily news paper with highest circulation in India also has been
in contact with us for last few days. They have taken interview of Anupam and
Aditi with trip details provided by us. This may be published one of the coming
days in their newspaper.
It was an amazing day and suddenly we found ourselves in
limelight with Interviews with Star Sports, Dainik Bhaskar and BBC Sports. Lot
of relatives and friends informed us of the clippings shown on Star Sports
today in India. They sent us the video recordings. It was new thing for us to
be in Limelight.
Tomorrow is very important day as we will be watching the
Leeds match between India and Sri Lanka on the ground.
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