Sunil Gavaskar says he is planning to set up a blog
CHENNAI: Little Master Sunil Gavaskar has ruled out plans to write a sequel to his autobiography Sunny Days.But what the icon of Indian cricket has now decided is to blog his experiences on the game that made him a legend. “I am thinking of setting up a cricket blog. Hopefully I will be doing it faster than the columns,” Gavaskar told a community of bloggers at the India blogcamp.in <http://blogcamp.in/> here on Sunday.
He solicited help from India’s blogging community to kickstart the blog soon and there was spontaneous response of ‘aye’.The master batsman, who writes his popular columns in long hand, is a reluctant convert to computers — he faced a blank screen after hours of typing on a PC during the West Indies tour last year — but has been podcasting his commentary on internet giant Yahoo.
“I belong to the generation of transistors. I grew up listening to the transistor and we had one newspaper at home,” Gavaskar, who tracked the recent Indian tour of West Indies on the internet from the US, said.
For the avid newspaper columnist and television commentator, podcasting was altogether a learning experience. “Narrowing a 90-over match in six to seven minutes and just giving highlights of the day’s play is sometimes disadvantageous. Trying to summaries, you may actually miss out on a cameo or a crucial moment of the match,” Gavaskar said of his audio review online.
Yahoo’s India managing director George Zacharias said that the little master’s podcasts has a huge following and his reviews of any match gets tens of thousands of hits from cricket crazy fans. Having read some cricketing blogs over the past few days, he also has suggestion to bloggers interested in the game.
Gavaskar is all praise for the current crop of players who don the Indian colours for being tech savvy.
“The entire team is computer savvy, you can see it in their performance,” he said.
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