The Cricket World Cup fever is rising to its peak. Unfortunately, the much-awaited semi final match between India and Pakistan, at Mohali, is happening on a working day (Wednesday, March 30). And this is the match, as usual, where patriotism assumes the 'sportsman spirit' for many, literally, who take it is an eight-hour long world war!
We share with you ways to bluff your boss and keep the cricket fever on while working in your office or on the go.
With Cricinfo.com's (now part of ESPN) popularity, came the era of live score card. The live score card used to share the scores, economy, as well as ball-to-ball details. Slowly, the idea was extended from a PC to phones.
Cricket streaming through Smartphone apps
Starting with smartphones, many cricket streaming channels have collaborated with developers to build smartphone applications for all platforms – be it the iPhone, Android or Symbian. Commonly available applications are ESPNcricinfo, NDTVcricket, Apppli, YahooCricket, Mobicast, ECBcricket, to mention a few.
World Cup would help people realize the benefits of live TV. Users subscribed to 3G can click to TV application to watch live streams of the matches. A few service providers (e.g Tata Communications has Tata Photon) also provide Internet USB dongles to connect with TV through a PC.
Interestingly, a few third-party websites have come up to provide live streaming over the Internet, like crictime.com, webcric.com, indiagalaxy.com, webtv.pk and so on.
So, while your office does not allow bunking just for cricket, you can continue with the fun and the excitement of the cricket. Because somewhere that boss must be sitting in his cabin and watching the same match too, on the phone or the PC!
After all, we all embrace the religion of cricket at least for some time!
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