Internet Comes Alive Following Sachin’s First ODI Double Century Stint

February 24, 2010 a day that will go into the cricket history books, or for that matter a day that the entire sporting world will remember.Needless to say this is one of the best moment Indian cricket has ever gifted us.

Sachin Tendulkar becoming the first ever cricketer (male cricketer I’d say) to score an One Day International double century (200) in an innings.[ofcourse also the the highest ODI score ever]

I’m so excited that I’m posting about a sporting event in this technology blog !

Sachin Double century One day internationals

It just not me in excitement, but all the cricket lovers around the world, and I’m gonna show you how much phenomenal this has been.

Twitter has flooded with so many #sachin, #sachinisgods, #tendulkar, just checkout this twitter trending topics picture

Sachin all the way:

sachin on twitter trending topics

sachin tweets flooding

Not many a times that Twitter which normally trends only top gadgets releases etc., is trending Sachin’s historical innings.People tweeted, re-tweeted, replied, blogged #sachin eager to see their cricketing god reaching remarkable figure in cricket history.And just when he passed Saeed Anwar’s 194 mark, people just had gone on their feet in excitement and that’s just the beginning and continued till he reached his 200 in the 50th over of the innings in the Gwalior 2nd one day match against South Africa.

I wonder how many tweets it has added to twitter’s 50 million tweets per day mark.Not to mention about so many status updates about lauding Sachin in Facebook as well as in Orkut & Google Buzz.And I expect IPL 3 (coming in 2 weeks) YouTube deal will just bring more buzz about cricket on the internet.

and that’s why fans say:

#SachinIsGod

Take a bow master !!

YouTube To Stream IPL Matches Live From India

YouTube IPL LogoGoogle India has just struck a nice deal with Indian Premier League (IPL) organizers that would enable to stream the IPL season 3 cricket matches live from it’s video-sharing site YouTube.

Google now holds the exclusive online rights of the IPL matches for two years.All the matches would be broadcasted with a delay of 5 minutes from the original live feed.

The live matches can be watched online from IPL’s YouTube account http://www.youtube.com/ipl.

With around 60 matches to be played, the tournament would be starting from March 12, 2010 and will run till April 25, 2010 in India.

IPL on YouTube March 2010

It’s probably the first time that Google is broadcasting a live sporting event.However IPL fans in USA may just have to stick to other unofficial live streaming sites as they wouldn’t be able to watch this coverage from YouTube.

BTW, the coverage also includes match highlights, interview of the man-of-the match player for that day, all wickets, top sixes of the match,award ceremony, pitch report etc.