OPPO has recently announced that it will partner with UEFA across different UEFA competitions including the UEFA Champions League, UEFA Super Cup, UEFA Futsal Champions League Finals and UEFA Youth League Finals for the next two seasons.
OPPO will work closely with UEFA to spotlight inspirational moments on and off the pitch, and to help fans witness, hear and share them during the 2022-23 and 2023-24 seasons, said a press release on Thursday.
The UEFA Champions League’s positioning of ‘the best of the best’ aligns with OPPO’s own brand proposition of ‘Inspiration Ahead’ which embodies the brand’s determination in striving for greatness. OPPO will work with UEFA to showcase inspirational moments from the UEFA Champions League to football fans around the world.
OPPO global marketing president said, ‘We are excited to partner with UEFA and work with them to drive inspiration for football fans during UEFA competitions. At OPPO, we believe in the power of innovation to help us overcome life’s challenges, and this synergy with UEFA’s desire to fight in the face of adversity, makes this a perfect partnership.’
UEFA’s marketing director, Guy-Laurent Epstein added ‘We are delighted to welcome OPPO to the UEFA sponsor family with the world’s greatest club competition – the UEFA Champions League. OPPO is a global leader in mobile technology and together, we are looking forward to advancing our efforts of connecting and inspiring football fans around the world.’
As part of the partnership, OPPO will enjoy high visibility, appearing on broadcast backdrops and in stadia, including on extensive perimeter advertising, website and social media of the UEFA Champions League.
In addition, OPPO will offer football fans the unique opportunity to go pitch-side throughout the UEFA Champions League season and capture key moments with OPPO smartphones.
The inspiration moments captured during the matches will be shared in an OPPO gallery on the UEFA Champions League website and OPPO UEFA Champions League landing page, the release added.
Also, the partnership will see leading OPPO devices featured, such as its Find and Reno mobile series, with cutting-edge imaging NPU, MariSilicon X, along with new and upcoming OPPO IoT products such as OPPO headphones and an OPPO smart watch.
These products will help inspire football fans around the world as they enjoy a whole new way of experiencing the UEFA Champions League.
This newest sponsorship expands upon OPPO’s existing sporting partnerships and ambitions to inspire and engage consumers through sports.
Toffee, a top Bangladeshi digital entertainment platform, is exclusively showing the Bangladesh-West Indies cricket series. The second test, three T20 and three ODI matches can be watched for free from any network on android and iOS devices and Android TV. Toffee is the exclusive digital broadcaster of this cricket series.
Toffee is currently streaming the second test match between Bangladesh and West Indies at 8:00 PM. The test match started on 24 June. The three T20 matches can be streamed on 2, 3 and 7 July respectively at 11:30 PM. Later, the three ODI matches can be streamed on 10, 13 and 16 July respectively at 7:30 PM. The said schedule is for Bangladesh standard time.
The Toffee app has a designated channel for live sports. Viewers will be able to watch Bangladesh-West Indies series matches live on this channel. Channel link: https://toffeelive.page.link/wi-vs-ban-2nd-test
Abdul Muqit Ahmed, Director, Toffee, said, “Banglalink wants to bring major live sports coverages on Toffee round the year. Now the audiences will be able to enjoy Bangladesh vs West Indies matches on the go with the fastest 4G internet.”
He added, “As the first Bangladeshi user generated content (UGC) platform, Toffee is continuously adding diverse contents to the platform. We already have a big Turkish series audience base. Besides, the positive reviews of our first original film ‘Mridha Bonam Mridha’ inspired us to bring more quality contents for the platform soon.”
The Toffee app can be downloaded from the Play Store and App Store on Android and iOS devices and Android TV. Some contents can also be viewed on Toffee’s website: https://toffeelive.com/
West Indies team management made it clear that they will not leave no stone unturned to beat Bangladesh in the upcoming two-match Test series despite naming a comparatively inexperienced side.
West Indies in fact needed to win this series for the sake of improving their position in ICC World Test Championship (WTC) in which they are now in sixth position with two wins from seven matches.
“We are looking to pick up World Test Championship points against Bangladesh which will be very important. It would be good for us to use our home advantage to win both Test matches and collect those points,” West Indies lead selector Desmond Haynes said in a statement.
The Caribbean side included three debutants in their 12-man Test squad with wicket-keeper batter Devon Thomas, left-arm spinner Gudakesh Motie and fast bowler Anderson Phillip making their way at the expense of some of the experienced players like Jason Holder, Kemar Roach.
Holder requested for a break from the series while Roach, who turned out to be Bangladesh’s nemesis in the last Test series here in 2018, failed to pass a fitness test. But he is still in a chance to be included as the 13th player, subject to his fitness.
But West Indies will start as favourite given their recent performance at home and against Bangladesh. They have of late defeated England by 1-0 at their home den and won their last two series against Bangladesh also.
Despite fielding an extremely inexperienced side, West Indies won the last two-match series in Bangladesh in 2021. They even chased down a 395-run target for a stunning three-wicket victory in the first Test, thanks to debutant Kyle Mayers who became the first batsman to score a double century in the fourth innings of a Test.
Earlier at their own den in 2018, West Indies also beat Bangladesh by 2-0. In that Test series, Bangladesh could not make more than 168 runs in four innings of those two Test matches. They even were bowled out for 43 runs in their series, which remains their lowest Test innings as of now.
Shakib Al Hasan who led the side in disastrous tour in West Indies in 2018, was back in the helm again after Mominul Haque decided to quit the Test captaincy in a bid to regain his lost form.
Even though his name is involved in that disastrous tour, Shakib led Bangladesh to 2-0 win over West Indies in 2009. He performed with both batting and bowling and as a captain. He took over the captaincy from Mashrafe Bin Mortaza who had to be sidelined due to his injury during the first day of the first Test. Mashrafe thereafter never played any Test. That was the first time, Shakib got the captaincy and made the series memorable one.
However, it is to see whether he could bring that memory back, burying the nightmare of 2018 series.
In fact the BCB appointed Shakib as captain in a bid to usher a new era in Bangladesh’s Test cricket after a perpetual failure in this format.
West Indies squad:
Kraigg Brathwaite ©, Jermaine Blackwood, Nkrumah Bonner, John Campbell, Joshua Da Silva, Alzarri Joseph, Kyle Mayers, Gudakesh Motie, Anderson Phillip, Raymon Reifer, Jayden Seales and Devon Thomas Reserves: Tagernarine Chanderpaul and Shermon Lewis.
Bangladesh opener Tamim Iqbal stands on the brink of some exciting personal milestones, which he could grab in the upcoming West Indies series.
Tamim has been of late in the headline for all wrong reasons as he claimed to have been misquoted regarding his T20 International future. As it was widely reported that Tamim was not given the chance to speak about his T20 career, the BCB president Nazmul Hassan Papon reacted vehemently, saying that Tamim was contacted constantly in this regard.
The situation was such that Tamim had to come out with a facebook post to clear the air at a time when he was about to board a West Indies-bound flight.
However, Tamim has the chance to concentrate on his personal milestone in West Indies, forgetting what happened regarding his T20 plan.
During the recent Test series against Sri Lanka, Tamim had the chance to become the first Bangladeshi batter to reach 5000 runs milestone but he missed out it as Mushfiqur Rahim grabbed the opportunity with both hands.
But Tamim could achieve the feat in the second Test had he not got his first pair of duck in a Test match in his career. He is now 19 runs away from the feat and it is highly likely that he could make those 19 runs to become the second Bangladeshi batter to reach 5000 runs milestone.
He is also 174 runs away from being the first Bangladeshi batter to reach 8000 runs in ODI cricket. Earlier, he became the first one from this country to complete 5000, 6000 and 7000 ODI runs.
If he can score 435 runs in the whole series (in Test and ODI because he is not playing T20 cricket), he will be the first Bangladeshi batter to score 15000 runs in International cricket.
But that is not the end. He is just one six away to hit 100 sixes in ODI cricket as first Bangladeshi batter also.