Qualifying for the Men’s Cricket World Cup 2023, the Women’s T20 World Cup 2023 and the Men’s T20 World Cup 2022 will be available online The ICC and IMG have agreed a partnership to live stream qualifying matches for the next three World Cups. The Men’s Cricket World Cup 2023, the Women’s T20 World Cup […]
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Sky Sports to broadcast India v England ODIs and T20 series
India’s home tours against South Africa, New Zealand, West Indies, and Sri Lanka will also be shown over the next 12 months Sky Sports has agreed a deal to broadcast the three ODI and five T20 matches of England’s tour of India. The pay-TV provider lost out to free-to-air Channel 4 for the test series, […]
BT Sport to air England cricket tours of West Indies and New Zealand
All domestic and international cricket from the two federations will be shown by the broadcaster BT Sport will air the England men’s and women’s cricket teams upcoming tours of the West Indies and New Zealand. The broadcaster has signed multi-year deals with the two federations to show all domestic and international cricket based in them. […]
Channel 4 brings test cricket back to terrestrial TV for first time since 2005
England’s test series against India will be shown on the free-to-air broadcaster from Friday Channel 4 will air England’s test series against India, bringing test cricket back to terrestrial TV for the first time since the 2005 Ashes. Global rights holder Star Sports has signed a deal with Channel 4 for the four match series. […]
Sky Sports agrees three-year deal to broadcast Pakistan cricket
Home internationals and the Pakistan Super League will be aired in the UK Sky Sports and the Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) have agreed a three-year deal to show Pakistan’s home internationals and the Pakistan Super League (PSL) in the UK. This joins deals the PCB has signed with state broadcaster Pakistan Television (PTV), Willow TV […]
Report: Disney and Amazon considering move into English cricket broadcasting
This could mean that consumers will need multiple subscriptions to follow the England cricket team Disney is reportedly set to show the England cricket team’s tour of India this winter. In addition, Amazon is interested in the rights for the next Ashes series, which could force consumers into multiple subscriptions if they want to watch […]
LIVEnow picks up global rights for inaugural Lanka Premier League cricket
The tournament will be shown globally by LIVEnow, although not in the UK and Ireland where the rights are held by Sky Sports. Streaming platform LIVEnow has picked up the exclusive rights in 111 countries to air the Lanka Premier League – Sri Lanka’s new domestic cricket T20 league. The tournament started yesterday, with five […]
Whisper opens in New Zealand
The production company sets up office after winning a contract to cover cricket in the country. Whisper has set up an office in New Zealand, headed by Tracy Wong, which will focus on the production of New Zealand Cricket games. The office is Whisper’s fourth and its first outside of the UK. Its other offices […]
Caribbean Premier League partners with WSC Sports for video highlights
The CPL is the first Twenty20 tournament to return since the coronavirus hiatus The Caribbean Premier League (CPL) has teamed up with AI sports video technology company WSC Sports to enhance its real-time video highlights. The CPL is the first Twenty20 tournament to return to action since the enforced coronvirus postponements, and will use WSC’s […]
Behind Closed Doors: The Covid Test Match begins tonight on Sky Sports
Cricket doc follows the sport’s return as lockdown measures begin to ease. Sky Sports is airing a new short feature, Behind Closed Doors: The Covid Test Match, which begins tonight at 8pm, and takes cricket fans backstage at the first #raisethebat Test between England and West Indies at the Ageas Bowl. The film promises to […]
ICC hits Facebook for six to become leading sport for video views
The cricket governing body points to the U19 World Cup and the Women’s T20 World Cup for its success in gaining 1.65 billion views on the platform The International Cricket Council (ICC) has revealed that it is the leading sports body in terms of video consumption on Facebook in 2020. The governing body has attracted […]
Timeline and Whisper bring cricket back to the BBC
Cricket is back on the BBC after over 20 years Whisper has won two contracts with the BBC and England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB) to help bring the sport back to the public-service broadcaster after a 20-year hiatus. As part of the first deal, Whisper will deliver peak-time cricket highlights. These began on 8 […]
Whisper wins Spark Sport cricket contract in New Zealand
The production company reveals its second big cricket win of the week. Whisper has been appointed by Spark Sport to produce all New Zealand Cricket matches played in New Zealand over the next six summers. The production company will produce live coverage of all home Blackcaps and White Ferns Internationals and Super Smash matches on […]
Whisper to produce BBC cricket content as the sport returns on 8 July
Whisper wins BBC contract as cricket returns, and will also create online highlights for the ECB. Whisper has won the contract to produce the BBC’s peak-time cricket highlights, as the broadcaster begins showing cricket again from Wednesday this week (8 July). Whisper has won a multi-year contract with the BBC to produce TV highlights for […]
Michael Vaughan joins Whisper to grow cricket output
Vaughan has been brought in to build on the company’s cricket coverage. Whisper has added ex-cricketer and cricket broadcaster Michael Vaughan to its advisory board. Vaughan will focus on Whisper’s growing cricket portfolio and other broadcast and branded projects, with a focus on new business. The former England cricket great retired in 2009 and has […]
Sky Sports unveils schedule for inaugural The Cricket Show
Cricket-focused magazine show includes ECB’s Tom Harrison talking about the future of the highly anticipated The Hundred tournament. The first episode of Sky Sports’ The Cricket Show will TX at 2pm tomorrow (30 April). It features cricket ‘super fan’ Captain Tom Moore, who has raised more than £29m for the NHS through his garden walks. […]
Sky Sports updates schedules with archive, docs and a series of new shows
Archive material, new shows and documentaries to be unveiled by Sky Sports over the coming weeks and months. Sky Sports is launching a weekday mid-morning football show and adding a range of content across its 11 channels, digital and social platforms in an attempt to “give viewers their sporting fix during these times of national […]
BBC fills sports void with wealth of sports archive content
The broadcaster is replacing live sports events with classic sporting moments. With coronavirus putting a stop to all live sport, BBC Sport is the latest sport broadcaster to turn its attentions to archive sports footage. It’s scheduling a whole calendar of archive sporting events, including the London 2012 Olympic Games. BBC1 will show both The […]
Could we be seeing the end of pay-tv packages?
Tomos Jones, senior associate at Reed Smith, takes a look at the future of sports broadcasting models What can we learn from recent developments in the pay television sector? Everything from Disney’s deal with Sky to place the new Disney+ service on Sky’s top boxes, to BT’s new packaging structure and the recent news that […]
Amazon Prime Video releases trailer for cricket doc, The Test
The documentary will show behind-the-scenes footage from the Australia test side Amazon Prime Video has released a new trailer for The Test: A New Era For Australia’s Team, ahead of its March release. The documentary will follow the Australia national cricket team from the aftermath of the ball-tampering scandal in South Africa in 2018, to […]
Sky Sports secures exclusive IPL rights
It has signed a three-year deal to show the cricket tournament Sky Sports has secured a three-year deal to exclusively show the Indian Premier League (IPL) in the UK. The broadcaster held the rights to the T20 tournament from 2015-18, but lost out to BT Sports at the last minute for 2019. It had been […]
C4 head of sport champions free-to-air/pay TV partnerships
Channel 4 head of sport, Pete Andrews used the Westminster Media Forum Sports Broadcasting event to showcase the benefits of free-to-air/pay TV partnerships Speaking at the Westminster Media Forum Event on Sports Broadcasting on Tuesday, C4 head of sport Pete Andrews made clear his support of partnering with pay TV providers for flagship sporting events. […]
Amazon catches Aussie cricket doc
Local producer prepares multi-part series Justin Langer: Australian cricket coach Amazon has gained exclusive access to the Australian cricket team at a time of change for the former world number one side. Australian indie duo CA Film and Whooshka Media, in association with Cricket Australia, is producing The Test: A New Era for Australia’s Team, which […]