International Cricket Council (ICC)

Disney Star is attempting to reduce its $3bn (€2.7bn) rights fee obligations to the ICC, which itself is likely to see current BCCI secretary Jay Shah take over as chair, SportBusiness understands.

The International Cricket Council has drawn encouraging audience figures on its free direct-to-consumer OTT platform ICC.tv for the 2024 Men’s T20 World Cup, which concludes tomorrow (Saturday).

Stats Perform has regained exclusive betting data and streaming rights to ICC events in a four-year deal, having been replaced by rival Sportradar from 2021 to 2023.

The ICC closed its sales process in the subcontinent with an uplift in Bangladesh, though in Sri Lanka it was not able to defy the current difficulties of the market.

Sky New Zealand has renewed its International Cricket Council rights from 2024 to 2028, SportBusiness understands

PTV and sports newcomer Hum Network secured International Cricket Council rights in Pakistan over the next two years, agreeing to pay an increase on previous deals for the rights.

MTV Channel (Private) Limited has acquired rights in Sri Lanka to International Cricket Council (ICC) competitions until the end of 2025, leaving New Zealand as the only main market where a deal is yet to be announced for the current cycle.

PTV, the state broadcaster in Pakistan, and media group Tower Sports have acquired non-exclusive rights in the country to leading tournaments of the International Cricket Council over the next two years

The International Cricket Council's top events are to continue to be shown across the Caribbean and Latin America by Disney-owned sports broadcaster ESPN for the next eight years

The International Cricket Council has released an invitation to tender covering 2024 and 2025 for its media rights in Bangladesh, Pakistan and Sri Lanka, the last remaining major markets where it is yet…

Evision, the media and entertainment arm of telco e&, has secured exclusive International Cricket Council rights in the Middle East and North Africa until the end of 2027

An immediate consequence of the collapse in the proposed merger between Sony Pictures Networks and Zee Entertainment is that the latter now intends to withdraw its planned $1.4bn (€1.2bn) commitment to rival media group Disney Star towards rights fees for International Cricket Council events.

Disney Star, rather than Zee Entertainment, will show the upcoming International Cricket Council U19 World Cup on its linear channels, in the wake of the delay in the merger between Sony Pictures Networks…

Online retail giant Amazon “blew the competition out of the park,” to quote one source, in order to secure International Cricket Council rights for the next four years in Australia.

E-commerce giant Amazon has taken a major leap into cricket after securing exclusive media rights in Australia to International Cricket Council events from 2024 to 2027

Disney Star recorded a peak concurrency of 35 million viewers on its OTT platform during the ICC Cricket World Cup match between India and Pakistan on October 14, setting a new global sports streaming…

The International Olympic Committee is set for a significant rise in the value of its media rights in the Indian subcontinent, after cricket was recommended to be part of the 2028 edition in Los Angeles

The International Cricket Council (ICC) has claimed a first for the sport by announcing that it will produce an additional vertical video feed for India’s staging of the upcoming 2023 World Cup.