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The International Cricket Council has revealed plans for expanded live broadcast coverage of its Women’s World Twenty20 national team tournament, which will take place in India from March 15 to April 3.

Australian pay-television broadcaster Fox Sports and commercial broadcaster Nine have sealed late rights deals for the upcoming World Twenty20 cricket tournament in India.

The International Cricket Council has awarded digital clip rights in North America and Pakistan for its events over a four-year period, from 2016 to 2019.

The International Cricket Council will make television umpire communication during the knockout stages of the ongoing World Cup national team tournament available to host broadcaster, pay-television broadcaster Star Sports.

Sports content company Aurora Media Worldwide will produce a bespoke package of programmes for the 2015 Cricket World Cup under an agreement with the International Cricket Council.

Giles Clarke, the head of the International Cricket Council’s media-rights negotiation team, hailed this month’s deal with Rupert Murdoch’s Star pay-television operations as “hugely positive for the game around the world.”

Interview with Giles Clarke, chairman of the finance and commercial affairs committee for the International Cricket Council, on the governing body’s new eight-year deal with Star India and Star Middle East.

Pay-television operator OSN has secured the exclusive broadcasting rights in the Middle East and North Africa region for all 18 International Cricket Council tournaments and qualifiers under the global governing body’s 2015 to 2023 rights cycle.

The International Cricket Council, the sport’s global governing body, has awarded its global media rights to its major events for eight years, from 2015 to 2023, by signing its “biggest-ever” partnership with pay-television broadcasters Star India and Star Middle East – both subsidiaries of media company 21st Century Fox.

UK pay-television broadcaster BSkyB has acquired rights for top cricket properties operated by the International Cricket Council, the sport’s global governing body.

The International Cricket Council, the sport’s global governing body, has received 17 bids from various broadcasters across different territories for the media rights to its major events for the next eight year cycle spanning 2015 to 2023.

The International Cricket Council, the sport’s global governing body, has launched a tender process for the sale of media rights to its major events for the next eight year cycle spanning 2015 to 2023.

The ICC’s ambitious income target for its next cycle of media rights sales

If there is a common thread running through our stories this issue it is change. It is a process that all sports go through, usually to secure increased media exposure and revenue, and occasionally due to power struggles about how that revenue is divided.

US sports broadcaster ESPN will broadcast live coverage of the final of the 2014 World Twenty20 international cricket tournament on its ESPN 2 cable and satellite television channel.

Big-hitting BSkyB lands two more cricket deals to keep BT at bay