Cricket

The England and Wales Cricket Board has entered into a two-year partnership with News UK that will allow the newspaper publishing group to show near live video clips of the England team’s international matches across its digital platforms.

The Bangladesh Cricket Board has issued a tender for its worldwide media rights across a six-year period spanning May 1, 2014 to April 30, 2020.

Times Internet, the online and mobile arm of Indian publishing company Times Group, has sublicensed live mobile streaming rights for the 2014 season of the Indian Premier League Twenty20 cricket tournament to Indian media company NexGTv.

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.

Media rights clips from March 27 to April 9

UK pay-television broadcaster BSkyB has acquired live rights to the one-day international cricket match between Scotland and England which will take place on May 9 in Aberdeen.

US sports broadcaster ESPN set a new landmark on Sunday by televising live cricket for the first time on one of its fully-distributed cable networks, ESPN 2.

Pay-television broadcaster One World Sports has announced a multi-platform agreement to carry every home match of the England national cricket team through 2017 in North America.

Media rights clips from March 13 to March 26

Sri Lanka cricket drops in value

Media rights clips from February 27 to March 12

South African public-service broadcaster the SABC has acquired rights for the 2014 International Cricket Council World Twenty20 tournament in a sublicensing deal with SuperSport, the pay-television broadcaster that operates in sub-Saharan Africa.

Cricket’s Caribbean Premier League splits global rights

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.

The IMG Productions division of the IMG agency has renewed a deal to produce coverage of the Caribbean Premier League Twenty20 cricket tournament.