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Sky Sports will show exclusive live coverage of England's ODI and T20 series against India in March.

https://www.skysports.com/cricket/ne...ommentary-team

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Fans will also get to watch plenty of Virat Kohli, Rohit Sharma and Jasprit Bumrah in the next year as Sky Sports will also broadcast India's home tours against South Africa (Oct 2021), New Zealand (November 2021), West Indies (January 2022) and Sri Lanka (February 2022).

Raider999

22-02-2021 13:27

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Originally Posted by denphone (Post 36071584)

Sky Sports will show exclusive live coverage of England's ODI and T20 series against India in March.

https://www.skysports.com/cricket/ne...ommentary-team

I couldn't find anything by googling, this appears to be only on Sky website.

Is it accurate because Channel 4 were announced as the broadcasters for the whole tour (test, T20 and ODI) although interestingly it only applied exclusive to the tests.

Sky's announcement seems to contradict this - I suppose time will tell.

denphone

22-02-2021 13:58

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Originally Posted by Raider999 (Post 36071602)

Why would Sky put it on their website if it was not true?

Raider999

22-02-2021 15:42

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Originally Posted by denphone (Post 36071606)

Why would Sky put it on their website if it was not true?

Equally why would internet previously state Channel 4 had the rights?

Maybe it will be on both?

1andrew1

22-02-2021 15:58

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Originally Posted by Raider999 (Post 36071623)

Equally why would internet previously state Channel 4 had the rights?

Maybe it will be on both?

Does anyone have a link to the Channel 4 rights article? Has it been amended since original publication?

bluecatt73

22-02-2021 16:25

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Link to the Channel 4 presser dated Feb 3rd. Makes no mention of the white ball rights.

https://www.channel4.com/press/news/...urns-channel-4

telegramsam

22-02-2021 17:10

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Originally Posted by bluecatt73 (Post 36071628)

Link to the Channel 4 presser dated Feb 3rd. Makes no mention of the white ball rights.

https://www.channel4.com/press/news/...urns-channel-4

Interesting they say 'exclusive free to air' which could indicate that sky are also showing it but channel 4 are the only ones showing it free.

Richardr

22-02-2021 19:36

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Originally Posted by telegramsam (Post 36071632)

Interesting they say 'exclusive free to air' which could indicate that sky are also showing it but channel 4 are the only ones showing it free.

They are the only ones showing it - but it, as per that page, is test match cricket.

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Channel 4 will show exclusive free to air live television coverage of England’s Test series against India.

Raider999

22-02-2021 19:39

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The original said Channel 4 had the rights to the whole tour but reading carefully said C4 had exclusive rights to the Tests but didn't say exclusive rights to T20/ODI matches.

It may have been altered/superseded.

As I said there was nothing on the Internet about sky having the T20/ODI rights apart from on Sky's own website.

It doesn't affect me as I have access to both.

Interestingly I have seen an article that suggests C4 only paid £5m not the £20m the Indians wanted - I think questions should be asked why BBC didn't compete - saving their money for Wimbledon perhaps?

gaz82

22-02-2021 22:03

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Channel 4's rights were only ever for the Test Series. Here's another source stating so:
https://www.theguardian.com/sport/20...rights-cricket

And another source stating Sky winning the rights to the ODI and T20 Series, published 7 days ago:
https://www.insidesport.co/india-vs-...nd-odi-series/

Raider999

23-02-2021 13:55

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Originally Posted by gaz82 (Post 36071665)

And this article, also in the guardian

http://www.theguardian.com/sport/Feb...-4-wins-rights

Clearly states it is the entire tour - four tests, five Twenty20s and 3 ODI

Phunkenstein

23-02-2021 14:23

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Originally Posted by Raider999 (Post 36071720)

And this article, also in the guardian

http://www.theguardian.com/sport/Feb...-4-wins-rights

Clearly states it is the entire tour - four tests, five Twenty20s and 3 ODI

That article came out a day before the Channel 4 press release so reasonable to think their sources at the time may have assumed it was the whole thing before it was clarified the following day.

Raider999

23-02-2021 22:25

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Originally Posted by Phunkenstein (Post 36071728)

That article came out a day before the Channel 4 press release so reasonable to think their sources at the time may have assumed it was the whole thing before it was clarified the following day.

Probably so

denphone

11-03-2021 21:13

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Most of Six Nations looks increasingly likely it will go behind a paywall.

https://www.theguardian.com/sport/20...ns-rugby-union

japitts

11-03-2021 23:17

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Originally Posted by denphone (Post 36073918)

Most of Six Nations looks increasingly likely it will go behind a paywall.

https://www.theguardian.com/sport/20...ns-rugby-union

I'm not so sure about the 6N going pay, but there's lots of fairly consistent rumours that the 6N & autumn-internationals will be bundled together in a new TV deal.

I won't be at all surprised to see the autumn series go predominantly pay, in return for keeping more of the 6N, on FTA.

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