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Sky wins new ICC deal

Sky Sports has won the live rights to all ICC cricket events over the next two years, including the World Cup in 2011.

The deal grants Sky Sports live and highlights rights across all platforms - television, mobile and internet - to some of the sport’s biggest one-day and Twenty20 competitions featuring all the major playing nations.

The following will be shown live on Sky:

1) ICC World Cup - live coverage of cricket’s most important one-day competition from India, Sri Lanka and Bangladesh, beginning in February 2011.

2) ICC World Twenty20 - the next two competitions live; from England this month and the West Indies in 2010.

3) ICC Champions Trophy - live coverage of this year’s tournament, taking place in South Africa during September and October.

4) Women’s and under-19s cricket - the semi finals and final of the ICC Women’s World Twenty20 in England this month live, plus the U-19s World Cup from Kenya in 2010.

And don’t forget - Sky Sports will screen every game from the ICC World Twenty20 exclusively live beginning with the match between England and Holland on Friday.

A Grand Slam Summer of Sport continues with uninterrupted coverage of the npower Ashes series.

This will be the first Ashes series ever to be screened in high definition as Shane Warne joins Sir Ian Botham, David Gower, Michael Atherton, Nasser Hussain, David Lloyd and Michael Holding in the commentary box.

Plus, there is also of action to follow on the domestic scene as Sky will broadcast over 60 live games featuring each county at least three times from the four major competitions.

Source: Sky sports, June4

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