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Disney Star wins ICC media rights for Indian market for 2024-27 cycle

Disney Star has bagged the broadcast rights of all ICC events for a four-year deal from 2024 to 2027 for the Indian market, the sport's global governing body said on Saturday. Disney Star will be the home of all ICC cricket in India for the next four years having won the TV and digital rights of both men's and women's global events till the end of 2027, the ICC said in a statement. "As per information, Disney Star is paying around USD 3 billion for the rights," a senior ICC Board member told PTI on the condition of anonymity. Disney Star won following a single round sealed bid process which has yielded a significant uplift to the rights fee from the previous cycle continuing the impressive growth and reach of cricket, the apex body said. The decision followed a robust tender, bidding and evaluation process, which started in June 2022. ICC Chair Greg Barclay said: "We are delighted to continue to partner with Disney Star as the home of ICC cricket for the next four years which has

IPL vs ICC media rights: How the two auctions stack up for broadcasters

The winning bid of $3 bn by Star-Disney was double the base price of $1.44 billion set by the ICC, while BCCI raked Rs 48,390 crore for IPL's 2023-27 cycle

Asia Cup 2022: IND vs PAK: Predicted XI, time, pitch report, toss update

India vs Pakistan: India and Pakistan will face each other in the 2nd match of the Asia Cup 2022. Will India be able to avenge its World T20 defeat? Check out the predicted XI, timings, pitch and toss

ICC auction: Disney Star retains media rights for $3 bn till 2027

Disney Star won the closed-loop bid process after beating rivals such as Sony, Zee and Viacom18

Disney Star wins ICC media rights for next 4-year cycle in a close-loop bid

Disney Star won the deal following a single round sealed bid process and will be the home of all ICC cricket in India for the next four years

Viacom18 wants closed-envelope bids for media rights junked, ICC disagrees

Says the cricket governing body must explain PwC's exit from the auction process

Asia Cup 2022: Groups, schedule, venue, team list and full squad

Asia Cup 2022 will be played in Dubai and Sharjah from August 27 to September 11. Read this detailed article to know about the venues, groups, and full squad and schedule

RIP Rudi Koertzen! Twitter mourns the death of the legendry cricket umpire

Twitter mourned Rudi Koertze, the umpire known for his slow finger raise, which got slower as it rose to announce the doom of the batter

ENG vs IND 3rd ODI Highlights: Pant-Pandya special wins series for India

England vs India 3rd ODI Highlights: Thanks to a brilliant maiden ODI ton by Rishabh Pant and Hardik Pandya's all-round show of four wickets and 71 runs, India beat England by 5 wickets to win series

Pakistan Cricket Board asks ICC to form growth strategy for T20 franchise

Pakistan Cricket Board has asked ICC to form a strategy on controlling the growth of franchise T20 leagues with rising concerns about its impact on the international cricket calendar

New Zealand Cricket to pay men, women equally: Where does India stand?

Top-grade international male cricketers get Rs 7 crore annual salary; women get Rs 50 lakh

Cricket rights: Indian broadcasters concerned about ICC's auction process

This comes as the governing body of world cricket is auctioning Indian media rights separately from global media rights as India is the largest market for cricket

ICC begins countdown to T20 World Cup with trophy tour across 4 continents

The ICC Men's T20 World Cup Tour will see the trophy travel across four continents before returning to Geelong on October 16, when the tournament gets underway

ICC media rights: Sale process for 711 matches starts from June 20

The ICC has also kept the process linear with three specific packages for both men and women; package A is TV Rights, 'B' is Digital Rights and 'C' is combined TV and Digital Rights in both categories

ICC retains Menon in Elite Panel, set for maiden neutral umpire appearance

India's Nitin Menon has retained his place in the ICC Elite Panel and is set to make his maiden appearance as a neutral umpire in Sri Lanka later this month

ICC chair Barclay warns of reduction in volume of Test cricket in future

The ever-increasing domestic T20 leagues are squeezing bilateral ties and Test cricket runs the risk of witnessing a reduction in its volume in a decade's time, warned ICC chair Greg Barclay

International Cricket Council announces BYJU'S as global partner until 2023

The International Cricket Council (ICC) on Monday announced BYJU'S, India's largest EdTech company as their global partner from 2021 to 2023.

ICC appoints Pakistan's Wasim Khan as its General Manager-Cricket

The ICC on Friday appointed Wasim Khan, the former chief executive of Pakistan Cricket Board, as its General Manager - Cricket to succeed Geoff Allardice.

ICC CEO makes a strong pitch for inclusion of cricket in Olympic Games

Women's Twenty20 cricket has been included at the 2022 Commonwealth Games at Birmingham following on from the men's competition at the Kuala Lumpur CWG in 1998.

Startup's fundraise for cricket NFT gets Ronaldo among its backers: Report

An online platform for trading officially-licensed digital cricket collectibles, is raising about $100 million in a new funding round with backers including Cristiano Ronaldo