Eurosport extends Champions League Twenty20 rights

Pan-European sports broadcaster Eurosport has extended a rights deal for the Champions League Twenty20 cricket tournament.

The deal will run for three years, from 2014 to 2016, and will cover more than 50 European countries, including the UK and Ireland and mainland Europe.

Eurosport will offer live action as well as delayed and replay coverage plus catch-up services.

Eurosport struck the renewal with Asian pay-television broadcaster Star Sports, the tournament’s global rights distribution partner.

Eurosport has broadcast the tournament – which will take place in India and feature the top T20 teams from Australia, India, New Zealand, Pakistan, South Africa, Sri Lanka and the West Indies – for the past four years.