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The Pakistan Cricket Board has announced a series of international media-rights deals covering cricket played in the country during the 2021 to 2023 period
Industry Moves Cricket

Former IMG and England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB) executive Mike Fordham has been appointed chief executive of Indian Premier League cricket team Rajasthan Royals
Media Cricket

Indian streaming platform Eros Now has acquired media rights in multiple markets for this year's Abu Dhabi T10 cricket tournament and agreed a sponsorship deal with Team Abu Dhabi
Sponsorship & Marketing Cricket

LV= General Insurance (LV= GI) has rekindled its association with elite cricket in England and Wales by agreeing a three-year deal to become the new official title sponsor of England’s men’s and women’s Tests …
Events Cricket

IMG has moved to counter reports that its 13-year event management rights contract with Twenty20 cricket competition the Indian Premier League has been terminated, issuing a statement in which it said…
Industry Moves Cricket

Oakwell Sports Advisory group, the London-based specialist corporate service for the sports and media technology sector, has announced the appointment of Colin Graves, CBE to its advisory board
Media Cricket

International sports broadcaster Eurosport has acquired exclusive rights in India to the forthcoming cricket series between the United Arab Emirates and Ireland
Events Cricket

The Indian cricket team is reported to be unhappy at what it sees as overly restrictive quarantine restrictions during its tour in Australia, raising doubts over the location of the planned fourth Test…
Media Cricket

The Bangladesh Cricket Board (BCB) has raised BDT17.9 crore (€1.7m/$2.1m) from its sale of broadcast rights to Bangladesh’s forthcoming home series against West Indies.

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USA Cricket is working with 49ers Enterprises, the investment arm of the San Francisco 49ers, in its bold attempts to popularize the sport in the country. USA Cricket chief executive Iain Higgins speaks to SportBusiness.
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Sponsorship & Marketing

Logistics brand DP World entered into a long-term deal with IPL franchise Royal Challengers Bangalore in 2020 and become title sponsor of Renault's F1 team, building on its existing sponsorship of the European Tour. Daniel Van Otterdijk, chief communications officer for the company, explains how each deal supports its objectives.
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Sponsorship & Marketing

SportBusiness speaks to Cricket Australia’s national commercial development manager Phil Rigby about how, in spite of the challenges of the Covid-19 pandemic, the organisation is confident about its sponsorship prospects. Tom King reports.
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Business

Adam Nelson talks to stakeholders from across women's sport about the impact of the pandemic and how the sector is well-placed to rebound thanks to a healthy revenue mix
Sponsorship & Marketing Cricket

Online trading provider CMC Markets has signed as a key sponsor of Australia’s Big Bash League (BBL) cricket club Sydney Sixers for the 2020-21 season.
Sponsorship & Marketing Cricket

Sri Lanka Cricket has added paint manufacturer JAT Holdings to its sponsorship portfolio as well as confirming an extension with long-term sponsor Dialog Axiata
Media Cricket

Rights to England’s forthcoming cricket tour to India will be retained in the UK by the Walt Disney Company to exploit itself, it has been reported.
Licensing & Merchandising Cricket

The Federation of International Cricketers’ Associations (Fica) is set to take legal action against the International Cricket Council (ICC) over the alleged unfair use of players’ image rights.
Industry Moves Cricket

Cricket Australia, governing body for the sport in the country, is looking to recruit a head of commercial in the new year
Sponsorship & Marketing Cricket

The England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB) has extended its wide-ranging sponsorship contract with private medical insurance brand Vitality
Finance & Law Cricket

Australian commercial broadcaster Seven West Media and Cricket Australia will face off in court on March 15 next year as part of their ongoing dispute over the value of a media rights deal
Events Baseball

Amazon is expected by some sports media rights industry experts to follow up its bid for New Zealand Cricket rights in India with bids for bigger properties such as the Indian Premier League
Events Cricket

The Board of Control for Cricket in India and the England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB) have announced the venues and dates for India’s upcoming home series against England, adding that due to the ongoing C…
Sponsorship & Marketing Cricket

The England and Wales Cricket Board’s (ECB) new franchise cricket tournament The Hundred has added consumer goods group Unilever to its growing portfolio of sponsors.
Sponsorship & Marketing Cricket

Cricket Australia has signed an innovative sponsorship deal with deodorant brand Rexona, reflecting on a year of commercial success in which it claims to have “defied market conditions during a global p…
Attendance Cricket

The Melbourne Cricket Ground will be permitted 30,000 fans a day during the five-day Boxing Day Test match between Australia and India, Victoria Sports Minister Martin Pakula has confirmed
Events Cricket

Two major cricket tours have been scheduled for early next year, with England to visit Sri Lanka and, for the first time since 2007, South Africa to tour Pakistan
Events Cricket

England’s One Day International series against South Africa has been stopped due to concerns over the mental and physical health of the players.
Media Cricket

Cricket South Africa has agreed a four-year media rights deal in Australia with pay-television broadcaster Foxtel, running until the end of the 2023-24 southern hemisphere cricket season
Business Cricket

The Board of Control for Cricket in India will discuss the addition of two new franchise teams to the Indian Premier League T20 tournament in 2021 at its annual general meeting later this month
Industry Moves Cricket

The board of New Zealand Cricket has elected Martin Snedden as its new chairman
Sponsorship & Marketing Cricket

The England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB) has signed up online automotive retailer Cazoo as Principal Sponsor of The Hundred
Events Cricket

The World Test Championship could be discontinued with new International Cricket Council chairman Greg Barclay not convinced the current model is fit for purpose
Finance & Law Cricket

Knight Riders Group, the owners of Indian Premier League franchise Kolkata Knight Riders, has become significant stakeholders in Major League Cricket, representing a potentially major boost to the growth…
Finance & Law Cricket

Australian broadcaster Seven West Media has filed court papers seeking access to correspondence between Cricket Australia, the Board of Control for Cricket in India, Foxtel and other parties as part of…
Sponsorship & Marketing Cricket

The Mumbai-based ITW Playworx agency has been chosen to market and sell central sponsorships and in-stadia advertising rights to the Abu Dhabi T10 League
Sports Betting Cricket

Sports data and technology company Stats Perform has retained one of its key cricket clients in a new agreement with the sport’s governing body in New Zealand.
Media Cricket

Streaming platform LIVENow has broadened its cricket portfolio by acquiring rights to the new Lanka Premier League tournament