The deal means pubs and clubs subscribing to Sky can enjoy exclusive live coverage of 14 International Cricket Council (ICC) tournaments, offering over 250 days of live cricket between 2015 and 2023.
Sky Business managing director David Rey said: “We’re delighted to be awarded the ICC rights, further strengthening Sky Sports’ cricket coverage to offer pubs and clubs even more unrivalled content for their customers.
“From 2015, Sky Sports will also feature all of England’s home Tests – including next summer’s highly anticipated Ashes series - One Day Internationals and Twenty20 matches, as well as an unprecedented choice of international and domestic coverage from around the world, including new rights to over 60 IPL matches. We’ve never offered our customers such choice from all formats of the game.”
The ICC rights awarded to Sky Sports are:
- World Cup – live coverage of the next two tournaments and qualifiers; from England and Wales in May 2019 and India in February 2023.
- World Twenty20 – live coverage of the next two competitions; from India in March 2016 and Australia in October 2020.
- Champions Trophy – live coverage of the One-Day International tournament to be held in England and Wales in June 2017 and India in October 2021.
- Women’s World Cup – live coverage of the next two Women’s World Cups, to be held in England and Wales in August 2017 and New Zealand in November 2021.
- Women’s World Twenty20 - live coverage of the next two Women’s World Twenty20 competitions; to be held in the West Indies in November 2018 and South Africa in October 2022.
- U19 World Cup – live coverage of the next four events; from Bangladesh in January 2016, New Zealand in January 2018, South Africa in January 2020 and the West Indies in January 2022.