showing tests on terreestrial tv would mean too great a loss in income say ECb

Chris Stocks finds the ECB believes they have the balance right between income and reach as England star Graeme Swann laments cricket’s loss of visibility

When cricket dominated the English sporting scene: the victorious Ashes team take an open-top bus ride through London in 2005
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Tom Harrison has insisted it was impossible to return Test cricket to terrestrial TV when the ECB negotiated their new bumper £1.1billion broadcast deal that will run from next year.
The lucrative agreement will see some cricket broadcast on free-to-air platfo...

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