By Jon Couch
BBC Test Match Special has secured rights to broadcast ball-by-ball coverage of the ICC Cricket World Cup 2019, to be held in England and Wales next year.
It forms part of a longterm deal with Channel 2, ICC’s Global Audio Rights Partner, who hold exclusive rights to sublicense audio rights to ICC events until 2023.
The deal will ensure that TMS covers all the ICC’s major events through to the 2023 World Cup in India – including the Women’s World Cup in New Zealand in 2021 and the men’s and women’s ICC World Twenty20 events.
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