England’s much-anticipated Take a look at tour of India will probably be televised within the UK by TNT Sports activities, which has signed a deal to display screen the sequence only a week out from when the primary ball is because of be bowled.
The broadcaster has agreed a five-year contract to solely present India’s residence sequence in all codecs, which incorporates England’s subsequent white-ball journey in early 2025 and one other Take a look at tour at a date to be decided.
The potential of a UK blackout for the upcoming five-match sequence between groups ranked second and third on the earth, beginning on January 25 in Hyderabad, has subsequently been averted.
India stays by far the game’s most profitable market however offers with the nation’s governing physique have usually gone to the wire, with rights distributors desperate to recoup sizeable preliminary outlays.
When England final toured the nation for a Take a look at sequence, in 2021, the same scenario unfolded and resulted in an Eleventh-hour bid from Channel 4 because it made an surprising re-entry into the market.
However with the terrestrial channel pumping sources into this yr’s Paralympics, there was understood to be no real interest in the same transfer this time round, leaving Sky Sports activities and TNT as the opposite retailers.
Sky was the de facto residence of all England excursions between 1990 and 2017 however TNT has proven the final two Ashes sequence in Australia and stepped in to display screen Jos Buttler’s white-ball group within the Caribbean final month.
Having secured this marquee sequence, TNT appears more likely to take the world commentary feed and assemble a studio group within the UK given the quick turnaround. TalkSPORT holds the radio rights.
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