The onward march of T20

[akkaps]

Indian boss to take over world cricket amid $4.5 billion TV rights fight

Jay Shah will take over as chair of the International Cricket Council after forcing the resignation of the incumbent Greg Barclay, amid a $US3 billion dispute with its major broadcast rights holder.

www.smh.com.au

Well, ****.

However with the ZeeTV-Sony merger collapsing, ZeeTV has likewise backed out of sub-licensing the ICC rights, leaving Star to foot the entire bill. The company’s discomfort with the cost of winning the rights was underlined by an unsuccessful request, earlier this year, to relocate the T20 World Cup from the USA and the Caribbean to India.

ZeeTV and Star are fighting out the circumstances of their collapsed deal in the London Court of International Arbitration. At the same time, Star is in the process of being sold by Disney to the Indian conglomerate Reliance Industries, which owns the broadcaster Viacom18

 

[swingdog]

Have long said this is how cricket is going to end up.

It will be an Indian game with other countries as feeders, much like baseball in the US.

The T20 World Cup will be played there every year, like the World Series.

 

[sabso]

ICC moving to Dubai was the start of it. Now Cricinfo defaults to the Indian edition and any cricket socials are stuffed with subcontinent spam. It's getting harder to engage with cricket if you're from anywhere else in the world, and that's being made worse with how Test cricket is suffering in most places.

 

[Cleavy]

Samoan cricketer Darius Visser smacks record-breaking 39 runs in one over

39 runs in ONE over: Sydney cricket coach shatters Broad’s unwanted T20 record

www.foxsports.com.au

the ol' boom stick

 

[akkaps]

Just noticed that the East Asia/Pacific Qualifier has been merged with the Asian Qualifier for the 2026 T20 WC. Now it's three spots that will go to the whole Asia and Pacific region. One of the spot will be taken by Nepal, then probably Oman and the UAE or Hong Kong.

Bye bye any chances of PNG or Japan making it to the next T20 WC.
Japan has made some big strides in cricket in the recent few years, disappointed about this.

 

[ioppolo]

Just noticed that the East Asia/Pacific Qualifier has been merged with the Asian Qualifier for the 2026 T20 WC. Now it's three spots that will go to the whole Asia and Pacific region. One of the spot will be taken by Nepal, then probably Oman and the UAE or Hong Kong.

Bye bye any chances of PNG or Japan making it to the next T20 WC.
Japan has made some big strides in cricket in the recent few years, disappointed about this.

The Pacific region is pretty bummed about it. The CEO of Vanuatu voiced his concerns on the emerging cricket podcast and was quite obviously angered whilst remaining calm.