Bermuda Cricket Board CEO Neil Speight was involved in the International Cricket Council (ICC) meeting prior to the announcing that cricket’s biggest-ever global broadcast partnership by jointly awarding its audio-visual rights for ICC Events from 2015 to 2023 to Star India and Star Middle East.
The decision was made by the ICC Business Corporation (IBC) Board, ICC’s commercial arm, during a meeting at the ICC headquarters in Dubai on Sunday. The decision followed a robust tender, bidding and evaluation process, which started in July 2014. During the process, which involved two rounds of bidding, the ICC received 17 competitive bids from various broadcasters across different territories for its audio-visual rights.
While the final value of the rights fee agreed will not be disclosed, it is significantly in excess of the ICC’s previous commercial deals.
The current cycle has seen ESPN Star Sports hold the audio-visual rights until the contract expires at the end of next year’s ICC Cricket World Cup 2015.
Included in the new eight-year period are 18 ICC tournaments*, including two ICC Cricket World Cups (2019 and 2023), two ICC Champions Trophy tournaments (2017 and 2021) and two ICC World Twenty20 tournaments (2016 and 2020).
The meeting of the IBC Board was attended by the following:
ICC Chairman Narayanaswami Srinivasan ICC President Mustafa Kamal ICC Chief Executive David Richardson Australia Wally Edwards Bangladesh Nazmul Hassan England Giles Clarke India Narayanaswami Srinivasan New Zealand David White* Pakistan Shaharyar Khan South Africa Chris Nenzani Sri Lanka Jayantha Dharmadasa West Indies Dave Cameron Zimbabwe Wilson Manase Associate Member Director (Bermuda) Neil Speight Associate Member Director (Namibia) Francois Erasmus Associate Member Director (Singapore) Imran Khawaja
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