Tnt Sports Secures Live Rights To England’s Ashes Series In Australia

England’s effort to regain nan Ashes this wintertime will beryllium broadcast unrecorded successful nan UK by TNT Sports. After agreeing a one-year woody pinch Cricket Australia complete nan play TNT now has nan authorities for each of England’s wintertime tours, arsenic nan broadcaster had deals successful spot to screen white-ball bid successful New Zealand and Sri Lanka either broadside of nan Ashes.

TNT’s predecessor, BT Sport, bought nan authorities for nan past 2 Ashes tours truthful nan caller woody whitethorn beryllium inauspicious for Ben Stokes’s broadside arsenic their viewers person not seen England triumph a azygous game. England person mislaid 13 of nan past 15 Tests they person played successful Australia, which shows nan size of nan task for nan touring broadside this winter.

TNT has progressively go nan location of England’s wintertime cricket deals successful caller years and has semipermanent authorities successful spot pinch New Zealand, West Indies and Pakistan, arsenic good arsenic securing a precocious woody to screen England’s five-Test bid successful India past winter.

Unlike that tour, successful which nan erstwhile England players Alastair Cook and Steven Finn provided commentary from a workplace successful nan Netherlands, TNT is readying to nonstop a squad to Australia, though will besides usage sum from nan big broadcaster.

TNT’s power follows a determination from Sky Sports to propulsion backmost from wintertime tours owed to cost-cutting and its attraction connected covering Premier League shot – it will broadcast 215 matches unrecorded this season.

Sky still has nan authorities to International Cricket Council events, specified arsenic nan men’s and women’s World Cup and T20 World Cup, but its only statement for bilateral bid is pinch Cricket South Africa.

TNT’s caller Cricket Australia woody besides includes men’s white-ball bid against South Africa and India, and a multiformat women’s bid against India.

Todd Greenberg, nan Cricket Australia main executive, said: “We’re pleased to widen our longstanding business pinch TNT Sports and that they will again beryllium instrumental successful showcasing nan Australian summertime of cricket to UK audiences.”

England will beryllium hoping to triumph nan Ashes for nan first clip since Cook’s broadside defeated Australia 3-2 astatine location successful 2015. The visitors person not won a Test successful Australia since Andrew Strauss’s broadside triumphed successful Sydney successful January 2011, which sealed a 3-1 bid win, their first down nether since 1987.