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Test cricket is almost always played as a series of matches between two countries, with all matches in the series taking place in the same country (the host). Often there is a perpetual trophy that is awarded to the winner, the most famous of which is the Ashes contested between England and Australia.
1938. On 24 June, the BBC broadcasts cricket - England vs Australia at Lord’s - on television for the first time.; 1956. 28 April - ITV, at that point only available in the London area and in the Midlands, shows cricket for the first time, when it broadcasts the Australian touring team's match against the Duke of Norfolk's XI at Arundel Castle.
BBC Sport is the sports division of the BBC, providing national sports coverage for BBC television, radio and online.The BBC holds the television and radio UK broadcasting rights to several sports, broadcasting the sport live or alongside flagship analysis programmes such as Match of the Day, Test Match Special, Ski Sunday and Today at Wimbledon.
[citation needed] Live cricket had been broadcast since 1927, but originally it was thought that Test match cricket was too slow for ball-by-ball commentary to work. However, Seymour de Lotbiniere , who was responsible for live sports coverage and who went on to become head of outside broadcasts at the BBC, realised that ball-by-ball commentary ...
June – With the resumption of play in the 2019–20 Premier League due to the COVID-19 pandemic in the United Kingdom, the Premier League announces that it will show all remaining matches on British television, split primarily across Sky, BT, and Amazon, with four matches shown on the BBC. It is the first time in 32 years that the BBC has ...
The 2024 ICC Men's T20 World Cup was the ninth edition of the ICC Men's T20 World Cup, a biennial T20I tournament held between men's national cricket teams, organized by the International Cricket Council (ICC). It was co-hosted by the West Indies and the United States from 1 to 29 June 2024. [1] [2]
The Pakistan women's team toured England in May to play three Women's One Day International (WODI) and three Women's Twenty20 International (WT20I) matches. England won the WT20I series 3–0 before a 2–0 victory in the WODI series with one match abandoned. [9] The WODI series formed part of the 2022–2025 ICC Women's Championship.
In 2018, she was a commentator for Sky Sports for the England/Pakistan Test matches, [26] and was named as a commentator for Fox Cricket for their Australian cricket coverage. [27] She was also a member of the commentary team at the 2019 Cricket World Cup. [28] In 2020 she was the lead presenter of a new BBC TV Test and ODI cricket highlights show.