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Industry Moves

Indian Premier League cricket team Rajasthan Royals chief executive Mike Fordham has been appointed to head up the franchise’s holding company, Royals Sports Group.
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Events

The suspended 2021 season of the Indian Premier League will restart in the United Arab Emirates on September 19, the Board of Control for Cricket in India has said
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Events

The Pakistan Cricket Board has agreed on an earlier calendar slot of January-February for the 2022 Pakistan Super League, along with discussing what will be a new commercial rights cycle for the Twenty20…
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Media

Australian pay-television broadcaster Foxtel is broadcasting The Hundred, the England and Wales Cricket Board’s (ECB) new-limited overs competition, on its free streaming platform Kayo Freebies.
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Marron Media, the Australia-based sports media agency co-founded by former International Cricket Council media rights manager Lara Richards, has been appointed to distribute the international broadcast…
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Sponsorship & Marketing

Barbados’s pre-eminent cricket stadium, the Kensington Oval, is in search of its first naming rights sponsor.
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Cricket Australia has hired international sports marketing agency Octagon to serve as its exclusive media rights advisor in the United States, Canada, and Caribbean markets.
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Pay-television broadcaster Sony Pictures Networks has reached an agreement with Facebook and Twitter, enabling the social media platforms to show highlights and clips from the Indian cricket team's forthcoming…
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Online streaming platform FanCode has acquired exclusive rights in India to The Hundred, the England and Wales Cricket Board’s (ECB) new limited-overs competition.
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Events

Harry Eckersley, senior group marketing executive for CSM Sport and Entertainment, the exclusive commercial agency for The Hundred, argues the success of competitions like Kerry Packer’s World Series Cricket and the IPL show that the ECB's new 100-ball competition will thrive - in spite of scepticism from the media
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Australian pay-television broadcaster Foxtel acquired the media rights for the Australian cricket team's tour of the West Indies that began on Saturday
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Governance

Anurag Thakur, the former president of the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI), has been appointed as the minister of youth and sports in India
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Data

Sports data and technology company Stats Perform has signed a four-year extension to its official data agreement with the England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB)
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Governance

The International Cricket Council (ICC) has announced that chief executive Manu Sawhney will leave the organisation with immediate effect
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Sponsorship & Marketing

Bangladeshi sports news and betting information website Baji has become the co-sponsor of the Ispahani Cricket Series 2021 between Bangladesh and Zimbabwe
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Sponsorship & Marketing

The England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB) has signed a new deal with the Lego Group along with broadcast partner Sky Sports to promote the sport during the inaugural edition of The Hundred
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Events

The International Cricket Council has received proposals from 17 member nations to host men's one-day international and T20 events in the next cycle, 2024 to 2031
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Media

European Cricket Network, the media platform of the European Cricket League and European Cricket Series, has agreed a content deal with direct-to-customer video platform Recast