Friday, June 13, 2014

Star Sports network to telecast India-Bangladesh ODI series

The 3-match one-day series between India and Bangladesh will be telecasted live by the Star Network. Former India opener and cricket expert, Aakash Chopra, tweeted that Star will be showing the 3-match ODI series for the Indian viewers.

There were doubts that Indian spectators wouldn't be able to watch the series live as Bangladesh's Gazi TV, which has the rights for cricket in Bangladesh, had approached Star Sports and Sony Six.

Star Sports supposedly made an offer of less than a million dollars (Rs 5 crore) for the three ODIs, which was deemed very less by the Bangladesh broadcaster. Sony Six, on the other hand, didn't show interest due to a hectic FIFA World Cup schedule.


 "Star has offered a less than million dollars for three matches. That is too less in comparison to the cost of the rights," Salahuddin Chowdhury, CFO and head of operations of Gazi Group, told Mirror. "Because of the BCCI's problems with Neo and Ten, we can't sell the rights to them. Unless, something dramatic happens over the next two days, I cannot assure you that the matches will be telecast in India."

"There would be a lot of overlapping time between the World Cup matches and ODIs," Prasanna Krishnan, the chief executive of Sony Six, told the Mirror. "We've a planned a few pre-match shows for the World Cup and we could not have spared our channel for cricket."

Though, it appears that Star and Gazi group have arrived at a deal that will let the Indian audience to watch all the action live. In his tweet, Aakash Chopra has also said  that commentary will be accessible, both in English and in Hindi as well.

India v Bangladesh ODI series will be on Star network. Commentary in both English and Hindi too.

The three ODIs will be played on the 15th, 17th and 19th of June in Dhaka. India has chosen a second-string side having rested seven of its main players including MS Dhoni, Virat Kohli and Ravichandran Ashwin.


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