Cricket

[biggie4000]

Sky - please ensure you show the home NZ cricket series from end of November 2020 against west indies, Australia, south Africa and Bangladesh.  It's on Spark sports in nz which we cannot access overseas so please ensure you purchase and show it in the UK

[Doc5907]

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@biggie4000 wrote:

Sky - please ensure you show the home NZ cricket series from end of November 2020 against west indies, Australia, south Africa and Bangladesh.  It's on Spark sports in nz which we cannot access overseas so please ensure you purchase and show it in the UK

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It's highly unlikely these series will be shown on sky sports in the UK as they usually only show series with England participating in. But who knows... i might be wrong.. !

[Chrisee]

@Doc5907 unfortunately not showing in the Sky Cricket published Schedule for the end of November. NZ home games are very difficult in the UK due to the time difference of 13 hours.

[Doc5907]

@Chrisee  Yes I remember watching England in New Zealand last year and games were shown in the small hours.

Suprised to see in the upcoming schedule Sri Lankan domestic cricket. Must be a IPL spin off type thing.

[biggie4000]

Any idea how to possibly get the SPark channel if sky won't have it!??

[Doc5907]

@biggie4000  you could try their website as below .

https://www.sparksport.co.nz/learnmore#PPV

[Mock+King+Jay]

BT Sport now have NZ Cricket as well as Aus. Might be worth another £25 over the holiday period?

Sky still bessies with SuperSport SA, but the current overseas cricket offer is looking thin.

Maybe we will get India/Pakistan home games, WI, Bangladesh???

[biggie4000]

Neither sky nor BT had nz vs west indies but now bt sports have both aus vs India and nz vs Pakistan.  I have forked out the £30 for a month (to be able to record overnight) but their £35 "connection fee " ie read them your viewing card number is such a rip off 

How do you get supersport in the uk!??

[Mock+King+Jay]

Sky Sports (UK, owned by Comcast) seem to have fallen out with Sky Sport (NZ, owned by Murdoch.)

Sky UK carries plenty of cricket and rugby from SA covered by SuperSport.

You can also scroll through the Asian channels on Sky. Star or Sony often have India games, and Pakistan sometimes turn up on Hum Masala, normally a cooking channel.

[Richardr1]

Sky Sports NZ don't have the rights to cricket anymore, so nothing to do with them.

[d2h]

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@Mock+King+Jay wrote:

Sky Sports (UK, owned by Comcast) seem to have fallen out with Sky Sport (NZ, owned by Murdoch.)

Sky UK carries plenty of cricket and rugby from SA covered by SuperSport.

You can also scroll through the Asian channels on Sky. Star or Sony often have India games, and Pakistan sometimes turn up on Hum Masala, normally a cooking channel.

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It has nothing to do with any company 'falling out' with any other company.

UK broadcasters will take the international feed from the host broadcaster - in the case of Sky Sports, they have a lot of SuperSport broadcasts because that is now the only overseas team they have rights to and SuperSport is the host broadcaster, offering pictures worldwide.

Cricket rights are sold by each governing body separately - there is no blanket set of rights that entitle a broadcaster to all matches. At the moment in the UK, the following broadcasters have these rights:

• Sky Sports: England Tests, ODIs and Twenty20s to 2024; Cricket South Africa to 2021
• BT Sport: Cricket Australia and New Zealand Cricket to 2021
• Star Gold/Hotstar: BCCI (India)
• Sony Max: PCB (Pakistan)
• YouTube: Cricket Ireland

Unfortunately, the days of Sky Sports retaining rights to each overseas team are behind us.