Sports Desk- The ICC have announced the broadcast and digital distribution plans for the Cricket World Cup 2019, providing with the widest range of platforms to the cricket fans in the world to access the tournament across television, radio and digital platforms, as well as news, in cinemas, at Fan Parks and via other media rights partners.
The Cricket World Cup 2019 will be broadcast live to more than 200 countries via 25 broadcast partners with the support from ICC Global Broadcast Partner, Star Sports.
Seven Indian languages broadcast
In India, this tournament will be broadcast in seven regional languages, for which Star Sports has created a team of best commentators in the world. Including about 50 commentators. With English, this World Cup will be broadcast by Star Sports in Hindi, Tamil, Telugu, Kannada, Bangla and Marathi in India along with Malayalam via Asianet Plus.
Cricket World Cup variance in Afghanistan
The Cricket World Cup will be broadcast for the first time in Afghanistan. The country’s Official broadcaster radio televisions Afghanistan will broadcast it. About 30 million viewers in India and the Indian subcontinent will be able to see World Cup matches on Star Sports’s digital streaming platform Hotstars.
Around the world, the ICC Cricket World Cup 2019 will be broadcast on Star Sports (India and the rest of the Indian Sub-continent), Sky Sports (United Kingdom & Republic of Ireland), SuperSport (South Africa and Sub-Saharan Africa), OSN (Middle East & North Africa), Fox Sports Australia and Channel 9 (Australia), Willow TV (USA), Sky TV and Prime (New Zealand), Ten Sports and PTV (Pakistan), ESPN (Caribbean), Gazi TV, Maasranga and BTV (all Bangladesh), SLRC (Sri Lanka) and Fox Network Group (China and South East Asia), Digicel (Asia Pacific), Radio Television Afghanistan (Afghanistan) and Yupp TV (Continental Europe and Central Asia).