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  • Star Sports to telecast Global T20 Canada League in India

    Star Sports to telecast Global T20 Canada League in India

    MUMBAI: Star Sports has inked a deal with Cricket Canada to telecast the Global T20 Canada League in India, a source close to the development told Indiantelevision.com. The network will broadcast the matches on Star Sports 1 and Star Sports 1 HD. Fans can also tune in to the action on Star India’s OTT Hotstar.
    The Global T20 Cricket League, which kick starts on Thursday, will be aired in Canada on Asian Television Network (ATN).  

    Global T20 Canada has also announced TV deals in other countries like the UK (FreeSports), Australia (Fox Sports), Pakistan (Geo Sports), Middle East (Orbit Showtime Network), Bangladesh (Ghazi TV) and the Caribbean (Sportsmax).

    The 22-match tournament opens with the Toronto Nationals taking on the Vancouver Knights and runs through July 15.

    Toronto and Vancouver will be joined by the Winnipeg Hawks, Edmonton Royals, Montreal Tigers and a Cricket West Indies B team. All matches will be played at the Maple Leaf Cricket Club in King City, Ont., just north of Toronto.

    The Global T20 Canada is the brainchild of the Mercuri Group, an India-based media company whose affiliate Mercuri Canada has signed a 25-year deal with Cricket Canada.

    The tournament has drawn 96 players from some 20 countries including Chris Gayle, Andre Russell, Shahid Afridi, Daren Sammy, Lasith Malinga, Steve Smith, Sunil Narine, David Miller and Dwayne Bravo.

    In an official statement Global T20 Canada website, the league’s chairman Gurmeet Singh said, “The schedule reveal is another symbolic step towards bringing the excitement and spectacle of pro Twenty20 cricket to Canada, and making cricket and Canadian sport history. With the calibre of talent coming to Canada, fans will see top international stars in every match from the opener through to the final.”

    Former Australian skipper Smith, along with vice-captain David Warner, made headlines recently for their role in a ball-tampering scandal in South Africa. They were given 12-month bans by Cricket Australia but are allowed to play abroad.

    Smith will play for Toronto while Warner was drafted by Winnipeg.

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  • Sportzworkz chosen by geo super to produce Pakistan vs Sri lanka &Afghanistan cricket series

    Sportzworkz chosen by geo super to produce Pakistan vs Sri lanka &Afghanistan cricket series

    MUMBAI: Sports production house Sportzworkz has bagged its another major international cricket tournament; with GEO Super choosing them to produce the Pakistan-Sri Lanka-Afghanistan cricket series to be played in the United Arab Emirates. The series will be played between December 082013 & January 202014. It features 2 T20s, 5 One Day Internationals and 3 Tests against Sri Lanka and the solitary T20 against Afghanistan.

    The series will be telecast live on Geo Sports in Pakistan, on SONY SIX in India, on OSN Cricket HD in the Middle East and on CSN in Sri Lanka.

    Sportzworkzhas previously been involved in international cricket with the telecast of the Sri Lanka Premier league in 2012. In addition they also provided the live telecast of the Jharkhand Premier League and the Punjab Premier league two domestic cricket events in India in 2010-11. Their first major international cricket event produced by Sportzworkzwas a cricket tri-series in Nairobi in 2004 that featured the A teams of India and Pakistan playing against Kenya. That series launched MS Dhoni into the Indian team.

    Sportzworkzhas over 800 hours of live programming to its credit. This includes prestigious events like the Hockey India league in 2013 for STAR Sports, the NDTV-Toyota University Cricket Championships for STAR Sports, the inaugural Super Fight League in 2011-12 on NEO Sports and the inaugural Golf Premier League 2012 on Sony SIX.

    Gaurav Bahal, Director, Sportzworkz said “we are thrilled to be chosen by Geo Sports as a production partner for this cricket series. Viewers in the sub-continent will get the same high quality telecast that we have previously provided for channels like STAR sports, Sony SIX and TEN Sports.”