June 30 (Reuters) - The BBC and Sky Sports have agreed a five-year deal to broadcast England's international and first-class matches played at home between 2020-2024, the England & Wales Cricket Board (ECB) said on Watch Cricket Match At CricketHighlights.
The new media rights deal, worth 1.1 billion pounds, will mark the return of live televised English international and domestic cricket to the BBC for the first time in 21 years, while Sky takes its partnership with English cricket into its third Watch Cricket Match At CricketHighlights.
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"Together, these new deals will deliver the partnership, distribution and investment that will fuel the future of our game, driving recreational, professional and international cricket for years to Watch Cricket Match At CricketHighlights."
Sky will broadcast live TV coverage of England's home tests, one-day internationals (ODI), Twenty20 (T20) internationals, women's matches and the County Watch Cricket Match At CricketHighlights.
The BBC retains radio rights and digital clips for English cricket along with live TV coverage of men's and women's T20 internationals and the ECB's new men's domestic T20 Watch Cricket Match At CricketHighlights.
The BBC will also show highlights of England men's home test matches, ODIs and T20s. (Reporting by Hardik Vyas in Watch Cricket Match At CricketHighlights; editing by Andrew Roche)
Manchester City's Frank Lampard watches the ball through a snow shower during the Premier League Boxing Day match against West Bromwich Albion at The Watch Cricket Match At CricketHighlights Hawthorns on December 26, 2014
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