ICC World Cup 2015 Broadcasters TV streaming commentators

By Israr Ahmed Hashmi

Updated - 08 Feb 2015, 21:19 IST

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ICC World Cup 2015 Broadcasters TV streaming commentators: ICC World Cup 2015 is just days away from us now and fans of different countries are worried about their team’s chances this mega event.  However, a bigger worry is to get all the games live on your TV screen. The broadcasting rights were already sold to ESPN Star Sports Network India for a whopping amount of US $2 Billion which in turn, sold it to local TV channels and media-houses of different countries.

Importantly, all the World Cup action will also be available on the internet at Cricket Tracker.

The world cup is expected to be watched by 2.5 billion television audience and the broadcasters and ICC made sure that the fans will get all the action in latest of technologies available. The production of the ICC Cricket World Cup 2015 will be in the High Definition (HD) format and audiences will enjoy the most riveting experience as each and every match will be covered by at least 29 cameras, including Ultramotion cameras, Spidercam at 13 matches and the drone camera at all the knock out matches. Technology in use includes Real Time Snicko and LED stumps. Other innovative features will be introduced for the latter stages of the event. Star Sports, for the first time in the history of cricket, will produce live coverage of seven matches in cutting edge 4K technology, including the semi-finals and the final.

A 30-member team of commentators will provide their expert opinion ball-by-ball and over-by-over. This team includes former players, World Cup winning captains and your favorite cricket presenters. The names include: Wasim Akram, Russell Arnold, Michael Atherton, Ian Bishop, Allan Border, Ian Botham, Simon Doull, Rahul Dravid, Damien Fleming, Sourav Ganguly, Sunil Gavaskar, Matthew Hayden, Michael Hussey, Dean Jones, Nasser Hussain, Brendon Julian, Nick Knight, Brett Lee, David Lloyd, Sanjay Manjrekar, Damien Martyn, Mpumelelo Mbangwa, Tom Moody, Shaun Pollock, Rameez Raja, Mark Richardson, Michael Slater, Ian Smith, Scott Styris, Mark Taylor, Shane Warne, Mark Waugh alongside Harsha Bhogle, Mark Nicholas and Alan Wilkins.

The live broadcast will be available in all 7 continents and country-wise list includes:

Country Television Radio
Afghanistan Ariana TV Network, Lemar TV
Australia Nine Network, FOX Sports ABC Local Radio
Africa Super Sport
Arab & Gulf OSN Sports
Bangladesh Bangladesh TV, Gazi TV, Masranga TV Bangladesh Betar
Bhutan Star Sports (web streaming)
Canada Rogers Communications
Central America Echo Star
China Star Sports
Europe Euro Sports 2
Fiji Fiji TV
India Star Sports Network, DD National All India Radio
Ireland Sky Sports BBC Radio
Jamaica Television Jamaica
Maldives Star Sports (web streaming)
Nepal Star Sports
New Zealand FOX Sports, Prime
Norway NRK 2
Pakistan Ten Sports, PTV Sports 106.2 HUM FM
Singapore Star Cricket
South Africa SA Broadcasting Corporation Super Sport
Sri Lanka CSN, Star Cricket SLBC
UAE Ten Sports HUM FM (Pakistan)
UK/England Sky Sports BBC Radio
USA WatchESPN (web streaming)
West Indies CMC CMC

The ICC has also tied up with news access agencies SNTV, Perform and Thomson Reuters to provide news broadcasters around the world with 90-second match highlights, subject to these highlights being used in bonafide news programmes within 24 hours of end of the relevant match, for editorial purposes only.Most of the information is taken from ICC Press Releases. You can find the original content here.

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