ECB renews Sky Sports television deal from 2014-2017

The England and Wales Cricket Board has announced a new broadcasting agreement with Sky Sports running from 2014 until 2017, with an option to extend for a further two years until 2019.

Sky will show all England's home Tests, one-day and Twenty20 internationals live, as well as some England Lions games and women's internationals.

Meanwhile, Channel 5 will show highlights until at least 2017.

Last week, the ECB unveiled a new six-year radio deal with BBC Sport. 

ENGLAND'S HOME SERIES

  • 2012: West Indies, Australia (ODIs only), South Africa
  • 2013: New Zealand, Australia
  • 2014: Sri Lanka, India
  • 2015: New Zealand, Australia
  • 2016: Sri Lanka, Pakistan
  • 2017: West Indies, South Africa
  • 2018: Pakistan, India
  • 2019: Australia

Source: ICC Future Tours Programme (fixtures subject to change)

Test Match Special will continue to broadcast ball-by-ball commentary on all England's home games on BBC 5 live sports extra, BBC Radio 4 Long Wave and via the BBC Sport website.

On the same day as the Sky deal, which also includes 60 days of domestic cricket, the ECB announced that it had renewed its agreement with Channel 5 covering TV highlights for England's home games for a further four-year period.

The ECB statement says that the new TV and radio deals mean that "broadcasting agreements for the next contractual cycle will deliver an overall increase in revenues compared with the previous four-year period."

But there will still be no live cricket on terrestrial television, which has been the situation since Sky took over from Channel 4 in 2006.

In 2009, a review led by former Football Association executive director David Davies recommended that England's home Ashes Tests should return to the "crown jewels" list of events protected for free-to-air television. 

But the ECB described the Davies review as "deeply, deeply flawed" and warned of redundancies among county players  if the review were to be adopted.

The 2010 UK general election meant that plans to revise the "crown jewels" list were delayed,  while following the change of government, incoming Sports Minister Hugh Robertson then announced that any decision on the list would be delayed until 2013.