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Sky wins UK b'cast rights for England's white-ball series in India

SportzPower Team
Feb 22, 2021 17:02

LONDON: Sky Sports will show exclusive live coverage of England's ODI and T20 series against India in March with seamer Stuart Broad part of the commentary team.

Broad will join Dinesh Karthik, David Lloyd, Nasser Hussain, Michael Atherton, Ian Ward, Ebony Rainford-Brent and Rob Key during the series, which consist of five T20Is and three ODIs.

The first T20I takes place on March 12 in Ahmedabad with the ODI series starting on March 23 in Pune.

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