DHAKA: The Bangladesh Cricket Board has reportedly sold the TV rights for the upcoming series at home against West Indies to Ban-Tech for BDT179 million ($2.12 million approx).
The floor price BCB set for the rights was BDT126 million ($1.5 million approx)
“Ban-Tech won the rights for being the highest bidder,” Cricbuzz quotes BCB chief executive Nizamuddin Chowdhury as having told reporters. “They have got their own channel or else they can show it through other channels.”
Apart from Ban-Tech, Gazi TV (BCB’s broadcast partner from May 2014 to April 2020) and T-Sports also took part in the bidding process that was held at the BCB headquarters on January 5, which went for 10 rounds.
The cricket website reports that Ban Tech will likely be sub-licensing the worldwide rights for the series to T-Sports, Bangladesh’s first sports channel, which entered the cricketing telecast arena by airing the just concluded Bangabandhu T20 Cup.
However, BCB will wait for ICC’s next future tours programme before looking for their next broadcast partner. “Certainly it is a good deal and we are happy about it. But we have to wait and see where we stand before finalizing any long term deal,” Cricbuzz quotes a BCB official as having said.
West Indies play three ODIs followed by two Test matches, with the series beginning on January 20.
