Sky And BBC Join Forces For Cricket World Cup

The BBC and Sky have announced that they will be sharing live coverage of the cricket World Cup – to be staged in the UK next year.

Sky Sports and the BBC will share TV coverage of the 42-match tournament to be staged in May and June of 1999 while BBC Radio will also broadcast commentary and updates on the games.

During the 30-match group stage of the tournament coverage will alternate between Sky Sports and the BBC. Coverage of the nine-match Super Six stage, which will determine the semi-finals, will be shared in a ratio of five matches to Sky Sports and four to BBC. Each broadcaster will broadcast one semi-final.

The final, on 20 June 1999, will be shown live on both Sky Sports Television and BBC Television and broadcast on BBC Radio.

The English Cricket Board also announced that it had secured three Global Partners for the event – Vodafone, NatWest and Pepsi-Cola – and hoped to reveal the names of two further Partners in the next few weeks.

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BBC TV: 0181 743 8000 BSkyB: 0171 705 3000