India Tour of WestIndies – INDIA WI LIVE Streaming: The Indian and West Indian squads are now in Florida, USA to play the remaining two T20Is of the five-match T20I series. The fourth T20I will be played on Saturday, August 06 at the Central Broward Park & Broward County Stadium, Lauderhill, Florida. The Rohit Sharma-led side leads the ongoing series 2-1. India won the last T20I match against the hosts by 7 wickets and will look to continue the momentum into the USA leg. In the meantime, the Nicholas Pooran-led side will be trying to mount a strong recovery in the fourth T20I. In a first for Indian cricket, India’s tour of West Indies will not be broadcasted LIVE by any PRIVATE SATELLITE Channel. Rather, three ODIs and five-match T20 series will just be LIVE Streamed by Dream11 parent entity owned OTT platform FanCode. The Sports OTT platform now has partnered with DD Prasar Bharti to broadcast the matches LIVE on DD Freedish: Follow IND vs WI LIVE updates with InsideSport.IN
- The second game will begin at 8:00 PM on Saturday, August 06.
- India lead the 5-match series 2-1.
- India thrashed the West Indies 3-0 in the ODI series before to the ongoing T20I series.
- This is for the first time after a very long time that matches involving Indian cricket will be broadcasted on a Free to Air (FTA) platform.
- The three T20Is were hosted across Trinidad and Tobago and St Kitts & Nevis, and the final two T20Is are scheduled for Lauderhill, Florida in the USA.
India Tour of West Indies: For first time ever ‘No Private Satellite channel’ but DD & FanCode to exclusively broadcast India vs West Indies SERIES: Follow IND vs WI LIVE
INDIA WI LIVE Streaming: It is worth noting that since the start of Cable & Satellite Television era, it will be the 1st time that series will not be available for broadcast on PRIVATE SPORTS NETWORKS.
FanCode being the CWI partner has decided to EXCLUSIVELY Stream the series on their platform.
Prasar Bharati CEO Mayank Kumar Agrawal said, “Cricket is the undisputed leader in sports & entertainment in India. Even in the fast-growing digital age, there continues to be a significant market and audience for sports consumption on television, and we are glad to bring the upcoming India tour of the West Indies to the masses through DD Sports. While FanCode is building a unique digital experience for sports fans, their extension of rights to DD Sports will mean wider access to all sports fans for the series.”
FanCode co-founder Prasana Krishnan said, “DD Sports’ reach in smaller cities and towns is unbeatable, making it the ideal platform to televise the India tour of West Indies, while we continue to build a superior digital experience for fans nationally.”
India West Indies Series not on PRIVATE CHANNELS: The series for the record will be absent on private channels.
Normally DD only airs India cricket on Freedish for which content sharing by the rights holder is mandatory. In this case, the rights holder is a subscription-based digital platform that does not have a TV channel.
Last year, FanCode had inked a deal with the West Indies Cricket Board (WICB) to air the series until 2024. During the rights period, India is also scheduled to make another visit to the West Indies besides the upcoming series.
Other teams who will visit the West Indies in the rights period for cricket series include England, Australia, South Africa and Pakistan. Earlier, WICB rights were with Sony Pictures Networks India (SPNI).
FanCode decided to go after consolidated rights (TV+Digital) as it wants to grow its subscriber base. It has been learnt that the rates on DD Sports are Rs 3 lakh for a spot on ODIs and Rs 5 lakh for the Twenty20 Internationals. Vin Global Media is the sales agent that is selling the series on DD Sports to advertisers. Ad revenue is the norm and will be shared 75:25 in favour of the rights holder who in this case is FanCode.
Check out the full schedule of the tour here:
India Tour of West Indies Schedule
ODIs
1st ODI: July 22 (Queens Park Oval, Port of Spain) – India WON by 3 RUNS
2nd ODI: July 24 (Queens Park Oval, Port of Spain) – India WON by 2 wickets
3rd ODI: July 27 (Queens Park Oval, Port of Spain) – India WON by 119 RUNS
T20Is
1st T20I: July 29: (Brian Lara Stadium, Port of Spain) – India WON by 68 RUNS
2nd T20I: Aug 1 (Warner Park, St Kitts & Nevis) at 11 PM – West Indies WON by 5 wickets.
3rd T20I: Aug 2 (Warner Park, St Kitts & Nevis) – India WON by 7 wickets.
4th T20I: Aug 6 (Broward County Ground, Florida, USA)
5th T20I: Aug 7 (Broward County Ground, Florida, USA)
India T20 Squad WI: Rohit Sharma (C), I Kishan, KL Rahul*, Suryakumar Yadav, D Hooda, S Iyer, D Karthik, R Pant, H Pandya, R Jadeja, Axar Patel, R Ashwin, R Bishnoi, Kuldeep Yadav, B Kumar, Avesh Khan, Harshal Patel, Arshdeep Singh.
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