Summary
FORMER Culture Secretary Chris Smith today indicated that English cricket chiefs had broken a "gentleman's agreement" to keep live test cricket on terrestrial TV with their new Pounds 220million exclusive deal with Sky.
But Lord Smith admitted during a parliamentary hearing into the controversial deal that the 1998 agreement with former England and Wales Cricket Boards (ECB) chair Lord MacLaurin was not "legally binding".See the full content of this document
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Smith Tv Deal Broken by Ecb
Smith agreed to remove cricket from the A-list of protected sporting events guaranteed free-...
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