Pakistan Cricket Board Restricted Bidders for DRS to get BroadCasting rights
Pakistan Crciket borad who will complete the bid process today for the umcpming series against South Africa and Sri Lanka in UAE, is very much concerned for DRS.
Both the cricketing nations are very much concerned about DRS and need to use during T20, ODI and Test series who will host by UAE in third and fourth quarter of the year 2013 source close to PCB BID Committee said.
“The PCB wants to have DRS in the Test and One-day series against South Africa and Sri Lanka as both countries are keen on this technology,” a source close to a broadcaster also confirmed.
” Use of DRS will costs around USD 300,000 extra to the broadcasters for both series besides while the production costs of around two million dollars,” Broad caster concerned.
The Indian News maker group NDTV sports reveled story about bidding process as under in which means the process is not upto the mark as per their talk with the source of broadcaster want to buy the broadcast rights.
He added the PCB had not made it clear as yet whether the broadcaster would have to provide facilities for just the snickometre and hawkeye in the DRS or they would also have the controversial hotspot technology, which will increase the costs of broadcasters further.
The PCB has decided to sell broadcasting rights of the two series as a separate venture instead of entering into a long-term four or five-year deal with a broadcaster for Pakistan cricket rights.
“The long-term deal will be done later because of shortage of time and for now we are selling rights of just these two series as our long-standing contract with Ten Sports expired in June,” the source said.
Another source in the board told PTI that the bid committee, which is overseeing the whole process under the supervision of former ICC Chairman, Ehsan Mani, and also includes a Supreme Court retired judge, will open technical bids of interested broadcasters in Lahore today.
“Later in the evening the financial bids will also be opened and the highest bidder which is over or meets the reserve price set by the committee will get the rights,” he said.
The PCB is looking to earn around USD 10 to 15 million dollars from the rights of the two series which include a total of six tests, ten one-day internationals and four T20 matches and a one-off game against Afghanistan.
