No One Shows Interest in Broadcasting Bangladesh-Pakistan Series

Sports Desk

The Pakistan cricket team is coming to Bangladesh next week for a three-match T20 series. The matches will be played at the Sher-e-Bangla Cricket Stadium in Mirpur. However, no Bangladeshi TV channel is showing interest in broadcasting the series. The main reason is that the high cost of acquiring broadcast rights cannot be recovered through revenue.

Since the change of power in the country on August 5 last year, the economic shock has intensified. Unable to sell the rights for the series against Zimbabwe, BCB was forced to turn to BTV. This time, the board wanted to sell the rights for the three-match series against Pakistan for 4 crore taka. But no Bangladeshi channel finds it feasible to purchase the rights at such a high price.

Meanwhile, the Indian cricket team was scheduled to visit Bangladesh in August. However, they have postponed the series for at least more than a year. It is also uncertain whether the series will take place even next year. For this reason, no party has yet shown interest in purchasing broadcast rights for the next two years. BCB had issued a tender with a deadline of July 4 to sell the media rights. As no interest was shown by that date, the board lowered the conditions and issued a new tender, but BCB is still not receiving any response.

BCB director Iftikhar Rahman Mithu said, “We will wait for another three or four days. After that, we will decide what to do.”