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London, May 1 (TNS): <\/strong>Ireland’s inaugural Test match against Pakistan later this month will be broadcast on Sky Sports, it has been announced.<\/p>\n Subscription channel Sky Sports will have ball-by-ball coverage of the historic match in Malahide near Dublin, due to take place from May 11 to 15.<\/p>\n The Test is also set to be shown on networks in countries including the United States and Australia as part of Cricket Ireland’s largest broadcast package deal.<\/p>\n Irish public-service broadcaster RT\u00c9 has also agreed a deal to show a one-hour highlights programme at the end of each day of the Test.<\/p>\n The two channels will also have live coverage of Ireland’s Twenty20 internationals with India on June 27 and 29.<\/p>\n Ireland and Afghanistan were awarded Test status by the International Cricket Council last June, raising the number of Test-playing nations from 10 to 12.<\/p>\n “This broadcast package is set to break Irish sporting records, as we anticipate that the T20 series against India alone will be the biggest worldwide TV audience of any event – sporting or otherwise – ever staged in Ireland,” Cricket Ireland chief executive Warren Deutrom said.<\/p>\n “Since being confirmed as a full member of the ICC in June 2017, we have seen unprecedented interest in Irish cricket – most notably from a range of potential broadcast partners.<\/p>\n “It’s been an amazing trajectory over the last 10 years.<\/p>\n “From playing in front of a few hundred a few short years ago, to playing last year at Lord’s Cricket Ground in front of 25,000 – and now we are set to take that next step.<\/p>\n “To know so many people around the world are interested in our team should be a moment of pride for everyone connected with Irish cricket.”<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" London, May 1 (TNS): Ireland’s inaugural Test match against Pakistan later this month will be broadcast on Sky Sports, it has been announced. Subscription channel Sky Sports will have ball-by-ball coverage of the historic match in Malahide near Dublin, due to take place from May 11 to 15. The Test is also set to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":63146,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-63144","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63144","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=63144"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63144\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":63147,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63144\/revisions\/63147"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/63146"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=63144"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=63144"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=63144"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}