Sky Sports has confirmed a new deal with the ECB to show live England cricket matches until 2013.
Four more years of cricket on Sky Sports
Sky Sports has been awarded a new deal for live cricket in England and Wales.
The England & Wales Cricket Board has announced a new four-year broadcast deals for the seasons 2010-2013, giving Sky Sports:
TEST MATCHES - exclusive live coverage of all England's Test matches played at home including the West Indies series in 2010 and Ashes series in 2013.
INTERNATIONALS - exclusive live coverage of all One-Day and Twenty20 internationals over the four seasons, plus Women's and Under-19 matches.
TWENTY20 - the Twenty20 Cup and new English Premier League each June in 2010, 2011 and 2012, exclusively live.
COUNTY MATCHES - live coverage from all competitions including the limited-overs Friends Provident Trophy and matches from the County Championship.
The new deal will follow the current arrangement which ends at the close of the 2009 season, after exclusive live coverage of next summer's Ashes series.
Announcing the deal, ECB chairman Giles Clarke said: "The ECB recognise and are grateful for Sky Sports' loyalty to the sport - both at home and when the England team tour overseas.
"We are also grateful for their investment and commitment to the English Premier League Twenty20 competition which will begin in June 2010 and was agreed by the ECB Board at their July meeting."
Vic Wakeling, Managing Director Sky Sports, said: "In all our discussions with the ECB, we have been pleased to hear their 100 per cent commitment to Test cricket at a time when the game is experiencing so many changes, world-wide.
"It was also made clear to us, at the outset of talks, that the ECB would encourage competition for individual Test series, or one-off Test matches.
"Sky has ended up with all the Test matches in each year of this new deal and we shall work with the ECB to give Test cricket the support it deserves. We look forward to many more days of the type of tense and fiercely competitive Test cricket we enjoyed at Edgbaston on Saturday.
"There will be new competitions, of course, and we are delighted that they too will be seen live on Sky Sports. We firmly believe, in this country, there is interest and demand among cricket fans of all ages for all forms of the game.
"We shall continue to offer HD coverage of all games, and to invest in new technology as it is developed.
"I think everyone in the game accepts that there is more experience, quality and variety in our various commentary teams than any broadcaster has ever assembled at any time in the past, and we shall continue to develop programming which, we hope, will appeal to all.
"More and more young people have come to the game - as players and spectators - over the past couple of years, and we shall be working with the ECB to maintain this trend."
Sky Sports first showed live international cricket in 1990; England's series in the West Indies was the first to be shown live ball-by-ball in the UK.
Sky has now broadcast 121 England Tests, shown every Test nation live, covered three World Cups, each of the major County competitions and women's and youth matches. Sky Sports also sponsors the ECB's Coach Education programme which trained 5,500 coaches in its first season.
In the last year
Sky Sports has announced a number of new deals and contract extensions including; UEFA Champions League, Coca Cola League and Carling Cup football; US Open, US PGA Championship, Ryder Cup and PGA European Tour golf; and International and domestic Rugby League including Super League and the 2008 Rugby League World Cup. There are also new deals for motorsport, Speedway, Equestrian events, Netball and British Ice Hockey.
