BT Sport to broadcast 2021/22 men's and women's Ashes

The broadcaster has renewed its UK rights deal to broadcast Australia’s men’s and women’s home internationals until 2025, including exclusive rights to four England tours over the next four years

BT Sport will broadcast the 2021/22 men’s and women’s Ashes series.

The broadcaster, who provided the coverage of the 2017/18 Ashes, has renewed its UK rights deal to broadcast Australia’s men’s and women’s home internationals until 2025.

The deal includes exclusive rights to England’s ODI and T20I tours scheduled for 2022.

Upcoming white-ball tours of Australia by New Zealand and Sri Lanka, both of which are scheduled for February 2022, will also be shown across BT's channels.

In addition to Australia’s home internationals, BT Sport has exclusive rights to New Zealand’s men’s and women’s home internationals and West Indies men’s and women’s domestic and international cricket, including the Caribbean Premier League.

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Simon Green, head of BT Sport, said: "We loved bringing the highs, lows and controversy of the Ashes to our viewers in 2017/18 and relish the opportunity to bring our viewers all the action from both a men’s and women’s Ashes in 2021/22.

"BT Sport’s cricket content has continued to grow since we signed our first rights deal with Cricket Australia, and we are delighted to be bringing more world class men’s and women’s cricket from Australia to fans across the UK."

The men’s Ashes is due to begin in Brisbane on December 8, 2021 with the fifth and final Test scheduled to finish on January 18, 2022. The women’s Ashes begins on January 27, 2022 with a Test match in Canberra followed by three T20Is and three ODIs.

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