Singapore – ESPN International has entered into a cricket distribution agreement for the Caribbean with ESPN STAR Sports (ESS) for International Cricket Council (ICC) events and the Champions League Twenty20 through 2015. The announcement was made by Bernard Stewart, vice president, ESPN Caribbean and Maritime Media.

The ICC agreement is a four-year deal from 2012 to 2015 and covers several ICC events, including the global showpiece of the cricket calendar, the 2015 ICC Cricket World Cup in Australia and New Zealand. ICC programming will be presented on two ESPN Caribbean television networks – ESPN Caribbean and ESPN 2 Caribbean – and on ESPNPlay.com, the region’s recently launched broadband network for live sports programming.

The Champions League Twenty20 agreement extends ESPN’s current three-year deal by three more years covering 2013-2015.  The agreement covers all of ESPN Caribbean’s media platforms including the two networks, ESPN Caribbean and ESPN 2 Caribbean, and ESPNPlay.com.