The SABC's embarrassing treatment with paltry cricket coverage of the national cricket team continues with the SABC which will again not be showing any live broadcasts of the upcoming international cricket tour of the Proteas against Pakistan.
The SABC only accepted a daily "highlights package" in a deal with Cricket South Africa (CSA) for the international tour, the first test of three which starts on Friday.
In December the SABC - pleading poverty - finally inked some kind of a deal with CSA to show the T20 matches and one day international matches live on SABC3.
The rest of the test matches in February and in March will not be broadcast live but will consist out of highlight packages shown in the afternoon and then again late at night on SABC3.
SABC3 will also do some live crossings during the day for at least the first test and which could be extended later to the others.
"Although we could not reach an agreement on live ball-by-ball coverage of the Test Series, we are satisfied that there is an increase in coverage compared to the New Zealand series," says Marc Jury, CSA commercial manager.
"We will definitely be looking at how best to manage our free to air broadcast rights going forward to ensure that all South Africans are able to watch the Proteas when playing at home," says Marc Jury.
