National Communications Network (NCN) Marketing Manager Raymond Azeez said yesterday that the network has made valiant attempts without success to provide coverage of the 2015 Cricket World Cup tournament which begins on February 14 in Australian and New Zealand.
During a brief telephone interview yesterday, Azeez confirmed with Stabroek Sports that he has indeed been in constant contact with the tournament’s rights holder, Entertainment and Sports Programming Network (ESPN) about forging a possible way forward with regards to the broadcast of the tournament live on television.
“We would have been trying to contact CMC and IMC Sports Max, the two regional broadcasters who would bring sports to