The much awaited and the most coveted tournament in Cricket, the CWC 2019 Warm-up matches will be live on Star Sports starting Friday, May 24th, 2019
CWC 2019, the latest version of ODI World Cup is starting this 30th which will see world’s 10 best cricketing countries battling it out to be crowned as Cricket’s champions.
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Star Sports has announced the telecast of all CWC 2019 warm-up games leading up to the mega event. Starting Friday, May 24th the top ten teams start their preparations and acclimatization for the English conditions. The match schedule is such that all the teams will have proper warm-up before their actual matches start at the World Cup.
The teams are already announced by the respective boards and the ICC Cricket World Cup champions will be decided very soon with a neck-to-neck competition that starts May 30. All the teams will be allowed to be match-ready by playing two warm-up games each. India will play against New Zealand and Bangladesh in the warm up matches.
The Host Broadcasters, Star Sports network will telecast the Cricket World Cup 2019 matches and warm up games in English, Hindi, Tamil, Kannada, Telugu, Bengali and Malayalam. Core cricket fans can stay ahead of the game with Star Sports Select Dugout – a bespoke experience using graphics and augmented reality (AR), video based commentary, live demos from cricket experts and deeper fan engagement with responses by experts to Tweets from cricketing enthusiasts.
The Panel of experts, who will be bringing the live telecast of these warm-up games, include some of most regular names in commentary of cricket events– the names include Dean Jones, Scott Styris, Sanjay Manjrekar, Aakash Chopra, etc.
The upcoming edition of the biggest cricket extravaganza on earth, CWC 2019 will allow two matches each to the participating teams in a bid to allow them accustomed the playing conditions in England.