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19th December 2008

The chairman of the England and Wales Cricket Board has criticised the BBC’s deal to broadcast coverage of the FIA Formula One World Championship in the UK in 2009 rather than making a bid for the rights to broadcast test match cricket.

In the Wisden Cricketer magazine ECB chairman Giles Clarke said, "It was extraordinarily disappointing that we should end up with a situation where tax-payers' money is being spent to pay for tax exiles to drive around a motor track on the other side of the world. I think it is thoroughly unattractive.

"Is that what tax-payers' money should be spent on? I don't think so and, as I have said, how many people [take part in] Formula One? The BBC could have used that money to buy two Twenty20 internationals a year."

In the 2004 the ECB signed an exclusive deal for live coverage of test cricket with the satellite television company Sky.

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