TEN Cricket is a 24-hour sports channel

Television channel

A television channel is a physical or virtual channel over which a television station or television network is distributed. For example, in North America, "channel 2" refers to the broadcast or cable band of 54 to 60 MHz, with carrier frequencies of 55.25 MHz for NTSC analog video and...

 dedicated to cricket

Cricket

Cricket is a bat-and-ball game played between two teams of 11 players on an oval-shaped field, at the centre of which is a rectangular 22-yard long pitch. One team bats, trying to score as many runs as possible while the other team bowls and fields, trying to dismiss the batsmen and thus limit the...

. The channel is part of Taj Television India, owned by Zee Entertainment Enterprises which is part of the Essel Group

Essel Group

Essel Group is a media conglomerate company headed by Subhash Chandra based in Mumbai, Maharashtra .The companies under the group are:*Media** Zee Entertainment Enterprises** Zee News** DNA *Technology** Dish TV...

. TEN Cricket was launched on August 10, 2010. TEN Cricket is one of the three channels broadcast by the network, the others being TEN Sports

TEN Sports

TEN SPORTS is a sports channel, widely broadcast in Asia. Its key programming includes Cricket, Football and sports-entertainment shows viz. WWE. Ten Sports was launched on April 1, 2002, and became the world's premier sports channel for South Asians, reaching over 55 million homes across the Arab...

 and TEN Action+. The channel has live broadcast rights of all international cricket held in Pakistan, South Africa, Sri Lanka, West Indies and Zimbabwe. The channel is available in India on Tata Sky

Tata Sky

TATA Sky is a direct broadcast satellite television provider in India, using MPEG-2 digital compression technology, transmitting using INSAT 4A at 83.0°E....

 , Airtel digital TV

Airtel digital TV

Airtel digital TV is an Indian direct broadcast satellite service provider owned and operated by Bharti Airtel. Its satellite service, launched on 2008, transmits digital satellite television and audio to households in India. It uses MPEG-4 digital compression with DVB-S2 technology, transmitting...

 and Big TV

Big TV

Big TV! is the working name of film directors Andy Delaney and Monty Whitebloom. They are employed by DNA, Inc. and are known for their commercials and music videos....

.

On April 13, 2011, TEN Cricket launched on Dish Network

Dish Network

Dish Network Corporation is the second largest pay TV provider in the United States, providing direct broadcast satellite service—including satellite television, audio programming, and interactive television services—to 14.337 million commercial and residential customers in the United States. Dish...

 in the United states.

Events

International Cricket

• International cricket in UAE (Pakistan)
  Cricket in Pakistan
  Cricket has been played in Pakistan since before the birth of the nation in 1947, going as far back as the 19th century. It was introduced by the British during their colonial rule of British India, of which Pakistan was a part. Despite Field hockey being the national sport of Pakistan, cricket is...
  
  
• International cricket in West Indies
  Cricket in the West Indies
  The West Indiescricket is a sporting confederation of over a dozen mainly English-speaking Caribbean countries and dependencies that formed the British West Indies....
  
  
• International cricket in South Africa
  Cricket in South Africa
  Cricket is the third most popular sport in South Africa, and is popular among English-speaking as well as Afrikaans-speaking whites. South Africa is a leading cricket-playing nation in the world, and is one of 10 countries sanctioned by the International Cricket Council to play Test Cricket.It...
  
  
• International cricket in Sri Lanka
  Cricket in Sri Lanka
  Cricket is the most popular sport in Sri Lanka, followed by Football and Rugby Union. Sri Lanka is one of the ten nations that take part in test cricket and one of the five nations that has won a cricket world cup...
  
  
• International cricket in Zimbabwe
  Cricket in Zimbabwe
  Cricket is the most popular sport in Zimbabwe. Zimbabwe is currently a full member of the International Cricket Council .-History:Cricket was introduced to Rhodesia in the 19th century and the Rhodesian Cricket Union was formed in 1898. Rhodesia participated in the Currie Cup, the South African...
  
  

Domestic Cricket

• Stanbic Bank 20 Series

Other Cricket

• Hong Kong International Cricket Sixes
  Hong Kong International Cricket Sixes
  The Hong Kong Cricket Sixes is an annual 10-team international cricket tournament held at the Kowloon Cricket Club and fully sanctioned by the International Cricket Council. The tournament is made for television, with rules and a venue that encourage aggressive batting and high scoring...