The World Cup content includes exclusive interviews with the Afghanistan national team players, their profiles, and a match predictor. In a 30-day countdown to the tournament, the BBC News Afghan service in Pashto has been posting a Cricket World Cup question on its social-media platforms each morning and publishing the answer in the evening. The Cricket World Cup in England will give an opportunity for them to be heard in the UK and enhance the already comprehensive coverage of this massive event – part of the BBC’s incredible summer of sport, including also the Women’s World Cup, the African Nations Cup and Wimbledon” The correspondents are great personalities that know the sport – and the players – back to front.
Throughout the tournament, the BBC’s broadcasts from venues in England and Wales include commentary from BBC World Service’s multilingual journalists who will share their insights with the UK audiences as they report the World Cup to millions of fans in India, Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Pakistan, Sri Lanka as well as diaspora audiences around the world.īen Sutherland, Sports Editor for World Service Languages said, “The World Service’s Asian language services have been providing superb cricket coverage for years – and that has only been amplified recently with in-depth reporting and analysis around the Indian Premier League and the Pakistan Super League. The BBC’s services in Bangla, Hindi, Marathi, Pashto, Sinhala, Tamil and Urdu will be adding a new perspective to the Cricket World Cup coverage for fans in the UK and around the world.