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The BBC shows a live First Division football match for the final time as coverage of football's top division moves in its entirety - both live and recorded - to ITV for the new season. Consequently, Match of the Day ends as a weekly programme. Summer – The BBC announces that it will end all coverage of darts apart from the World Championships ...
27 April – Sunday Cricket begins broadcasting a match each week from the new Sunday League. [8] 1972. A new one-day competition, the Benson & Hedges Cup, begins and the BBC provides live coverage of a match from each round. 1975. 7–21 June – The BBC shows extensive live coverage of the first Cricket World Cup.
Twice, teams have won successive tournaments: the West Indies won the first two editions ( 1975 and 1979) and Australia won three in a row ( 1999, 2003, and 2007 ). Australia has played in the most finals (eight out of thirteen: 1975, 1987, 1996, 1999, 2003, 2007, 2015, and 2023 ). England has lost the most World Cup finals, ending as runner-up ...
OneRepublic (2019/20-2022/23) Final Score is a BBC Television football news and results programme produced by BBC Sport. The programme is broadcast on late Saturday afternoons in England, Wales and Northern Ireland, usually on BBC One. BBC Northern Ireland opts away during the last ten minutes to cover local results in Final Score from Northern ...
Andrew Mark Chapman (nicknamed Chappers) (born 11 October 1973) is a British television and radio sports presenter. He is BBC Sports ' chief rugby league presenter, fronting BBC's coverage of the Rugby League World Cup and RFL Challenge Cup matches. [ 1] He also does significant football coverage, presenting Match of the Day 2 on BBC One and ...
Gary Lineker. Gary Winston Lineker OBE ( / ˈlɪnəkər / LIN-ə-kər; born 30 November 1960) is an English sports broadcaster and former professional footballer. Lineker is the only player to have been the top goalscorer in England with three clubs: Leicester City, Everton and Tottenham Hotspur. He also played for Barcelona in Spain, and won ...
The Cricket World Cup (officially known as ICC Men's Cricket World Cup) [ 3] is the international championship of One Day International (ODI) cricket. The event is organised by the sport's governing body, the International Cricket Council (ICC), every four years, with preliminary qualification rounds leading up to a finals tournament.
County Championship. The County Championship, currently known for sponsorship reasons as the Vitality County Championship [3] is the domestic first-class cricket competition in England and Wales and is organised by the England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB). It became an official title in 1890.