England
Match scheduled to begin at 14:30 local time (09:00 GMT)
Current time: 11:03 local, 05:33 GMT | Match begins in: 3:27
India squad
MS Dhoni*†, VR Aaron, S Aravind, R Ashwin, G Gambhir, RA Jadeja, V Kohli, P Kumar, PA Patel, AM Rahane, SK Raina, R Sharma, MK Tiwary, R Vinay Kumar, U Yadav
England squad
AN Cook*, JM Bairstow, IR Bell, RS Bopara, SG Borthwick, TT Bresnan, JC Buttler, JW Dernbach, ST Finn, AD Hales, C Kieswetter†, SC Meaker, SR Patel, KP Pietersen, GP Swann, IJL Trott, CR Woakes
Television audiences in India and England were deprived of the first three overs of the opening match of the five-match ODI series between the two teams in Hyderabad, as well as the conventional pre-match programming. The 15-minute blackout of live feed came about as the result of a dispute over the payment of a bank guarantee from broadcaster Neo Sports, a part of Nimbus Communications Ltd, to Prasar Bharati, the government agency responsible for uplinking live telecasts out of India. In a statement released at the end of the Indian innings, Neo Sports stated that an "unreasonable demand" from Prasar Bharti had caused the delay in the uplinking facilities being made available to them.
Early on in the telecast, the delay had been put down to "technical issues" but NeoCricket's mid-match statement alleged that the 2.5-over blackout took place because Prasar Bharati had demanded the payment of a bank guarantee far earlier than had originally been agreed upon in a draft agreement. The Ministry of Information and Broadcasting in New Delhi, which oversees Prasar Bharati, only approved the uplinking facilties just before the start of the first ball.
The lack of television feed meant that for the first 15 minutes of the match there were no live pictures from the Rajiv Gandhi Stadium in Hyderabad to Neo Cricket, the rights holders, to Doordarshan for terrestrial coverage in India, to Sky TV in Britain as well as to the BCCI's website, which promised live streaming. This was India's first fixture at home both after their World Cup victory as well as the disastrous tour of England.
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