from the West Indies, which will no doubt please local cricket fans eagerly awaiting the upcoming Test series involving England.

Since 1990, local fans bave been able to see the world champions live against England, Australia and Pakistan in thrilling series.

Sky Sports will be beaming the matches to various countries and yesterday Bermuda Broadcasting Company's Television Programme Director Jannell Ford confirmed that all five one-day internationals and five Tests would be seen live, starting on February 16 with the first one-day match in Barbados.

She said all the one-day matches would be seen in their entirety while the Test matches would be shown after tea in midweek and all day on Saturday and Sundays.

The one-day matches are scheduled to start at 10.05 a.m. (Bermuda time) except the second match in Jamaica which will begin an hour later. Coverage will continue until 6.05 and 7.05 (for the Jamaica match).

The Test matches that will be shown after tea will get underway on local television at 3.05, with Jamaica again being the exception, starting an hour later.

The Sky commentary team will include Tony Cozier, former West Indies fast bowler Michael Holding and former England batsmen Geoffrey Boycott and David Gower. The presenter is Charles Colvile.

To make the live coverage possible Sky will be using their own DC10 plane to transport 12 tons of equipment around the islands. That includes eight cameras and a four ton generator. Between the fourth and fifth Tests in Barbados and Antigua they have just three days to dismantle the equipment, fly it to Antigua and assemble it.

Of the 240 hours of cricket Sky will be showing live, fans in Bermuda will be able to see 155 hours of cricket on Channel 7. That works out to be 15 full days and 15 after tea days of coverage.

To make it all possible Sky will be using a production team of 30 technicians, including another 15 backroom staff in London.