ECB pin Ashes broadcasting hopes on Conservatives win in the General Election

By Paul Kelso, Chief Sports Reporter Published: 8:45AM GMT twenty-four February 2010

Standing firm: Giles Clarke, the ECB chairman, does not wish to move to free-to-air radio Photo: PA

The ECB authority Giles Clarke has been fighting proposals to force it to sell the eventuality to free-to-air television, and on Monday night he listened Tory sports orator Hugh Robertson prove that a Conservative supervision would not have the commentary of a examination by David Davies.

"When the examination was launched the calculation was done that there were an horrible lot of votes in returning cricket to free-to-air," Robertson said. "Now people are only waking up to the actuality that 80 per cent of the ECBs income comes from promote income and if you take that afar you are going to decimate utterly a lot of investment thats left in to womens cricket and the grassroots. At a time when the open purse is underneath larger vigour than ever prior to thats a brave, if not a really foolish, call to make."

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Robertson was vocalization at a Sports Journalists Association discuss in between the 3 main parties sports spokesmen at that there was a distinguished accord on the vital hurdles for sport, though not on how to broach them.

Robertson pronounced that a Conservative administration department would move the 3 publicly-funded bodies, UK Sport, Sport England and the Youth Sport Trust, underneath one roof.