ISLAMABAD, Nov 28: Pakistan Television (PTV) will after all be telecasting live the one-day International series against New Zealand that starts on Saturday.

After the Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) announced last month it had awarded the telecasting rights for the series to the Dubai-based satellite channel Geo, the state-run PTV cried foul.

But PTV’s managing director, Akhtar Viqar Azim told Dawn on Friday, that PTV will definitely telecast the One-day Internationals against Black Caps live as they had also been given the rights to relay the signals.

PTV had claimed that being a terrestrial set-up it had the rights to show the matches having more than 90 per cent viewers as compared to less than ten per cent reach of the satellite channel awarded rights by the PCB.

The first game of the five-match series is to be played on Saturday in Lahore.