THE CRICKET-WATCHING DREAMS of the region are back on stream after the Caribbean Media Corporation (CMC) stalled an attempt by the West Indies Cricket Board (WICB) to prevent them from showing the Digicel Home Series 2008.

The opening Test of the series bowls off today at Sabina Park, Jamaica, but regional broadcast of the match between Australia and the West Indies looked in doubt after correspondence between WICB and CMC threatened to derail the live telecast.

The WICB had allegedly threatened the broadcast rights of CMC.

However, attorneys Paula Lett and Dyon Scarlett, acting for CMC's commercial and new business development manager Michael Alexander Whyte, brought an ex-parte summons to the court challenging the correspondence.

Yesterday, Justice Jacqueline Cornelius granted an injunction restraining the WICB from "taking action by any means whatsover to restrain [CMC] from transmitting radio broadcast i.e. 'over the air' terrestrial signal, whether digital or analog which is capable of being broadcast".

"What this means," said Lett, "is that this should enable CMC to broadcast the cricket by radio tomorrow [today]."

The match, which will also be shown live on television, begins at 11 a.m. (HLE)