CB, I got Direct TV earlier this year thru a Direct TV retailer, Desi2home. The promotion was the free cricket ticket 2009 (original price $300). I watched IPL, T20 World Cup, Champions Trophy, Champions League, Windies Australia series for free. Currently they are showing Saffies/England series and starting from next week Pakistan/Australia till Feb 2010.
The deal was awesome considering that I purchased regular American channels (which I have to buy anyways) on direct tv and got a pretty expensive cricket package for free.
Hopefully the retailer will offer simiar deal for 2010 package. However the condition is that you muct be a first time direct tv customer.
Dish network cricket now sucks big time. They used to cover almost every Pakistan series several years ago but not anymore. Unfortunately I still have to keep Dish because of Pakistani channels. I have told Direct TV customer support people several times that they need to somehow get major Pakistani and Indian channels and the entire south asian community of North America will get Direct TVand dump Dish.
thank you Fkhan, this is what I was looking for (i.e. Desi2home),, yes, I am going to be a new customer. If they through something like that for next year I am gonnna jump in immediately.
PS: Can you verify if the site is still up.. I think its not working any more..