BURY’s Carabao Cup tie with Sunderland has been moved to Thursday, August 10 and will be shown live on Sky Sports.

The Shakers will receive a financial boost of £75,000 for playing in front of the TV cameras.

More than 4,000 tickets are expected to be allocated to the Championship side so the club should also benefit from a significant rise in ticket sales.

And the friendly match between the two clubs, scheduled for Friday, July 7, will go ahead as planned.

“When the draw was made we did speak to Sunderland and discussed the friendly but we decided to go ahead with it as it is a good fitness exercise,” manager Lee Clark told Bury Times.

“Sunderland will be just coming back from a training camp and it is the day before we go on ours.

“It will be a maximum of 45 minutes for the players with lots of changes, which means there will be a lot of good players on show.

“When the cup tie comes around it will be completely different because they will have a different management team and possibly a different squad.

“Sunderland are the highest ranking team you can get at this stage so it was a great draw for us. They have fantastic fans and should bring big numbers.”

The rearrangement means Bury’s league trip to Wigan has been pushed back a day to Sunday, August 13.