An independent review of British sport's 'Crown Jewels' is expected to recommend England's home Ashes Tests should be screened on free-to-air television.

The recommendations are the results of an inquiry into Britain's listed events headed by David Davies, the former executive director of the Football Association, and which is due to be published by the Department of Media Culture and Sport at 10am on Friday morning.

However, the move is set to cause conflict with the England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB) who had not seen the review prior to its publication.

As well as the Ashes, it is understood the report will also recommend World Cup and European Championship qualifiers involving home nations be listed live events, plus Wimbledon tennis championship and golf's Open championship. The review is also likely to announce the ditching of the 'B' list for highlights.

The Government is not obliged to follow the recommendations and the ECB will argue vociferously the financial impact would be devastating for the sport which has a £300million deal with Sky.

Cricket chiefs are particularly angry given the BBC has not bid for any packages of live English cricket since 1998.

An ECB spokesman said they had not seen the report, and added: "We have not been given the courtesy of being shown the report ahead of publication."

Cricket chiefs have been saying for some months the whole review has been flawed with no sports right expert included on the review panel, and a failure of the inquiry to commission independent reports on the economic impact of any changes.

The Scottish Football Association meanwhile claims they will lose something in the region of £12million if the cup final is included in the list.

It is also understood it will be recommended horse racing's Derby and rugby league's Challenge Cup final be axed as listed events.

The new proposals have been drawn up after 10 months of hearings, research and input from overseas. The panel's conclusions are expected to be followed by a 12-week period of consultation.

But the culture secretary Ben Bradshaw and the sports minister Gerry Sutcliffe, who will ultimately decide whether to accept the panel's recommendations, will struggle to get any changes on to the statute book ahead of next year's general election.

The review was ordered in December 2008 by Andy Burnham, then the secretary of state for DCMS who was keen to ensure the top major sporting events such as the Olympics were kept on terrestrial television.