
Airdate: Australia v Sri Lanka
Seven nabs the exclusive rights to Australia’s tour of Sri Lanka.
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The Seven Network has announced it has secured the exclusive rights to Australia’s tour of Sri Lanka.
Two Test matches and two One Day Internationals will be seen on Seven and 7plus from January 29.
Seven Network Head of Cricket, Joel Starcevic, said: “What this summer has shown us is that Australians absolutely love their cricket, and we cannot wait to deliver even more action as Australia takes on Sri Lanka.
“Following an exhilarating Border-Gavaskar Trophy Series, two of the greatest WBBL and BBL seasons in recent history and the intensity of the current Women’s Ashes Series on home soil, the addition of Australia’s tour of Sri Lanka cements Seven and 7plus Sport as the undisputed home of cricket.
“Before we head to Sri Lanka to witness Steve Smith claim his 10,000th Test run as he captains the Aussie side, this weekend marks a thrilling conclusion to the BBL regular season, setting the stage for a nail-biting race to the Final on Monday, 27 January,” he said.
“But it doesn’t stop there. Adding to the smorgasbord of live and free cricket action, our nation’s most loved team, the Australian women’s cricket team, will face England in a historic Ashes Test at the hallowed MCG over four epic days from Thursday, 30 January, following today’s final ODI and three T20Is.
“There has never been a more exciting time to be a cricket fan in Australia, and you can catch every ball from every BBL Final, the Women’s Ashes and the Australian tour of Sri Lanka live and free on Seven and 7plus Sport – the only place to see it all,” Mr Starcevic said.
Wednesday, 29 January on Seven.
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10 Responses
Seven’s strategy makes sense. The more it covers the game during the non-summer months, the bigger the ratings will be in December/Jan. Like any TV show; you can’t have too big a break between seasons.
“Two Test matches and two One Day Internationals will be seen on Seven”
Quite extraordinary that we get so see men’s ODIs on Seven – FTA doesn’t even show ODIs played in Oz.
I think Fox Cricket does a better job. Im glad we will see the Australian’s in Sri Lanka but why haven’t you guys shown every big bash game here in Australia for people that cannot afford Foxtel
Scott, I believe the reason 7 don’t broadcast all BBL games is simply because foxtel paid more than seven did for the shared telecast (from memory). Why didn’t seven pay more? Both 10 and nine have gone through the bankruptcy process in recent times while seven has avoided (thus far). They have made a decent effort to reduce their debt by 60% or so by selling some assets (mostly print), reducing staff costs and not securing the olympics telecast among other steps.
Because Channel 7 wasn’t happy with the BBL ratings when the last rights agreement was signed. Until the agreement was signed Channel 7 had taken Cricket Australia to court due to the “lack of quality” in the BBL during the COVID years.
David how do you think they will broadcast it? On main channel or 7mate?
I think the first test will overlap with the women’s WAshes test so they might use both but I think for 2nd test & 2 odi it will probably be 7mate because I don’t think they will delay Idol.
Maybe 7 from 3:30-5pm
7mate from 5pm to 9pm (during Chase, News, H&A & Idol)
7 from 9pm to 10:30pm close of play
Unless they are going to launch Idol when survivor starts because they aren’t confident of it’s ratings vs MAFA & I’m a celeb & can use cricket to be competitive
January 27th should be on 7mate, with the BBL final on at the same time. After that, I’d imagine 7mate until after Idol (Sunday to Tuesday) or 7:30pm other days, when it switches to the main channel.
Thankfully there are only two days where the Ashes and Sri Lanka game is on, Thursday 30th and Friday 31st. Expect that will be on 7mate (and 7two when the News is on the main channel).
No 1st Test is 29th to Feb 2. WAshes test is 30th to Feb 2. They overlap for 4 days
The Women’s ashes is at the MCG not the WACA
it’s a d/n test (women’s)