Sidenote - is that the same Jane Holmes that featured on The Great TV Game Show?
Love her.
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That is ABSOLUTELY her 
Unmistakable voice.
(Another side note, she also mentioned the footy beating MKR on 7mate in Melb)
Makes the most sense for both Foxtel and Ten. Obviously Foxtel will have to put up most of the money.
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âMusic to the earsâ of Cricket Australia - a bidding war.
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Didnât CA want to try and get the magic ~$1 billion?
Especially when you see the AFL getting over $2.5 billion 
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Itâs like comparing apples with oranges. The AFL season goes for seven months each year including pre-season and involves the same teams. The TV component of the cricket season is five months and the visiting overseas team varies each year.
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Donât forget about Optus Sport as a serious player.
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Murdoch pushing his own adgendaâŚ
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Yesterday Nine Entertainment CEO Hugh Marks told the Macquarie Australia Conference that cricket lacks the dependability of the AFL and rugby league seasons, and his company can afford the cricket rights but only to a limit.
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Networks playing it down to get a better price.
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If the dispute between Cricket Australia and the players is not resolved then the future television rights might not be worth much. David Warner is saying the test players may play elsewhere from 1 July 2017.
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There is no way they are going to boycott the Ashes but hopefully a compromise is found soon.
Hugh Marks spinning the spin.
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The Australian reported yesterday that negotiations for the next broadcast rights might be postponed until next year, due to the ongoing pay dispute between Cricket Australia and the players, as well as Ten falling into receivership. Even though CA is a creditor of Ten, it wants the network to be included in talks to ensure competition.
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Ten per CA the rights fee for the last year of the deal which will certainly be covered by the advertising revenue so as a creditor I donât think CA is in any danger.
Unless they have a big money owner I donât see ten getting rights next year for cricket unless itâs some sort of shitty simulcast deal with fox.
I really hope Ten get everything 
(LOL, probably not going to happen anymore).
Get those billionaires to give CA a billion bucks or something
Nine puts hard word on CA for new rights deal
Selected excerpts
Cricket Australiaâs main media partner, Nine Entertainment Co, will push hard to strike a rich new broadcasting deal for all forms of the game âas soon as possibleâ, in the face of plans by cricketâs governing body to delay the process until next year amid the ongoing playersâ dispute.
The Australian revealed last week that Cricket Australia wants to delay the negotiation of the rights deal until the end of the Âupcoming Ashes summer, partly because of the playersâ pay Âdispute.
The gameâs governing body is also concerned that the timing of the appointment of receivers to Ten Network in recent days, at a time of media reform gridlock, may affect its ability to achieve the maximum possible price for Âcricket on TV in the next few months.
Cricket insiders have privately indicated the deal need not happen âuntil early next yearâ, as Cricket Australia tries to wait for as much competitive tension as possible between the three commercial networks and pay-TV.
AFR reports Optus is believed to be mulling over expanding its cricket broadcast rights to bolster its sports offering. The report says CA would consider letting some matches go to subscription providers such as Optus or Fox Sports as long as there was a decent sized free-to-air television component to the deal.
Channel Tenâs apparent revival is good news for Cricket Australia
Wilkinsonâs defection from Nine to Ten on a seven figure deal was the type of aggressive move needed to show Ten, while still in a delicate transitional stage, could still put its money where its mouth is.
With US media giant CBS now on the verge of becoming Tenâs new owners and reported to have approved the Wilkinson deal, Ten now has the ability to snap the ball and chain from its previous debts and be a lively competitor in the cricket rights, expected to be settled in the next six months.
While Nine understandably is hoping to have the rights settled as quickly as possible in the hope that Ten could still be financially off-balance, negotiations cannot go slow enough for Ten for every passing week gives it a chance to feel the new blood of its wealthy owners coursing through the company.
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The article makes good points.
I think I speak for everyone, when I say we want Ten to retan BBL cricket (and provides big summer ratings and advertising renunue for the network, as well as lead-in to their Q1 programming well).
Nine would treat BBL terribly, and why not when they have international cricket (assuming they retain that).