Fox Cricket will show three more Marsh Cup matches later this month, in addition to the March 11 final at Melbourne’s Junction Oval:
February 14: Queensland v New South Wales, The Gabba (day/night)
February 23: New South Wales v Tasmania, North Sydney Oval
February 25: New South Wales v Tasmania, North Sydney Oval (day/night)
Later this afternoon, Cricket Australia confirmed the tour of Pakistan would go ahead after a final pre-trip security briefing. All seven matches will be shown on Fox Cricket.
With Fox having their own commentary team and graphics for the women’s Ashes, any chance they will do that for future women’s series or was this special since it was the Ashes?
Fox Sports launches 24/7 channel for ICC Women’s Cricket World Cup on Foxtel
24/7 DEDICATED DESTINATION ON FOXTEL FROM MARCH 4 – APRIL 3 EVERY GAME OF THE ICC WOMEN’S CRICKET WORLD CUP LIVE AND EXCLUSIVE ON FOX SPORTS
Fox Sports has announced plans to introduce a dedicated 24/7 channel on Foxtel, giving fans access to unprecedented coverage of the ICC Women’s Cricket World Cup next month.
Every game of the tournament will be broadcast live and ad-break free during play across the bespoke Women’s World Cup channel, Fox Cricket and other Fox Sports channels.
In addition to matches, the pop-up destination on Foxtel for cricket fans will also showcase replays, Fox Minis, highlights packages and additional bespoke content captured throughout the tournament.
The tournament will consist of 8 countries playing 31 games across 29 days in New Zealand, with on-site coverage led by Megan Barnard and Mel Jones.
On International Women’s Day – Tuesday, March 8 – the dedicated channel will broadcast Australia’s tournament clash against Pakistan live from 12.00pm AEDT, followed by a Fox Sports special of Australia’s unforgettable ICC Women’s T20 World Cup win at the MCG in 2020.
Fox Cricket General Manager, Matt Weiss said: “No broadcaster in Australia delivers more coverage of Women’s sport than Foxtel Group and Fox Cricket has been a big part of that. We delivered every game of the WBBL season for the first time this summer, extended our Ashes coverage and now have a dedicated World Cup channel to give this event the coverage it deserves and fuelling the hunger for more cricket from our growing audiences.”
The introduction of the dedicated channel on Foxtel is a further win for cricket fans after Kayo recently announced it would make the tournament accessible for all Australians, with every match to be made available on Kayo Freebies, with no credit card details required to register and start streaming.
Women’s Cricket World Cup overlaps with the Australian men’s tour of Pakistan except for the third ODI on April 2 and T20 clash on April 5. In fact all but one of Australia’s CWC group matches are on the same time as the three-test series between Pakistan and Australia. I think Fox Cricket will show the test matches, with CWC games on the pop-up channel and other Fox Sports channels.
The CWC semi-final 2 (March 31) and final (April 2) also clash with the final of Sheffield Shield.
Not quite true.
Virtually anyone can apply for an MIQ room as it stands (with a valid visa), but the rooms are limited.
Alternatively, given the CWC is a NZ government major event classification, they may have been expedited that way as I’m sure they would be bringing in commentators from around the world.
It wouldn’t surprise me if Mel Jones is part of the world feed commentary team too.
Yeah - that one is to try and avoid any players falling into the NZ govt ‘close contact’ definition, hence why they are hubbing it. It’s not worth the Super teams opening up grounds/having to run security etc for the games in Queenstown/Dunedin when no attending group can be over 100 people.
But for CWC, tickets sales have already been sold, security already rostered to work etc, they can make a ‘pod’ system (max groups of 100) work. Complicated, I know.
Wait, wait, wait. Being in the same stadium as a positive case (a case in the crowd, outside the playing bubble) would class you as a close contact? Even WA has some sense in this regard!
Sorry, players are the close contact (one player gets it, the whole team are considered close contacts and team has to shut down for 10 days). NZ’s close contact rule will change as more Omicron cases are found and the isolation rules will be less severe for close contacts.
On the crowds, because it’s been arranged at such short notice, it’s just not worth the while of the Super teams to open up for ticket sales/arrange security, gate etc to allow crowds (which would have to be a maximum of 100 per gated area)
