Looks like Fox doesn’t have a DRS timer as 7’s was used. During the test matches in previous years 7 did have their own
Foxtel Group scores exclusive international cricket rights
The Foxtel Group has announced exclusive, multi-year rights extensions with the cricket boards of South Africa, England and India, cementing its position as the home of an unrivalled line up of local and international cricket in Australia.
The long-term deals will see all competitions and all Australian men’s and women’s Test, One Day International (ODI) and T20 tours played in South Africa, England (except The Ashes) and India, exclusively available for Australian cricket fans on Foxtel and Kayo Sports.
Foxtel Group Executive Director, Commercial – Sport, Rebecca McCloy, said: “We have been proud partners of Cricket South Africa, the English and Wales Cricket Board and the BCCI for more than a decade. These renewed deals mean that the Foxtel Group will continue to deliver customers unrivalled coverage of the biggest and best line-up of international and local cricket.
“Alongside our comprehensive rights to domestic cricket, which we have until 2031, this announcement is great news for our millions of subscribers who can continue enjoy the most extensive coverage of cricket in Australia and around the world.”
In addition to these partnerships, Fox Cricket is also home to New Zealand Cricket and the Indian Premier League as well as all Australian men’s and women’s Tests, One Day Internationals, T20s, and Big Bash League and Women’s Big Bash League Matches, all available on Foxtel and Kayo Sports.
Ms McCloy continued: “These deals reinforce Foxtel Group’s long-term commitment to providing a premium and popular mix of more than 50 sports from around the world, delivering unparalleled access to our more than three million sports subscribers.”
Foxtel Group’s suite of sports broadcasting partners span AFL, AFLW, NRL, NRLW, Cricket, UFC, Netball, Formula 1, Supercars, Boxing, UFC and include exclusive blockbuster international coverage.
Over the last 12 months, 53 million hours of cricket was streamed across Foxtel Group, almost two thirds of which were streamed on Kayo Sports, demonstrating the strength of the brand in growing the Group’s streaming audiences.
The announcement comes as Fox Cricket revealed its 2023/24 commentary team at its ‘Summer of Cricket’ launch event. The suite of experts includes cricket royalty such as Wasim Akram, Ravi Shastri and Brian Lara along with returning international experts Isa Guha, Michael Vaughan, Ian Smith and Harsha Bhogle. The team will be anchored as usual by Adam Gilchrist and feature home-grown favourites such as Mike Hussey, Mark Howard, Mel Jones, Brad Haddin, Brendon Julian, Allan Border, Brett Lee, Kerry O’Keeffe, Mark Waugh, Megan Barnard, Sarah Jones and more.
Current Australian champions including David Warner, Usman Khawaja and Alyssa Healy will also spend time behind the microphone outside of their playing commitments as they transition into commentary roles, post-career.
The Fox Cricket line-up boasts a total of 1131 tests, 2525 ODI’s and 389 T20 internationals - a total of 4045 international matches in all formats.
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Some good news for Foxtel after losing ICC tournament broadcast rights to Amazon Prime. Foxtel will still be disappointed that it can’t get the Ashes in England though.
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They use Seven’s as it’s burnt into the feed.
Ashes mandated by law is required on FTA.
Yeah but they would have liked a simulcast.
The launch took place at Parramatta this morning. David Warner featured on a panel alongside Usman Khawaja and Australian test and ODI captain Pat Cummins.
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I can only guess if this was Nine it would be all over the news.
This is a major stuff up.
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Fox Cricket assembles the best commentary team from around the world
Fox Cricket unveiled their 2023/2024 expert commentary team today which is the most accomplished and diverse group ever assembled in world sport. The international legends joining the Fox Cricket team this summer include Wasim Akram, Ravi Shastri, Isa Guha, Harsha Bhogle, Brian Lara, Michael Vaughan and Ian Smith.
This is in addition to our home-grown heroes such as Adam Gilchrist, Brett Lee, Mark Waugh, Mel Jones, Mike Hussey, Kerry O’Keeffe and more who will continue to inform and entertain audiences on Foxtel and Kayo Sports.
As well as our current players and transitioning experts David Warner, Usman Khawaja and Alyssa Healy.
The Fox Cricket commentary team heads to Perth next week for the West Test kicking off the three-match series against Pakistan. Watch every Test match played in Australia live and ad-break-free during play on Fox Cricket available on Kayo Sports and Foxtel.
Former Pakistan cricket captain and now Fox Cricket commentator Wasim Akram said, “Having been a part of the 1992 Pakistan winning World Cup team, this series brings up a lot of emotion and great memories for me. Under new leadership, the Pakistan team will need to be in form to win, the Australian team are coming into this Test off the back of their incredible World Cup win.’’
Managing Director of Fox Sports, Steve Crawley, said, we couldn’t be more excited to have secured the best of the best experts in the world, the most diverse commentary team the modern game has seen”.
New Technology is going to be unveiled with the Electra Stumps. The next evolution of Stump technology will not only interact with the game itself but bring extra colour and entertainment for Cricket fans at home and in the stadium.
The LED Stumps will be on show throughout the 2023 Men’s Big Bash League season. The only place to see every match of the KFC BBL live and ad-break-free during play is Fox Cricket available to stream on Kayo Sports and watch on Foxtel.
In addition, Fox Cricket is enhancing AI and AR graphics, player-tracking Spidercam, and advanced ball-tracking technologies across our coverage. Mic-ups during games will also continue, bringing fans closer to players and closer to the action.
The Foxtel Group also announced exclusive, multi-year rights extensions with Cricket South Africa, the English Cricket Board and Indian Cricket, cementing its position as the home of an unrivalled lineup of local and international cricket in Australia.
The long-term deals will provide our customers with a strong suite of cricket content, giving them access to all men’s and women’s Test, One Day International and T20 tours played in South Africa, England (except The Ashes) and India, exclusively available for Australian cricket fans to stream on Kayo Sports and watch on Foxtel.
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Bit of a blunder from Fox and probably more so CA’s digital team, who sound like they’re responsible for it. 
I sorta get why whatever they’re using would have abbreviated to that - not being a test match and not being full-strength, some places would refer to the team as the “Pakistanis” in this game (calling it “a Pakistan XI” is somewhat outdated), to be clear it’s not the Pakistan test team.
Still not really any excuse, no-one watching it on the TV or on whatever online feeds that use the same thing would care and it should’ve just be showing “PAK”.
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Ravi Shastri will be commentating the Perth Test for Fox before he heads off to South Africa. Will be interesting to hear him commentate a neutral Test.
He was on the team for tonight’s BBL match which was abandoned, so I assume he will do a couple more.
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Yeah saw that pointed out within seconds of the scoregraphic going up. Clearly they set the ‘team names’ to 4 characters in order to fit ‘PMXI’ compared with the normal ‘QLD’ or ‘STA’ and didn’t realise that ‘PAK’ wasn’t going to be what was shown.
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And a Pakistan one at that.
Rare day tomorrow (December 15) with live cricket across three channels.
Fox Cricket: Australia v Pakistan, 1st test day 2
Fox Sports 505: Women’s test, India v England
Fox Sports 506: 2nd women’s ODI, New Zealand v Pakistan (first 2.5 hours on Fox Sports 505)
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505 is FC+?
At the moment, that’s correct. I guess it’s motorsport off-season so they can use 506 for even more overspill, even if 507 is usually what’s intended for that, by name at least…
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A popup channel for overflow cricket coverage during summer. 505 was Fox Cricket Plus in 2022-23 as well
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No Daddles the Duck animation for Warner’s dismissal just now.
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He was voiced by Warnie and was retired last summer
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