Can someone tell me what channel is being promoted? Don’t think it’s clear enough from that picture… /s
Every ball all in one place this Summer on FOX CRICKET
EVERY BALL LIVE IN HD WITH NO AD BREAKS DURING PLAY
THE ONLY PLACE TO SEE EVERY BALL OF EVERY MATCH THIS SUMMER IS FOX CRICKET
EVERY TEST, ODI, T20I AND SELECTED BBL MATCHES LIVE ON FOX SPORTS ULTRA HD
WBBL – THE BLAST: FIRST-EVER DEDICATED WOMEN’S CRICKET SHOW
REVOLUTIONARY TECHNOLOGY SMASH FACTOR LAUNCHES ONLY ON FOX CRICKET
64,560 BALLS THIS SUMMER ON FOX CRICKET
OVER 1000 HOURS OF LIVE CRICKET
Australia’s only dedicated cricket channel, FOX CRICKET, has today launched the biggest summer of cricket on record with Every Ball LIVE in the one place with no ads during play in HD and with 16 Exclusive BBL matches in Ultra HD on Foxtel.
Every men’s Test Match, One-Day and T20 International played in Australia, every game of the Big Bash League, The Sheffield Shield final and the Prime Minister’s Xl.
Plus every women’s international in Australia, the ICC Women’s T20 World Cup, 24 WBBL games and the Governor General’s Xl.
All of this will be LIVE in HD with no ad-breaks during play on FOX CRICKET, available on Foxtel, or to stream via Foxtel GO.
Foxtel is the only place to be for the summer of cricket where viewers can watch FOX CRICKET on Foxtel Channel 501, as the Australian Test team embarks on a successful home summer with Steve Smith and David Warner back onboard after retaining the Ashes in England.
And only eligible Foxtel subscribers will be able to watch every men’s international Test, ODI and T20 match played in Australia, plus 16 BBL matches all on FOX SPORTS ULTRA HD.
The most impressive commentary team in the game will take FOX CRICKET’s broadcast revolution to the new heights with over 33 commentators with 11 female team members, boasting 1,070 Test appearances across six international captains and over 140,000 runs will guide viewers through the action.
Headlined by Adam Gilchrist , Isa Guha and Shane Warne , FOX CRICKET’s unrivalled commentary line-up includes Mark Waugh , Andrew Symonds , Mike Hussey , Brett Lee , Allan Border , Mel Jones , Kerry O’Keeffe , Michael Vaughan , Brad Haddin , Brendon Julian , Pat Cummins , Jess Yates , Mark Howard , Ellyse Perry , Alyssa Healy , Sarah Jones , Kath Loughnan , Alex Blackwell , Tom Morris , Megan Barnard and Sarah Olle .
International voices Wasim Akram and the voice of New Zealand cricket Ian Smith will provide expert opinion on the visiting teams.
FOX SPORTS Head of Television, Steve Crawley , said: “Seeing our commentators gathering in Sydney for today’s Fox Cricket launch – you think hallelujah, here comes summer and how good’s this lot … best of the best. Sri Lanka, Pakistan, New Zealand on Boxing Day at the MCG, Smith and Warner back on Australian soil, here we go.”
SMASH FACTOR ON FOX CRICKET
Introducing Smash Factor, one of the biggest innovations in cricket broadcasting ever.
Most broadcast technology in cricket has been centred around the ball, but cricket is a game dominated largely by the bat.
Smash Factor sends bat data in real time from a sticker/sensor placed just below the bat handle. The data is sent via Bluetooth to an App, or in the case of FOX CRICKET broadcasts this year, to a specialised box housed in the base of the stumps.
Initially, bat sensors were big and bulky, causing the bat to feel unbalanced plus the 360-degree nature of cricket also meant you couldn’t just put a radar behind the batter like you can do in golf or baseball.
In conjunction with Microsoft and Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA-based company Divinio have solved these issues by creating a sensor that goes on the back of the bat and weighs no more than your average credit card.
Smash Factor will measure data such as bat speed, launch angle and the power of shots.
Smash Factor is not just all about big hits. It will also be able to measure bat face angles and back lifts helping FOX CRICKET dissect, demonstrate and tell the stories of individual batting techniques like never before.
Very soon, a 12-year-old in Mumbai will be able to compare his Smash Factor numbers with a 12-year-old in London, Sydney or Cape Town. Of course, they will also be able to compare their numbers with their cricketing heroes as they happen LIVE on FOX CRICKET.
PROGRAMMING
The home of cricket will feature 12 entertainment programs this summer ensuring there is something to keep every viewer happy.
Game day coverage will deliver the most respected opinion, analysis and commentary with Come in Spinner, Test Cricket Live on FOX, The Big Break, Tea for Two, B4 The Bash, and FOX CRICKET – Test Day complementing the live action.
Then adding to a blockbuster Aussie summer Cricket 360 , The Back Page – Summer of Cricket, The Night Watchmen , The Cricket Tragic and Cricket Legends will all explore every corner of the game you can imagine.
Throughout summer, the biggest opinions on the biggest stories will be covered on Cricket 360 hosted by Gerard Whateley and Robert ‘ Crash ’ Craddock, when they provide the best debate and insight along with Cricket AM providing all the breaking and big news stories each morning across summer.
All new for 2019, The Back Page – Summer of Cricket will debut when Tony Squires , Kelli Underwood and The Back Page team regulars narrow their focus to the summer of cricket with a great mix of news, analysis and just bloody good fun.
Crash returns to host the award-winning Cricket Legends sitting down with the biggest names in the game with fans able to relive the matches that made legends on Fox Cricket Classics .
Gus Worland will give his unique insights on The Cricket Tragic while James ‘ The Professor ’ Rochford has been let loose on cricket with his own show The Night Watchmen .
A gigantic summer of cricket will deliver more than 1000 hours of LIVE coverage to Foxtel viewers.
The Australian men’s team will take on New Zealand, Pakistan and Sri Lanka across the summer in all formats of the game.
Summer’s most exciting sporting spectacle, BBL|09, turns up the volume on FOX CRICKET from December 17 with LIVE and ad-break free coverage of all 61 games with 16 EXCLUSIVE to Foxtel.
The world-leading Australian Women’s team will take on India, England, and Sri Lanka across the summer in the lead-up to the ICC Women’s T20 World Cup on home soil with every game LIVE from February 21 all the way through to the final held at the MCG on International Women’s Day on March 8.
The WBBL receives unprecedented coverage this season with FOX CRICKET broadcasting 24 games LIVE.
One Day International cricket ramps up from January 14 when the Australian ODI side travels to India for a three-match series EXCLUSIVE to FOX CRICKET, followed by the three-match Retro Series against New Zealand from March 13.
The FOX CRICKET App is free to download. The App delivers a personalised experience for fans and features all the latest news, fixtures, scores, stats and video from across the world of cricket.
In addition, Foxsports.com.au will be the destination to follow the action online, with all the latest news and results, comprehensive video highlights and plenty of insights from the FOX CRICKET commentators with regular podcasts, columns and live Q&As.
Foxtel has secured a stellar line-up of premier brands including Toyota, McDonalds, Harvey Norman, Bunnings, Alinta Energy, LION, Bet365, AHM, Specsavers and Maytronics as proud sponsors of FOX CRICKET. All ten will execute integrations across FOX CRICKET’s digital and broadcast assets.
FOX CRICKET is part of Foxtel’s plan to deliver the world’s best content both to watch LIVE and stream whether through our incredible iQ4 with Ultra HD capability or on any device using Foxtel GO, anytime, anywhere.
Fox Cricket’s coverage of Australian men’s 2019/20 international season begins tonight with Prime Minister’s XI taking on Sri Lanka in a Twenty20 tour match at Manuka Oval, Canberra.
This afternoon’s WBBL match between Brisbane Heat and Hobart Hurricanes will be streamed on Kayo and live on 7mate only, as it is played simultaneously as men’s Twenty20 match between Australia and Sri Lanka. Due to live sport on other Fox Sports channels at the same time (Supercars, MotoGP, US PGA golf, A-League) there is no space available for live pay TV coverage of the WBBL match.
why not use 502 or 504 as NRL and AFL are in off-season?
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Cause the Fed Gov only gave Fox $30m to show female sport not $50m…
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Well there’s goes the “Every ball all in one place” pledge and we’re not even in November…
Surely Fox Sports News could have been used to show the Heat v Hurricanes BBL match?
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Shows you how ridiculous it is having dedicated channels for sports that are only played in winter.
They should go back to generic branding in something like the following:
Fox Sports 1 - The Home of Cricket
Fox Sports 2 - The Home of League (in NRL months)
Fox Sports 3 - The Home of Footy (in AFL months)
Fox Sports 4 - The Home of Motorsport
Fox Sports 5
Fox Sports 6
Fox Sports 7
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I don’t know why they made the WBBL and the men’s T20I clash with one another in the first place… surely if Cricket Australia want to promote the women’s game- as it should- they should avoid such scheduling clashes.
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The scheduling is just ridiculous this year, daytime T20 Internationals, a series in India in January, a lack of women’s international matches during the summer school holidays despite there being no men’s internationals, and only three ODIs, with two of those ODIs in a row at the SCG, one during the day. Not to mention the problems with the Shield that have been evident for years.
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I think you could excuse that in October, especially in the southern capitals, with nights still being quite chilly. The Brisbane game should be a night game, though.
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The India series is the reason why the odi series v no is screwed. It was scheduled last minute as we could not get out of going to India
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A daytime ODI is plain stupid in March just as the footy season gets underway
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That appears to basically be how Sky NZ have organised their sports channels - they are all just numbered but have sports assigned to them as their primary sport, and will show replays/documentaries/etc from that sport to fill in time, but when needed they can overflow onto the two generic channels, or to over to other specific channels.
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For the second time this season, a WBBL match won’t be shown live on Fox Sports. Tomorrow’s Sixers-Stars match at WACA Ground will be shown live on Seven and streamed on Kayo, due to live sports on other channels. Fox Cricket will broadcast game 1 of Australia v Pakistan T20I series from the SCG, while 507 has the T20 clash between New Zealand and England.
This broadcast deal is so crap. Foxtel is expensive yet those subscribers don’t get what they are promised
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The thing is it’s so bad that even fox aren’t attracting subscribers for it. They thought this would be a game changer for them to have a summer sport. But in reality people like cricket as the wall paper for summer and only free to air brings that as casual fans won’t be subscribing.
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Much as this deal is annoying to all manner of cricket fans, it’s long lasting effects that have really escaped CA.
Without the full summer of cricket, especially the more exciting (for casuals) T20I and ODI games, the sport could miss out on snaring a new generation of fans, especially from kids whose parents aren’t interested in cricket.
I’m not sure I’d be a cricket tragic if I didn’t have cricket readily available on the TV during my pre-teen and teenage years.
Sure, you mightn’t need every single match on available on FTA, but you need the vast majority of each form.
And this is something that the ECB has discovered. Sure they raked in the cash thanks to its Sky deal, but participation numbers, especially in youth categories, is way down.
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