Nine Cricket Coverage

The fixtures for next year’s men’s and women’s T20 World Cup were announced at Sydney this morning. Nine has the FTA rights to both tournaments.


Nine is expected to air all games involving Australia, plus both semi finals on March 5 and the final at the MCG on March 8. The final starts at 7pm AEDT.


There will be two matches on Melbourne Cup day (Tuesday November 3) - Pakistan v West Indies in the afternoon (against the Cup race) and Australia v qualifier at night, both at Adelaide Oval. How could the ICC ignore the fact that everyone’s attention will be on Melbourne Cup during the day?
Nine is expected to air all games involving Australia, plus the semi finals on November 11 and 12, and the final at the MCG on November 15 also starting at 7pm AEDT.

The cricket starts at 2:30pm AEDT with the Melbourne Cup over by 3:05 AEDT, so there’s not a big overlap. Hardly anyone cares about the other races unless a good horse is racing.

This is all to much to handle

So no other sport can be played when another is? In that case BBL and international cricket would take a two week break when the Australian Open is on.

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I think it only applies to Melbourne Cup. When overseas teams tour Australia, Cricket Australia (and ACB before it) does not schedule any matches on Cup Day. Maybe someone can check out if there is any gentleman’s agreement between CA and Victoria Racing Club?

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Just heard from the NRL. They’ve had to abandon this year’s premiership because it clashes with the AFL.

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Considering the NRL season begins first, shouldn’t it be the other way round!?

Don’t get too tired :sleeping:

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You’ll find the reason CA don’t schedule international cricket against the Melb Cup is because if they do play in the first/second week of Nov they start the Test late enough in the week to maximise attendance by utilising the weekend. There’s plenty of examples of this in the last 20 years.

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The 2020 AFL Grand Final will be played on the 26 September 2020, while the NRL Grand Final will be played on a Sunday (4 October 2020). I had a feeling that the Bledisloe Cup between the All Blacks and the Wallabies might have to be played over in New Zealand due to clash with the T20 World Cup.

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There’s plenty of rugby stadiums in Australia that could theoretically host that match, not sure what the World T20 has to do with anything.

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This is mentioned in today’s Daily Telegraph article on Nine rejecting a deal with Seven to swap 2019 Ashes for 2019 and 2020 Wimbledon:

Nine won’t send their own commentary team to England for the World Cup and Ashes and will instead take the international feed from Star Sports for the World Cup and Sky for the Ashes.
They may try and insert one of their own commentators into the international pool, but at this stage Mark Taylor and Ian Healy are the only two members of the former commentary team that hold active contracts with Nine.
The main contribution for the Nine talent will come back in the studio for analysis between play, and the network is currently on the hunt for new faces to help Taylor and Healy head-up the coverage.
Former Test captain Michael Clarke and Mark Nicholas no longer have contracts with Nine and are unlikely to return.

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Quite cheap from Nine to not have a commentary team for what is probably one of the only prestigious cricket event broadcast into Australia for the next 6 years. Not all bad though when taking Nine’s commentary team into consideration.

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They sky sports team are fantastic. I’ve always thought they’re the gold standard of cricket teams.

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One thing for sure, they don’t go on dribbling about pizzas and other jazz like what Nine’s recent commentary team is like.

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Even if they went ahead and swapped, Seven would no doubt still need to pay Nine a fee, as they’re not like-for-like (two Wimbledons vs. an Ashes).

Though honestly have no idea how it’d have actually worked, that’s one guess.

2015 was the exception for Nine. Just 2 years earlier in 2013 they took the Sky UK feed. Although it looked great on GEM HD at the time.

This is how I recall previous Ashes series:
2019 - Sky UK via Nine (Exclusive)
2015 - Nine (Exclusive, no Fox Sports)
2013 - Sky UK via Nine / also on Fox Sports
2009 - Sky UK via SBS / also on Fox Sports
2005 - Channel 4 UK via SBS / Fox Sports?
2001 - Sky UK via Seven

Edit - Added @JohnsonTV’s info.
Edit 2 - Added @captaincupcake’s info

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SBS took Channel 4 UK broadcast in 2005, Sky’s coverage in 2009, while Seven relayed Sky’s coverage back in 2001.
EDIT: thanks to @captaincupcake for the info

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Nine or GEM? That’s the big question.

There will be outrage if The Ashes is on GEM.

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It was on GEM in both 2013 and 2015 but that was the previous GEM HD so it looked great. Nine went HD and GEM SD later that year in November 2015.

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