SKY Sport signs six-year deal with Cricket Australia

Cricket Australia have signed a historical six-year broadcast deal with SKY Sport for the benefit of cricket fans in New Zealand. SKY Sport has secured exclusive rights to continue to  broadcast all Australian cricket matches in New Zealand until 2025. 



This deal marks the continuation of a partnership that is close to two decades old, and will also include the telecast of the Boxing Day Test between Australia and New Zealand later this year.



Aside from men’s international matches, SKY Sport will broadcast women’s internationals, Big Bash League, Women’s Big Bash League and all other domestic matches that are telecast in Australia.



“We’re excited to partner with SKY Sport again as our exclusive New Zealand broadcast partner, giving cricket fans in New Zealand the chance to watch the next six years of the Australian cricket summer,” Antonia Beggs, CA’s acting executive general manager Broadcasting and Commercial, said. “This summer promises to offer some high-quality international cricket with our women and men taking on Sri Lanka to start the season, but we know Blackcaps fans will be holding out for the Boxing Day Test where New Zealand return for the first time in 32 years.”



“We admired from a distance the support the New Zealand cricket fans gave their team in the lead up to the ICC Cricket World Cup Final, so we’ve got no doubt it will be the same this Australian summer and for years to come. As World Cup finalists, we’re really looking forward to having the New Zealand team back in Australia in March for the three-match Gillette ODI series where both teams will don their respective 1999 retro kits."



“SKY Sport will also broadcast the KFC Big Bash League and the rebel WBBL, with the fifth instalment of the women’s domestic T20 competition earmarking a significant moment for the competition when it goes to a standalone season for the first time in its history,” Beggs added.