Women’s coverage grows in Australia, but have the men been left to pay the price?

Alison Mitchell looks at the changing of the guard with TV rights in Australia in the wake of the ball-tampering scandal

Changing face of cricket coverage: the 213 scored by Ellyse Perry was live streamed by Cricket Australia while the TV revolution was started by Kerry Packer, above
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Women’s cricket is the big winner in the A$1.182bn dollar TV rights deal struck by Cricket Australia.
From the start of the Aussie summer later this year, every single women’s home intentional will be shown live and free-to-air on Australia’s Network Seven, as w...

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