Alyssa Healy joins Fox Cricket for Summer of the Century – Alyssa Healy has joined the Fox Cricket commentary team as a permanent member ahead of Kayo Sports’ Summer of the Century.
Healy will feature as part of Fox Cricket’s coverage from next month, with Australia hosting Bangladesh in the Top End Test series in Darwin and Mackay from Wednesday, 13 August.
For Australian cricket viewers, the signing adds one of the country’s most recent national captains to a commentary line-up already built around major names from the men’s and women’s game.
Healy joins Fox Cricket team
Healy joins Adam Gilchrist, Isa Guha, Kerry O’Keeffe, Michael Hussey, Mel Jones, Mark Howard, Brendon Julian, Brett Lee, Ian Smith, Michael Vaughan, Mark Waugh and David Warner across Fox Cricket’s summer coverage.
The move follows Healy’s work with Fox Cricket last summer. She retired from professional cricket in March after 299 appearances for Australia across 16 years, including her final three seasons as captain.
Healy said working with the Fox Cricket team already felt like home, and said she was excited to be involved in a major summer of cricket.
Fox Sports managing director Steve Crawley said Healy would bring “passion, insight and authenticity” to the coverage.
A decorated Australian career
Healy finished her international career with more than 7,300 runs and 278 dismissals, the most by any women’s international player across all three formats.
Her career included six T20 World Cup titles, the 2022 ODI World Cup, Commonwealth Games gold in 2022, 11 WNCL titles with the NSW Breakers and two WBBL championships.
She was also the 2019 Belinda Clark Award winner, a two-time ICC Women’s T20I Cricketer of the Year, and the first female player to reach 100 dismissals in T20 internationals.
Summer of the Century schedule
Kayo Sports’ Summer of the Century runs across seven months and begins with Australia’s men’s Test series against Bangladesh in August.
The first Test will be played at Marrara Stadium in Darwin from Thursday, 13 August to Monday, 17 August, with coverage from 10.30am AEST daily.
The second Test will be played at Great Barrier Reef Arena in Mackay from Saturday, 22 August to Wednesday, 26 August, with coverage from 10.00am AEST daily.
The wider summer also includes all-format clashes involving Australia, South Africa, England, New Zealand and India, before the 150th Anniversary Test Match at the MCG in March.
Australia’s women’s team will host Bangladesh, New Zealand and South Africa in successive white-ball series from October, while the WBBL begins on 29 October and BBL16 starts on 12 December.
How to watch
Every Test match played in Australia during the Bangladesh series will be shown live and ad-break free during play on Fox Cricket, available on Kayo Sports.
For more cricket coverage, visit TV Central’s Cricket section. Fox Cricket is available through Kayo Sports.
