SYDNEY (AP) Channel Nine, which brought cricket to Australian television viewers for 40 years and influenced the way the sport is covered around the world, has lost a billion dollar bidding duel ...

Ahead of the first Aussie summer in four decades without Channel 9 covering cricket, we take a look back.

Investors in broadcaster Nine Entertainment Co Pty Ltd <IPO-NEL.AX> are hoping Friday's listing on the Australian stock exchange taps into a national passion: cricket.

Australia has wrapped up the three-Test series against Pakistan with a comfortable nine-win victory on day four of the second Test at the Melbourne Cricket Ground.