Cricket Australia says its deals with the Nine and Ten networks for the domestic broadcast of cricket are worth $590 million.
The Nine Network outbid Network Ten for the rights to broadcast Australian cricket for the next five years, while Ten has won the right to broadcast the domestic Twenty20 competition for five years from next summer.
Cricket Australia chief executive officer James Sutherland said on Tuesday the overall value of the deal for Australian cricket for the domestic rights is $590 million - 118 per cent more than the previous five-year deal.
Nine Entertainment CEO David Gyngell said there was never any question that the cricket would remain on Nine.
"There was never any doubt that Channel Nine was not going to get the cricket," Mr Gyngell told reporters in Melbourne.
Nine has agreed to a $60 million joint venture with Cricket Australia for the digital rights.
Mr Sutherland said there were times over the past few months that Cricket Australia thought Nine would not match Ten's offer.
Mr Sutherland said the total value to Cricket Australia of the rights, including international deals with broadcast partners, was $840 million over the next five years.
He said all international games would be telecast live and in full nationally.
Mr Sutherland said the deal with the Nine Network was worth $450 million and the agreement struck with Ten was worth $100 million.
Ten chief executive officer and managing director Hamish McLennan said the network knew Nine had the right of last refusal when asked if he was disappointed to be outbid by Nine.
"We put a very healthy bid on table," he said.
"We feel like we have a substantial chunk of cricket in an area we think is growing. But the ball was always in David's court and we knew that. We knew how important cricket was to them."
