Australian cricketers' participation in the Indian Premier League (IPL) as well the Indian cricket board's request that its Test players can't quarantine separately from the Indian limited-overs squad has come into focus after Channel 7, who hold the free-to-air TV rights for India-Australia Tests and the Big Bash League (BBL), filed an affidavit against Cricket Australia (CA) asking for proof of correspondence between the two boards over rescheduling of the current international season."

Channel 7 took exception to CA's decision to hold the India-Australia three-match T20 International series between December 4 and 8, saying that it went against the original 'Published International Schedule' in the Media Rights Agreement (MRA) that promised that the men's Big Bash would start on December 3 and would coincide with the start of the first India-Australia Test.