James Brayshaw
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James Antony Brayshaw is a former state cricketer
and now Australian television
and radio
personality. As a cricketer he was known as Jamie Brayshaw. He is the son of former Western Australia
n cricketer and Australian rules footballer Ian Brayshaw
, and the brother of Mark Brayshaw
, a former Kangaroos AFL player. He is currently serving as Chairman of the North Melbourne Football Club
.
batting average
of 42.53.
in Adelaide. This included being a substitute sports anchor for the Seven Nightly News
bulletin and working on local football discussion programs, such as Footy Plus. In early 1998 James was teamed up with Amanda Blair
and Paul Gale on Adelaide's SAFM, which eventually became that city's number one rating breakfast show. One memorable on-air incident at SAFM saw him covered in Adelaide bodypaint after the club he supports, North Melbourne, lost the 1998 AFL Grand Final
to them.
's Ashes
(cricket
) action with Jeff Thomson
, but later moved to the Nine Network
when the AFL
was transferred. He became the nightly anchor for the National Nine News
sport report, as well as contributing to other sports programs on the network, eventually becoming a regular commentator in both football and cricket coverage. In 2005, Brayshaw co-hosted Any Given Sunday
with Garry Lyon
and Sam Newman
.
In 2006, Brayshaw (along with Garry Lyon) replaced Eddie McGuire
as host of The AFL Footy Show
, a position he currently holds. Additionally, he co-hosted the morning sessions of the 2006 Melbourne Commonwealth Games
with Lyon. Apart from his television commitments, he works for radio station Triple M
, as a host and commentator of their Australian rules football
coverage. He also worked as a full-time co-host on breakfast program The Cage
before it was axed in 2007. Previously he has been part of the Melbourne
-based show via his home studio in the Adelaide
Hills.
Brayshaw was installed as Chairman of the North Melbourne Football Club on 6 December 2007 after the club rejected the AFL's deal to permanently relocate to the Gold Coast.
In September 2007, Brayshaw announced that he will be leaving The Cage
to spend more time with his family - just before the program was cancelled due to high costs and poor ratings.
Brayshaw currently hosts the Sunday Footy Show, along side panellists Dermott Bereton, Nathan Brown, Shane Crawford and Billy Brownless. He has also hosted the Australian version of Wipeout with Josh Lawson.
For the duration of the 2010 Winter Olympics games in Vancouver, Brayshaw took on a commentary role for various skiing events alongside Michael Kennedy, former international moguls skier, dual Winter Olympics coach and current CEO of Ski and Snowboard Australia, in calling the moguls competition. Brayshaw teamed up with three-time Australian snowboard champion, Jay Onley, to call the action from the Olympic snowboard competition.
In June 2011, Brayshaw was announced as the President of the T20 Big bash competition team, the Melbourne Renegades
.
Cricketer
A cricketer is a person who plays the sport of cricket. Official and long-established cricket publications prefer the traditional word "cricketer" over the rarely used term "cricket player"....
and now Australian television
Television
Television is a telecommunication medium for transmitting and receiving moving images that can be monochrome or colored, with accompanying sound...
and radio
Radio
Radio is the transmission of signals through free space by modulation of electromagnetic waves with frequencies below those of visible light. Electromagnetic radiation travels by means of oscillating electromagnetic fields that pass through the air and the vacuum of space...
personality. As a cricketer he was known as Jamie Brayshaw. He is the son of former Western Australia
Western Australia
Western Australia is a state of Australia, occupying the entire western third of the Australian continent. It is bounded by the Indian Ocean to the north and west, the Great Australian Bight and Indian Ocean to the south, the Northern Territory to the north-east and South Australia to the south-east...
n cricketer and Australian rules footballer Ian Brayshaw
Ian Brayshaw
Ian James Brayshaw is a former cricketer and Australian rules footballer.Brayshaw played 101 first-class cricket matches for Western Australia in the Sheffield Shield, taking 178 wickets at an average of 25.08 and scoring 4325 runs at 31.80...
, and the brother of Mark Brayshaw
Mark Brayshaw
Mark Brayshaw is a former Australian rules footballer who played for North Melbourne Football Club in the AFL. He is the brother of James Brayshaw and the son of Ian Brayshaw.-Playing career:...
, a former Kangaroos AFL player. He is currently serving as Chairman of the North Melbourne Football Club
North Melbourne Football Club
The North Melbourne Football Club, nicknamed The Kangaroos, is the fourth oldest Australian rules football club in the Australian Football League and is one of the oldest sporting clubs in Australia and the world...
.
Cricket career
Playing for South Australia and Western Australia, he had a career spanning almost a decade. In that time, he was a consistent batsman, with a first-classFirst-class cricket
First-class cricket is a class of cricket that consists of matches of three or more days' scheduled duration, that are between two sides of eleven players and are officially adjudged first-class by virtue of the standard of the competing teams...
batting average
Batting average
Batting average is a statistic in both cricket and baseball that measures the performance of cricket batsmen and baseball hitters. The two statistics are related in that baseball averages are directly descended from the concept of cricket averages.- Cricket :...
of 42.53.
Early career
In the 1990s, Brayshaw worked for the Seven NetworkSeven Network
The Seven Network is an Australian television network owned by Seven West Media Limited. It dates back to 4 November 1956, when the first stations on the VHF7 frequency were established in Melbourne and Sydney.It is currently the second largest network in the country in terms of population reach...
in Adelaide. This included being a substitute sports anchor for the Seven Nightly News
Seven News
Seven News is the television news service of the Seven Network in Australia.National bulletins are presented from Seven's high-definition studios in Martin Place, Sydney, while flagship 6pm bulletins are produced in Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane, Adelaide, and Perth. The network also produces Seven...
bulletin and working on local football discussion programs, such as Footy Plus. In early 1998 James was teamed up with Amanda Blair
Amanda Blair
Amanda Blair is a Australian radio broadcaster, a former columnist with the Sunday Mail, and a former member of the Social Inclusion Board, and has been a board member of the Adelaide Festival since 2004...
and Paul Gale on Adelaide's SAFM, which eventually became that city's number one rating breakfast show. One memorable on-air incident at SAFM saw him covered in Adelaide bodypaint after the club he supports, North Melbourne, lost the 1998 AFL Grand Final
AFL Grand Final
The AFL Grand Final is an annual Australian rules football match, traditionally held on the final Saturday in September at the Melbourne Cricket Ground in Melbourne, Australia to determine the Australian Football League premiership champions for that year...
to them.
Recent years
In 2001 his big break came as the host of the Seven NetworkSeven Network
The Seven Network is an Australian television network owned by Seven West Media Limited. It dates back to 4 November 1956, when the first stations on the VHF7 frequency were established in Melbourne and Sydney.It is currently the second largest network in the country in terms of population reach...
's Ashes
The Ashes
The Ashes is a Test cricket series played between England and Australia. It is one of the most celebrated rivalries in international cricket and dates back to 1882. It is currently played biennially, alternately in the United Kingdom and Australia. Cricket being a summer sport, and the venues...
(cricket
Cricket
Cricket is a bat-and-ball game played between two teams of 11 players on an oval-shaped field, at the centre of which is a rectangular 22-yard long pitch. One team bats, trying to score as many runs as possible while the other team bowls and fields, trying to dismiss the batsmen and thus limit the...
) action with Jeff Thomson
Jeff Thomson
Jeffrey Robert Thomson is a former Australian cricketer. Known as "Thommo", he was one of the fastest bowlers ever to play Test cricket and was the opening partner of fellow fast bowler Dennis Lillee; their combination was one of the most fearsome in Test cricket history...
, but later moved to the Nine Network
Nine Network
The Nine Network , is an Australian television network with headquarters based in Willoughby, a suburb located on the North Shore of Sydney. For 50 years since television's inception in Australia, between 1956 and 2006, it was the most watched television network in Australia...
when the AFL
Australian Football League
The Australian Football League is both the governing body and the major professional competition in the sport of Australian rules football...
was transferred. He became the nightly anchor for the National Nine News
National Nine News
Nine News is the news service of the Australian Nine Network.Nine News's flagship bulletin is the nightly 6:00pm localised bulletin, produced by networked owned-and-operated stations in Sydney , Melbourne , Brisbane and Darwin alongside localised bulletins produced by the WIN-owned Nine Network...
sport report, as well as contributing to other sports programs on the network, eventually becoming a regular commentator in both football and cricket coverage. In 2005, Brayshaw co-hosted Any Given Sunday
Any Given Sunday (TV series)
Any Given Sunday was an Australian television program that aired on the Nine Network between 2005 to 2006. The show was not broadcast in NSW, the ACT or QLD, where The Sunday Roast screened instead.-Season 1:...
with Garry Lyon
Garry Lyon
Garry Peter Lyon is a former professional Australian rules football player and was captain of the Melbourne Football Club in the Australian Football League. Since his retirement from football, he has been mainly an Australian rules football media personality, featuring on television, radio and in...
and Sam Newman
Sam Newman
John Noel William "Sam" Newman is a retired Australian rules football player and current television personality. He is a featured presenter on the AFL version of The Footy Show.-VFL career:...
.
In 2006, Brayshaw (along with Garry Lyon) replaced Eddie McGuire
Eddie McGuire
Edward Joseph "Eddie" McGuire AM is an Australian television presenter and businessman known for his long association with Australian rules football and the Channel 9 television network....
as host of The AFL Footy Show
The AFL Footy Show
The Footy Show is a Logie Award winning Australian sports television program, shown on the Nine Network and its affiliates.This show, which is dedicated to the AFL and Australian rules football, made its debut on 24 March 1994 at the same time as the other version which relates to the NRL and rugby...
, a position he currently holds. Additionally, he co-hosted the morning sessions of the 2006 Melbourne Commonwealth Games
2006 Commonwealth Games
The 2006 Commonwealth Games were held in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia between 15 March and 26 March 2006. It was the largest sporting event to be staged in Melbourne, eclipsing the 1956 Summer Olympics in terms of the number of teams competing, athletes competing, and events being held.The site...
with Lyon. Apart from his television commitments, he works for radio station Triple M
Triple M
The Triple M Network is an active rock radio network in Australia owned by media company Austereo, who also own the Today Network.- History :...
, as a host and commentator of their Australian rules football
Australian rules football
Australian rules football, officially known as Australian football, also called football, Aussie rules or footy is a sport played between two teams of 22 players on either...
coverage. He also worked as a full-time co-host on breakfast program The Cage
The Cage (radio show)
The Cage is the name of two different breakfast shows on Australian radio network Triple M, broadcasting in Brisbane and Melbourne.Previously Sydney and Adelaide received the Melbourne version, however these cities now have their own individual shows....
before it was axed in 2007. Previously he has been part of the Melbourne
Melbourne
Melbourne is the capital and most populous city in the state of Victoria, and the second most populous city in Australia. The Melbourne City Centre is the hub of the greater metropolitan area and the Census statistical division—of which "Melbourne" is the common name. As of June 2009, the greater...
-based show via his home studio in the Adelaide
Adelaide
Adelaide is the capital city of South Australia and the fifth-largest city in Australia. Adelaide has an estimated population of more than 1.2 million...
Hills.
Brayshaw was installed as Chairman of the North Melbourne Football Club on 6 December 2007 after the club rejected the AFL's deal to permanently relocate to the Gold Coast.
In September 2007, Brayshaw announced that he will be leaving The Cage
The Cage (radio show)
The Cage is the name of two different breakfast shows on Australian radio network Triple M, broadcasting in Brisbane and Melbourne.Previously Sydney and Adelaide received the Melbourne version, however these cities now have their own individual shows....
to spend more time with his family - just before the program was cancelled due to high costs and poor ratings.
Brayshaw currently hosts the Sunday Footy Show, along side panellists Dermott Bereton, Nathan Brown, Shane Crawford and Billy Brownless. He has also hosted the Australian version of Wipeout with Josh Lawson.
For the duration of the 2010 Winter Olympics games in Vancouver, Brayshaw took on a commentary role for various skiing events alongside Michael Kennedy, former international moguls skier, dual Winter Olympics coach and current CEO of Ski and Snowboard Australia, in calling the moguls competition. Brayshaw teamed up with three-time Australian snowboard champion, Jay Onley, to call the action from the Olympic snowboard competition.
In June 2011, Brayshaw was announced as the President of the T20 Big bash competition team, the Melbourne Renegades
Melbourne Renegades
The Melbourne Renegades is a franchise in Australia's newly announced Twenty20 cricket competition, the Big Bash League. The Renegades will wear a red kit....
.
Personal life
- In a tragic accident on 20 September 2006, his sister Sally was killed instantly after the facade of her garage collapsed on top of her.
- Brayshaw and his wife Sarah have four sons.