[Newshound47]

Don't see why you should be surprised, if this was the football equivalent, they would definitely be on ITV1 (unless it was a final "clashing" group game).  But these games warrant main channel treatment in their own right, given one features the host nation (and many peoples' fancies to win the tournament) and the other features the joint winning most country.

Interestingly Samoa v Chile and Australia v Portugal on a weekend afternoon is on ITV4 when Unless there is horse racing ITV1 will just be showing repeats at that time.