Semi-retired Australian cricketer and occasional Broncos kit manager Andrew Symonds and former Olympic champion Jodie Henry will launch their TV presenting careers together on an upcoming travel sports show to air on Ten's 24-hour sports channel One.

Symonds and Henry, who have both dabbled in TV in the past, will be among five presenters on Ultimate Sporting Holidays, which will be shown on One early next year and also feature Candice Falzon and ex-West Coast Eagle Chad Fletcher in presenting roles.

Last month, Symonds said that he stands on the cusp of cricket's new freelance frontier.

Since being sacked from the Australian team on disciplinary grounds, Symonds has immersed himself in training and strapping duties with the Queensland Broncos, running training drills so many times he could have replaced Peter Wallace.

He enjoyed his time with Ivan Henjak's squad so much he can see himself becoming a fulltime assistant with his beloved Broncos when the appeal of his other tempestuous mistress, cricket, finally runs out.

Even as the Broncos rode a tidal wave of success all the way to the NRL's preliminary final, cricket wasn't divorced from the 34-year-old''''s thoughts.

After repeated slaps over the wrist on account of his well-publicised issues with the demon drink, Symonds, a big hitting Queenslander, now stands at the forefront of a "freelance" career in global Twenty20 leagues without the hindrance of national obligations and codes of behaviour.

According to the Sydney Morning Herald, he's a cricketing vagabond, and a contented one at that.

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