Channel 4 and Sky have won cricket television rights after a £103 million deal with the ECB.

The closing stages of the NatWest Trophy will be shown on Channel 4 and Sky will show the Super Cup as well as the National One Day League and crucial stages of the Championship.

Channel 4 will also show an hour long magazine cricket programme at the weekend covering all levels of progress. The terrestrial station will show all but one of the summer tests until 2002 and the One Day Internationals will be shown on Sky.

Channel 4 won the deal from the BBC because of their 'lively and invigoration approach to coverage'. It might mean more county cricket but we will have to wait and see.