So, the ECB has signed another multi-year deal granting exclusive coverage of live cricket to SKY. Neither the BBC or Channel 4 made a bid. While I'd have loved to have Test Cricket back on terrestrial that looks a pipe dream now, short of it going on the list of protected events, but you'd think that at least some domestic cricket could be offered to terrestrial viewers so that potential young players who don't have SKY might be able to recognise who Flintoff or Pietersen are.

There was some offered, but the terrestrial companies are terrified of cricket 'cos they can't guarantee their schedules, the poor little lambs.

Incidentally Sky Sports News coverage of this was possibly the most nauseatingly self-congratulatory piece of shit that I've ever seen on television...