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ICC Champions Trophy on terrestrial TV after BBC secure highlights rights
The BBC has secured the rights to showcase highlights of this summer's ICC Champions Trophy, adding to what could be a bumper period of free-to-air cricket on terrestrial television.
As exclusively revealed by Telegraph Sport, the BBC is also confident of becoming the ECB's free-to-air partner for its new Twenty20 competition and has promised to give it the same level of exposure as the FA Cup.
By agreeing a deal to show highlights of the Champions Trophy in England, it will be the first time cricket in this country has been broadcast by the corporation since the 1999 World Cup.
BBC Two will also show highlights every night of each match played, which will see the top eight teams in one-day international cricket challenging for the prestigious trophy, starting on June 1.
Adil Rashid and Moeen Ali may well between them hold one of the keys to England's chances of winning their maiden 50-over global title in the Champions Trophy.
Two of the hosts' three Group A fixtures will take place at venues known on occasion to favour spin - although Eoin Morgan has been reluctant in the past to deploy both his protagonists at Cardiff, where the short straight boundary at the River Taff end makes it a precarious tactic.
Memories of England's last Champions Trophy campaign still centre, meanwhile, on Edgbaston - where they will face Australia this time and four years ago, on an already well-used surface, they collapsed in the final from a winning position against India on a surface which might easily have been shipped in especially from Mumbai.
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The conjecture for 2017 is that fresh pitches will be available throughout, but no-one knows how dry a month June may be - and if the sun shines, England's spin chums will be bang in the game.
Moeen and Rashid, both English-born Muslims, have plenty in common - having each also grown up in big-city surroundings of Birmingham and Bradford respectively.
It is perhaps unsurprising then that, since their England careers took off, they often seem to seek out one another's company and are regularly seen together on tour.
The partnership goes onto the pitch too, and Rashid freely admits he missed Moeen's match presence when England left the off-spinning all-rounder out of their team for two early-season one-day international victories over Ireland.
Moeen, a few months older than his friend and team-mate, will be 30 on June 18 - the day of the Champions Trophy final at The Oval.
That is no bad omen, of course, for anyone who likes that sort of thing. But to get to The Oval on that mid-summer weekend, Moeen and Rashid will have to do much more than rely on fate.
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It is easy to portray the pair as mentor and protege, Moeen in the elder role, and much of what they say supports the theory.
Rashid, for example, believes he has achieved a gradual maturity over the years to go with his evident improvement in white-ball cricket of late.
"It's taken time (to get to that point) - more so the last five or six years," the Yorkshire leg-spinner said. "You want to perform, but it's not the end of the world if you don't."
Asked if he is ready to be a match-winner this summer, he said: "There's no point beating yourself up about it too much, putting too many expectations on yourself. That's extra pressure you don't need."
Moeen's take on the same topic contains an affectionate aside at Rashid's expense, but is reassuring too.
"He's definitely matured since he was 11..." he said. "He's still not the brightest! (But) he has matured a lot, even over the last year-and-a-half or two years."
