earlier on, i spoke to bryan henderson, director of cricket at sky sports, and i asked him at what pointt of a new television rights deal formed in 2017, it was initially supposed to be a 2020 competition, as part of a new five—year deal that ran from 2020—24. and yeah, like i said, it was meant to be t20 competition — they came to us in 2018, i think, and suggested that the format change to 100. and at the time it was a really interesting idea — and since then, we've worked really closely with the ecb and the bbc in terms of forming this new competition. it's quite interesting that a broadcaster is involved in creating essentially a new format for sport. yeah, and it's been a really interesting process, and i think it's been a really good process. and i think what ecb, sky, and bbc will all agree is that working closely together has been a really good idea. it's definitely been a collaboration — when we committed to spending over £1 billion to sport as part of this wider deal, the boss at the time was determined this would be more of a collaboration between the broadcaster and governing

to sanjay patel, director of the hundred for the ecb, and we also heard from bryan henderson, directorye. good evening. storm evert will move out into the north sea as we go through the night, but it's brought some destructive winds, it's brought some torrential rain, particularly to northern and eastern parts of england through the afternoon and into the evening. still a few storms rumbling on as yet, but they should fade away overnight. but there's always, for eastern areas, going to be some further rain, a lot of cloud. the showers further west tending to become fewer and further between. a fresher night, 10—13 celsius, because we're switching our wind direction to the north — notable for scotland and northern ireland tomorrow, where there will still be a few showers around, but fewer, generally speaking. most of them will be for eastern scotland, eastern england, and then through the day, breaking out with the heat of the sun at this time, or the strength of the sun at this time, across england and wales. so once again, some torrential downpours are possible. 20—21 in the south. wi