Peter Hayter spends a day on his sofa enthusing at the expertise of Sky’s coverage at Headingley

SKY TV’s monopoly of live coverage of English cricket may be at an end, with this winter’s Ashes already lost to BT and a commitment from the ECB to guarantee some free-to-air access to their new T20 competition.
Many have presented persuasive arguments as to the detrimental effects of denying the majority of the TV watching public free viewing of the most absorbing sporting soap opera of all ever since, back in 2005, seven million of them tuned into Channel 4 to live the mo...