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Jonathan Agnew will step down as the BBC's cricket correspondent after 33 years in the role. He has however signed a four year deal to continue to work on Test Match Special.

Melissa Story and Katherine Sciver-Brunt the other new names to the TMS roster listed below.

I wonder who will replace Aggers, or will anyone at all? Firstly, almost everyone else is freelance and works on other broadcasters through the year - Alison Mitchell an obvious candidate and example who works for Channel 7 in the Australian summer. Secondly, I don't think Mike Costello was ever formally replaced as boxing/athletics correspondent, and similarly Cornelius Lysaght and James Allen in horse racing and motorsport (though in most of those examples, there is a voice of the sport on BBC radio as a de facto successor (Steve Bunce, John Hunt etc.)). There are a few cricket specialists inbolved in writing for the BBC Sport website, so not much loss in a journalistic sense if there us no titled correspondent.

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Sciver - Brunt was on the coverage of the Women’s ashes last year.

Notable they haven’t yet secured the radio rights for the T20 World Cup, The Telegraph says they still haven’t been sold but the other month it said the BBC were the front runners ahead of Talksport. Would be Talksport’s biggest cricketing commitment if they won then and the next 50 over World Cup as well.