Specialist printers Reprovision has struck a winning deal with the English Cricket Board.

The Drighlington company has secured a contract to print the Board's rules, regulations and fixture lists for the 2001 season.

Reprovision has teamed up with the Lords marketing department to produce 200,000 copies of its 64-page Cricket Fixture List and 3,000 copies of the 250-page First Class Rules and Regulations booklet.

Its next task will be to distribute the Rules booklets to clubs throughout the UK.

Managing director Jason Clay, 28, said: "This is a very important job for us and we are obviously delighted to have been awarded the contract.

"We have already produced one of the booklets in just ten days, half the time normally taken by printers, and we are working with the Royal Mail to ensure distribution of the finished products is also more efficient than ever before."

For Reprovision, now based in larger premises at the Adwalton Business Park off the M62, the cricket contract comes hot on the heels of several other major deals.

These include a contract to produce and distribute two million promotional leaflets for BUPA Care Services's network of residential homes.

Reprovision has invested £2 million in new technology and moved to 24 hour shifts, taking on six new employees, to cope with all the new business.

For now, though, Mr Clay is concentrating on the job in hand.

"I may not be much good at cricket, but I do come from Yorkshire and I have the pedigree of our famous cricketing county to think about," he said.