England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB) has made a change of their home competitions. The ladies’s tournaments, each within the 20-over format and 50-over format, can be performed alongside males’s T20 Blast and the One-Day Cup from the 2025 season.
The 2 ladies’s competitions can be performed rather than the prevailing Charlotte Edwards Cup (T20) and Rachael Heyhoe Flint Trophy (50-over). However they are going to be performed for the trophies that can be named after the 2 England legends.
The restructured home competitions will see eight groups from tier 1 counties in Durham, Essex, Hampshire, Lancashire (Lancashire Thunder), Somerset, Surrey, Warwickshire (Birmingham Bears) and Nottinghamshire (The Blaze). Yorkshire and Glamorgan can be added to the group later.
The T20 Blast can be performed in the identical method as the boys’s competitors. Each semi-finals and finals can be performed on the identical day whereas double headers that includes each the boys’s and the ladies’s recreation have been deliberate much like how The Hundred is at the moment scheduled.
Aside from this, a knockout competitors has been scheduled in 2025 which is able to see groups from all three tiers of the expanded ladies’s home construction. The match has been launched so that each one the counties have the chance to compete towards one another and Check their abilities on the highest ranges.
With the restructuring of the home competitions, the England and Wales Cricket Board expects to see GBP 8 million of funding into ladies’s cricket by 2027 and will see an 80 % improve within the variety of skilled feminine cricketers in England and Wales by 2029.
Excited to totally align our males’s and girls’s home white-ball competitions for the primary time – England’s Director of the Girls’s Skilled Sport, Beth Barrett-Wild,
ECB Director of the Girls’s Skilled Sport, Beth Barrett-Wild, talked in regards to the change within the home competitions, saying that they’re excited to see males’s and girls’s competitions align on the identical time. She added that they need to produce groups that may excite followers and lift the standard of ladies’s cricket.
“A giant driver for the re-organisation of ladies’s skilled cricket has been to allow us to raised use the leverage and current scale of males’s county cricket to speed up fanbase progress for our ladies’s groups and gamers. Looking forward to the 2025 season, we’re due to this fact actually excited to totally align our males’s and girls’s home white-ball competitions for the primary time.
“The following step within the progress of the ladies’s skilled recreation is to supply commercially vibrant and visual groups and competitions that excite followers and proceed to showcase the standard of ladies’s cricket.”
Beth Barrett-Wild whereas citing the instance of The Hundred stated that they need to put gamers on the identical platform. Beth added:
“As we now have seen via The Hundred and alignment of our England Males’s and England Girls’s groups, we imagine that by placing our males’s and girls’s competitions and gamers on the identical platform we are able to exponentially improve the attain of the ladies’s home recreation and intensify the depth of feeling followers have for our ladies’s groups transferring forwards,” she concluded.
