- New model for 2025 season will feature eight ‘Tier 1’ sides
- ECB inviting bids from first-class counties to run a team
Women’s domestic cricket is to undergo a huge shake-up under new plans from the England and Wales Cricket Board in which ownership of teams would be transferred back to the first-class counties.
Currently there are eight independent regional teams, owned and funded centrally by the ECB. Under the new model – which will come in for the 2025 season – the counties will take direct responsibility for overseeing and growing women’s teams.
Written by Raf Nicholson
This news first appeared on https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2024/feb/01/womens-cricket-ecb-counties-the-hundred under the title “Women’s cricket to undergo domestic shake-up with teams owned by counties”. Bolchha Nepal is not responsible or affiliated towards the opinion expressed in this news article.
