Subsequent season, the ladies’s skilled home T20 and 50-over competitions can be merged with the lads’s competitors for the primary time.
The 2025 marketing campaign will see eight skilled girls’s groups competing within the inaugural Vitality Blast and Metro Financial institution One Day Cup competitions.
The matches can be held alongside the lads’s matches, with the England and Wales Cricket Board trying to assist the ladies’s sport develop.
“A key driver of the restructuring of ladies’s skilled cricket is to allow us to higher leverage the attain and current scale of males’s county cricket to speed up fan base progress for our girls’s groups and gamers,” the ladies’s skilled sport mentioned.
“Waiting for the 2025 season, we’re very happy to have the ability to totally revamp the lads’s and girls’s home white-ball competitions for the primary time.”
Durham, Essex, Hampshire, Lancashire, Nottinghamshire, Somerset, Surrey and Warwickshire had been awarded Tier 1 standing by the ECB in April as a part of the ladies’s home squad for 2025 A part of the ball reorganization.
They are going to all compete underneath the identify of their respective counties, aside from the Trent Bridge-based workforce which is able to proceed to be often known as ‘The Blaze’.
Warwickshire will use the identify Birmingham Bears within the Vitality Blast, like their males’s workforce, whereas Pink Rose County can be often known as Lancashire Thunder.
As with the ‘vitality blast’ males’s remaining day, the ladies’s competitors will culminate on the ladies’s remaining day, whereas the lads’s and girls’s Metrobank One-Day Cup competitions will every characteristic two semi-finals and a flagship remaining.
The match schedule and venues can be introduced later this yr and it’s anticipated that the lads’s and girls’s doubles matches might kind a part of a dynamic schedule.
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