Subsequent season, the ladies’s skilled home T20 and 50-over competitions shall 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 shall 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 raised leverage the affect and present scale of males’s county cricket to speed up fan base development for ladies’s groups and gamers,” the ladies’s skilled sport mentioned.
“Looking forward to the 2025 season, we’re very happy to have the ability to totally revamp the lads’s and ladies’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’ll all compete beneath their respective county names, aside from the Trent Bridge-based group which can proceed to be often known as ‘The Blaze’.
Warwickshire will use the identify Birmingham Bears within the Vitality Blast, like their males’s group, whereas Purple Rose County shall be often known as Lancashire Thunder.
As with the ‘vitality blast’ males’s ultimate day, the ladies’s competitors will culminate on the ladies’s ultimate day, whereas the lads’s and ladies’s Metrobank One-Day Cup competitions will every characteristic two semi-finals and a flagship ultimate.
The event schedule and venues shall be introduced later this 12 months and it’s anticipated that the lads’s and ladies’s doubles matches could type a part of a dynamic schedule.
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