The England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB) has introduced the creation of a three-tiered home competitors construction and a shift within the possession mannequin underpinning the ladies’s skilled recreation.In addition to the brand new construction, the ECB will make investments an additional £4-5m per yr within the ladies's skilled recreation from 2025-2028. This can take …
The England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB) has introduced the creation of a three-tiered home competitors construction and a shift within the possession mannequin underpinning the ladies’s skilled recreation.
In addition to the brand new construction, the ECB will make investments an additional £4-5m per yr within the ladies’s skilled recreation from 2025-2028. This can take annual funding as much as £16m.
The plan will see the present eight ladies’s Regional groups evolve to grow to be ‘Tier 1 Golf equipment’ and every will probably be ‘owned, ruled, and operated by a person First Class County (FCC) or Marylebone Cricket Membership (MCC)’.
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Every of the 18 FCCs and MCC have acquired an invite to tender a bid to grow to be a ladies’s Tier 1 membership and have till March 10 to submit their software.
Underneath the present plans, all through the 2025-2028 seasons all three tiers will probably be ‘closed’, with no promotion or relegation.
These golf equipment will make up the highest tier of the brand new three-tier mannequin and can take part within the ECB’s ladies’s skilled T20 and 50-over competitions from 2025 onwards.
As soon as this course of is accomplished, these FCCs not awarded Tier 1 standing and Nationwide Counties will probably be invited into the method to find out Tier 2 and Tier 3 golf equipment.
ECB chief government Richard Gould mentioned: “Since 2020, via the appearance of the ladies’s regional mannequin, we’ve seen important progress within the professionalisation of ladies’s cricket, however we’re nonetheless solely simply scratching the floor of its potential.
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“To proceed shifting ahead, and to make cricket a gender-balanced sport, we’d like a change within the possession mannequin and governance construction underpinning the ladies’s skilled recreation.
“This invitation to tender and the uplift in funding due to this fact represents our subsequent step: a step that can embed the possession of our eight ladies’s skilled groups inside the recreation, drive accountability, and elevate the standing of ladies’s home cricket to allow it to go additional, develop sooner and attain its full potential.”
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ECB director of ladies’s skilled recreation, Beth Barrett-Wild, mentioned: “The tempo and nature of change inside the ladies’s cricket panorama during the last 10 years, however particularly the final 5, has been fast and transformational.
“The variety of alternatives for women and girls to entry the game has by no means been higher, and the variety of folks following and falling in love with the ladies’s recreation has by no means been greater.
“We imagine that the subsequent chapter is much less concerning the separate transformation of ladies’s cricket and extra about the entire recreation evolving collectively.
“The invitation to tender issued to all 18 of our FCCs and MCC as we speak to progress the possession and governance of our eight ladies’s skilled groups, together with the numerous enlargement of the ladies’s home competitors construction from 2025 and uplift in funding, signify essential subsequent steps in cricket evolving into the game we wish it to be.
“One with equality of alternative for women and men, girls and boys, to really feel like it’s a recreation for them.”
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