The Hundred is more than just another competition for women’s cricket. The Women’s County Championship – the one-day tournament for all 35 first-class and non-first-class teams, adding Scotland and the Netherlands – and eight regional centers of excellence in tandem with the eight fresh Women’s Hundred sides. That requires severe investment. So over two years, the ECB has pledged a fresh £ 20m to the women’s sport, divided approximately evenly between results and involvement.
The England Cricket Board did not have all they wished: they were forced to jump over schemes to get rid of women’s county cricket completely after six county councils allegedly vowed to create their own splinter club. So, the Women’s Vitality Blast is set to proceed in May and June 2020 and 2021, and the counties could theoretically arrange bilateral fixtures. That will even leave various beginner region players, maybe those not exactly sufficient to measure up at the focuses, or who wish to remain in full-time jobs – expected to manage with club cricket for a great part of the time.
Some club stalwarts state that women club cricket has really got less aggressive lately, because of the best players playing for their county. It is important to considerably hike the pay for domestic leagues. The ECB’s managing director of women’s cricket, Clare Connor will have been acutely mindful that any new broadcast short-structure rivalry would look to put people’s cricket on a comparable platform and under a similar marking. That was without a doubt a great part of the new challenge’s fascination in the BBC, which is glad for its inclusion of women’s game.
This being the tangled trap of English cricket, drawing the limits for the eight locales will have been a full procedure for the ECB. The tip-top improvement of players will tumble to these focuses on the brilliance and their feeder foundations. There will be proficient degrees of instructing, preparing, science and drug, and the eight groups will contend with one another in 50-over and T20 rivalries. The Kia Super League has been a significant move in remedying this, but it will be set away after four quarters to create room for The Hundred. KSL will continue to be in position until October 2020.
All this implies fresh training and leadership levels: a head coach will talk to a cricket manager; for the few decades, staff will be delegated to The Hundred. It is anticipated that all KSL staff will qualify for these fresh employments. The selection process of the teams will be different. It will be a ‘two-stage, open market system’ where each team will sign 2 on the England women’s central contract list.
In any case, with two a larger number of Women’s Hundred groups than the KSL, and only three abroad players in every XI, the principal couple of seasons will be a genuine trial of the quality of English women’s cricket.
News By James Coyne for The Cricketer
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