The England Cricket Board has introduced names of a number of Girls’s groups that may now get promoted to a Tier 2 standing. The ECB names these Tier 2 groups to play in 20-over and 50-over matches for a brand new Girls’s home collection beginning 2025.
Whereas the competitors competitors construction and schedule for the 2025 season remains to be unknown, tier 3 standing can be awarded to all Nationwide Counties who wish to take part within the new competitions at that degree from 2025.
These are the Tier 2 groups as named by the ECB
The ECB has named these Tier 2 groups to play in 20-over and 50-over matches for a brand new Girls’s home collection to start out from 2025Starting subsequent yr, Derbyshire, Glamorgan, Gloucestershire, Kent, Leicestershire, Northamptonshire, Middlesex, Sussex, Worcestershire, and Yorkshire will make up the second tier of the brand new home ladies’s competitions in England and Wales.
The ECB introduced that from 2025 to 2028, the three tiers can be closed with no promotion or relegation. A knockout cup competitors, that includes groups from all tiers, may even be launched in 2025, permitting all counties to compete towards one another.
Earlier this yr, the ECB introduced that Durham, Essex, Surrey, Hampshire, Lancashire, Nottinghamshire, Somerset, and Warwickshire will be a part of Tier 1 in 2025. Yorkshire and Glamorgan will take part 2026 and 2027, respectively, with Tier 1 increasing to 12 groups by 2029.
Here is what the director of Girls’s skilled cricket stated
Beth Barrett-Wild, director of the ladies’s skilled sport, stated: “It is thrilling to see the three tiers finalised. It brings the brand new panorama of ladies’s skilled home cricket one step nearer.”
“From subsequent summer season we are going to see as much as 39 counties competing throughout the brand new construction, which can each accommodate the expansion and speed up the depth of the ladies’s skilled sport – on and off the sector.” Barret-Wild added
“We should not underestimate how huge this step is for girls’s cricket and certainly the entire sport; a thriving and sustainable ladies’s home pyramid beneath the Hundred and England Girls, with extra skilled feminine gamers, elevated funding, and enhanced alignment throughout the lads’s and ladies’s sport, is a large step ahead for cricket.” Beth additionally stated.
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