 introduced that it's going to helm the creation of a three-tiered home competitors construction and embrace an possession mannequin to evolve the ladies’s skilled recreation. Beneath this plan to revamp girls’s home cricket system within the nation, the prevailing eight girls’s regional groups will evolve to be skilled ‘Tier 1 Golf equipment’ – every owned, ruled, and operated by a person First Class County (FCC) or Marylebone Cricket Membership (MCC). These eight golf equipment will compete within the prime degree of an expanded three-tiered girls’s home construction – collaborating within the ECB’s girls’s skilled T20 and 50-over competitions – from the 2025 season. The 18 FCCs and MCC have due to this fact every now obtained an invite to tender from the ECB to turn out to be a girls’s Tier 1 Membership and have till March 10, 2024 to submit a bid. ECB additionally mentioned it's going to make investments an additional 4-5 million kilos per yr into the ladies’s skilled recreation from 2025-2028, taking the annual funding on this house to 16 million kilos. “Since 2020, by means of the arrival of the ladies’s Regional Mannequin, we have now seen vital progress within the professionalisation of ladies’s cricket, however we're nonetheless solely simply scratching the floor of its potential.” “To proceed transferring ahead, and to make cricket a gender-balanced sport, we want 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 may embed the possession of our eight girls’s skilled groups throughout the recreation, drive accountability, and elevate the standing of ladies’s home cricket to allow it to go additional, develop quicker and attain its full potential, ” mentioned ECB Chief Government Officer Richard Gould. After the conclusion of the tender course of, the ECB mentioned county golf equipment who weren't awarded Tier 1 standing and, individually, all Nationwide Counties will likely be invited to be concerned in a course of to find out the composition of Tier 2 and Tier 3 within the new-look girls’s home competitors construction. ECB additionally mentioned the method will likely be confirmed by September 2024, forward of launching the advanced girls’s home construction in full in 2025. At some stage in the 2025-2028 seasons all three tiers will likely be ‘closed’, with no promotion or relegation. “The invitation to tender issued to all 18 of our FCCs and MCC in the present day to progress the possession and governance of our eight girls’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.” “The tempo and nature of change throughout the girls’s cricket panorama over the past ten years, however particularly the final 5, has been speedy and transformational. The variety of alternatives for women and girls to entry the game has by no means been better, and the variety of folks following and falling in love with the ladies’s recreation has by no means been larger.” “We imagine that the following chapter is much less in regards to the separate transformation of ladies’s cricket and extra about the entire recreation evolving collectively. One with equality of alternative for women and men, girls and boys, to really feel like it's a recreation for them, ” mentioned ECB Director of Ladies’s Skilled Recreation Beth Barrett-Wild. ECB additional mentioned it's going to appoint an Analysis Panel consisting of members of the Board, members of its Government group and unbiased specialists. The ultimate composition and named personnel will likely be confirmed with FCCs/MCC in the end.){kind=link}
LONDON: The England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB) introduced that it’s going to helm the creation of a three-tiered home competitors construction and embrace an possession mannequin to evolve the ladies’s skilled recreation.
Beneath this plan to revamp girls’s home cricket system within the nation, the prevailing eight girls’s regional groups will evolve to be skilled ‘Tier 1 Golf equipment’ – every owned, ruled, and operated by a person First Class County (FCC) or Marylebone Cricket Membership (MCC).
These eight golf equipment will compete within the prime degree of an expanded three-tiered girls’s home construction – collaborating within the ECB’s girls’s skilled T20 and 50-over competitions – from the 2025 season.
The 18 FCCs and MCC have due to this fact every now obtained an invite to tender from the ECB to turn out to be a girls’s Tier 1 Membership and have till March 10, 2024 to submit a bid. ECB additionally mentioned it’s going to make investments an additional 4-5 million kilos per yr into the ladies’s skilled recreation from 2025-2028, taking the annual funding on this house to 16 million kilos.
“Since 2020, by means of the arrival of the ladies’s Regional Mannequin, we have now seen vital progress within the professionalisation of ladies’s cricket, however we’re nonetheless solely simply scratching the floor of its potential.”
“To proceed transferring ahead, and to make cricket a gender-balanced sport, we want 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 may embed the possession of our eight girls’s skilled groups throughout the recreation, drive accountability, and elevate the standing of ladies’s home cricket to allow it to go additional, develop quicker and attain its full potential, ” mentioned ECB Chief Government Officer Richard Gould.
After the conclusion of the tender course of, the ECB mentioned county golf equipment who weren’t awarded Tier 1 standing and, individually, all Nationwide Counties will likely be invited to be concerned in a course of to find out the composition of Tier 2 and Tier 3 within the new-look girls’s home competitors construction.
ECB additionally mentioned the method will likely be confirmed by September 2024, forward of launching the advanced girls’s home construction in full in 2025. At some stage in the 2025-2028 seasons all three tiers will likely be ‘closed’, with no promotion or relegation.
“The invitation to tender issued to all 18 of our FCCs and MCC in the present day to progress the possession and governance of our eight girls’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.”
“The tempo and nature of change throughout the girls’s cricket panorama over the past ten years, however particularly the final 5, has been speedy and transformational. The variety of alternatives for women and girls to entry the game has by no means been better, and the variety of folks following and falling in love with the ladies’s recreation has by no means been larger.”
“We imagine that the following chapter is much less in regards to the separate transformation of ladies’s cricket and extra about the entire recreation evolving collectively. One with equality of alternative for women and men, girls and boys, to really feel like it’s a recreation for them, ” mentioned ECB Director of Ladies’s Skilled Recreation Beth Barrett-Wild.
ECB additional mentioned it’s going to appoint an Analysis Panel consisting of members of the Board, members of its Government group and unbiased specialists. The ultimate composition and named personnel will likely be confirmed with FCCs/MCC in the end.