First-Class Counties Agree To Shortened Format For Shortened Cricket Season

England’s First-Class Counties have agreed to play each red-ball and white-ball cricket throughout this summer season’s shortened males’s home season, the England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB) introduced on Tuesday. Earlier, the ECB Board has additionally authorized the return to coaching of Males’s first-class county gamers on or earlier than July 1. “A majority vote was reached at a gathering of the FCC chairs right now following approval by the ECB Board final month for the brand new season to start on 1 August,” the ECB mentioned in an official assertion.

“At this time’s settlement by the FCCs shall be handed on for ECB Board approval within the coming days after which the main points of the brand new fixture schedule shall be drawn up after which introduced,” it added.

The First-Class Counties will endure medical danger assessments and venue compliance approval to make sure secure environments for the beginning of the boys’s home season.

Final week, the apex physique of cricket in England had allowed counties to have two abroad gamers per aspect in all county competitions from the subsequent season.