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ECB's new T20 league's fate
Rob Johnston • Last updated on Sun, 04 Feb, 2018, 03:25 PM
ShareTweetShare Cricbuzz understands that all traditional Test match grounds have
unsurprisingly put in bids to host the new teams. © Getty Decision day is looming for the
first-class counties who have bid to host one of the eight teams in English cricket's planned
new T20 competition. After weeks of deliberation by the ECB panel tasked with deciding the
venues, the counties will find out on February 14 whether they have been successful and
some are likely to be left disappointed. The new tournament, scheduled to begin in 2020,
will consist of eight city-based teams playing 36 games in total during high summer. Each
team will play four home matches and there will be an IPL style play-off system as well as a
player draft. There will also be some free-to-air TV exposure. ECB also hope the new
tournament will help grow the game in England in much the same way that the Big Bash has
done in Australia. Cricbuzzunderstands that all the traditional Test match grounds - Lord's,
The Oval, Edgbaston, Old Trafford, Headingley and Trent Bridge - have unsurprisingly put in
bids to host the new teams. There have also been bids from Hampshire, Durham and
Glamorgan while Gloucestershire and Somerset are understood to have applied too,
although their bids may just be for individual matches. With more applications than teams to
host, some counties are likely to be left disappointed when the decision is announced. "We
have submitted an application to host one of the new T20 teams at Edgbaston,"
Warwickshire CEO Neil Snowball confirmed to Cricbuzz. "We have the largest cricket venue
outside of London at 25,000 capacity and with Birmingham being the youngest city in the
country in terms of demographics plus a large South Asian population, we are confident that
the new competition has the potential to be a huge success in the second city." It is
inconceivable that the ECB will not choose the six major Test match grounds to be hosts.
The competition - which was predicted last year to make a GBP 15 million loss in its first
season - will need as many ticket sales as it can get to drive revenue, so hosting the
matches in the biggest cities at grounds with the biggest capacities makes sense. However,
some areas of the country, such as the south-west and north-east, could end up not
represented at all. One county chairman told Cricbuzzthat he expected the ECB to choose
the largest Test match grounds as the main venues but stipulate that some matches must
be played elsewhere in a bid to spread things around the country. That could mean the likes
of Durham and the Olympic Stadium in London potentially hosting individual matches. That
approach would also take some of the pressure off the main venues who would otherwise
be expected to sell out four home matches in a short space of time. It is also understood
that another possibility which the ECB are considering, proposed by some of the bidding
counties, is for a team located in the south-west to have their home games rotated between
Bristol, Taunton and Cardiff instead of them being based at just one venue. Choosing
Taunton as a venue was, however, described by one county source as "unlikely" although
sharing games between Cardiff and Bristol, two current international grounds, is another
option. The venue selection has been one of the more sensitive issues surrounding the
proposed tournament. Although it was overwhelmingly voted in by the counties last year,
there is a fear among some of the smaller first-class clubs that by hosting all the teams at
the traditional Test match grounds it will increase the gap - already present in prestige,
finance and playing resources - between the counties who currently host international
cricket and those who do not. The ECB have tried to allay these fears by guaranteeing all
first-class counties an annual minimum sum of either GBP 1.3 million or a share of net
revenues from the competition, whichever is higher, but there is still some uncertainty about