The ECB have actually revealed the draw for the first-ever T20 Women’s County Cup which is readied to happen following year, disclosing that finals day for the competitors will certainly encounter England’s T20I collection versus the West Indies.
The brand-new competitors becomes part of the ECB’s ‘Project Darwin’ restructure of females’s residential cricket in England andWales It will certainly see the recently placed Tier Two and Three regions handle the expert 8 Tier One regions in an FA Cup design competitors. In all, 37 groups will certainly contend in the Cup, which will certainly adhere to a knock-out style from the beginning.
Rounds one and 2 of the competitors will certainly be played solely in between the reduced tiered regions, with the first 2 rounds of components happening on Monday, May 5 and Saturday May 10 specifically. From rounded 3 onwards, the expert Tier One regions will certainly sign up with the battle royal, with 6 of those sides dealing with victors from the previous 2 rounds of the competitors. That assurances that a minimum of 2 groups from Tiers Two or Three will certainly include in the quarter-finals, which will certainly happen on Saturday, May 24.
While the timetable for the competitors makes use of the national holiday throughout May to attract larger groups in, it does give an encounter England females’s T20I collection versus the West Indies, suggesting a number of top-level names will certainly not be offered for the later rounds of competitors.
England start their first collection of the summertime on May 21 in Canterbury, 4 days after the first components which the expert Tier One sides will certainly be associated with throughout the competitors. The 2nd suit of the collection occurs on May 23, the day prior to the quarter-finals result from happen. The most regrettable clash nonetheless, gets on the Finals Day of the Cup.
Both semi-finals and the last will certainly be used the exact same day at Taunton on Monday, May 26. That coincides day that England play the last T20I of their collection versus West Indies inChelmsford That indicates that those gamers associated with that suit will certainly not be offered for the first-ever Finals Day of the County Cup.
With an overhauled residential framework suggesting much more females’s residential suits than ever will certainly be played throughout the summertime, organizing encounter global components – which will certainly not happen throughout the secured home window for The Hundred – will certainly be more probable. The components for the inaugural version of the females’s Blast competitors will certainly be revealed tomorrow (November 21).
T20 Women’s County Cup 2025: Full components checklist
Round One (Monday, May 5)
Match 1: Lincolnshire v Cheshire
Match 2: Staffordshire v Cumbria
Match 3: Northumberland– BYE
Match 4: Yorkshire v Derbyshire Falcons
Match 5: Leicestershire Foxes– BYE
Match 6: Shropshire v Norfolk
Match 7: Cambridgeshire v Herefordshire
Match 8: Northamptonshire Steelbacks v Worcestershire Rapids
Match 9: Sussex Sharks v Buckinghamshire
Match 10: Suffolk– BYE
Match 11: Hertfordshire v Bedfordshire & & Huntingdonshire
Match 12: Middlesex v Kent
Match 13: Cornwall v Berkshire
Match 14: Wiltshire v Oxfordshire
Match 15: Dorset v Devon
Match 16:Glamorgan v Gloucestershire
Round Two( Saturday, May 10)
Match 17: Yorkshire or Derbyshire Falcons v Staffordshire or Cumbria
Match 18: Leicestershire Foxes v Lincolnshire or Cheshire
Match 19: Shropshire or Norfolk v Northamptonshire Steelbacks or Worcestershire Rapids
Match 20: Northumberland v Cambridgeshire or Herefordshire
Match 21: Glamorgan or Gloucestershire v Sussex Sharks or Buckinghamshire
Match & 22: Cornwall or Berkshire v Middlesex or Kent
Match 23: Wiltshire or Oxfordshire v Hertfordshire or Bedfordshire & Huntingdonshire
Match 24: Devon or Dorset v Suffolk
Round Three (Saturday, May 17)
Match 25: Surrey v Hampshire Hawks
Match 26: Winner of Match 24 v Bears
Match 27: Winner of Match 19 v Winner of Match 18
Match 28: Winner of Match 21 v Lancashire Thunder
Match 29: Winner of Match 17 v Essex
Match 30: Winner of Match 23 v The Blaze
Match 31: Winner of Match 20 v Winner of Match 22
Match 32: Somerset v Durham
Quarter -finals (Saturday, May 24)
Match 33: Winner of Match 25 v Winner of Match 32
Match 34: Winner of Match 31 v Winner of Match 30
Match 35: Winner of Match 27 v(* )of(* )28Winner 36:Match of
Match 29 v Winner ofMatch 26 Winner( Match,
Finals Day 26, Monday)May 37:Taunton –
Match 1:Semi ofFinal 35 vWinner of Match 34 Winner 38:Match –
Match 2:Semi ofFinal 36 v Winner of Match 33 Winner 39: Match’s
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