By Paul Edwards

Plan: Martyn Moxon

THE summer of 2020, which was already due to see new T20 franchises introduced, could now witness a thoroughgoing revolution in English cricket if a plan to replace the current divisional structure of the County Championship with a conference system is implemented by the ECB.
The radical change would involve splitting the 18 counties into three six-team conferences of approximately equal strength with each county playing each other home and away. Depending on their final position in each of these groups after ten games, the counties would then be divide...