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COUNTIES RESCUED AFTER ECB U-TURN

by
The Cricket Paper Team
17 May 2019

Raf Nicholson reports on a change of heart by the authorities following protests over a proposed reduction in the number of teams
In yet another twist in the ongoing saga of what exactly the women’s domestic structure will look like next season, the ECB have done an about-turn and agreed that counties outside of the top eight will still be permitted to run senior women’s county sides.
Previously it had been suggested that many counties’ women’s sides would effectively be abolished, with the ECB concentrating all their resources on the new eight semi-professional r...