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There need to be at least six fewer counties

Posted on | April 5, 2010 | 1 Comment

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  1. David Silver
    May 2nd, 2010 @ 9:24 am

    I think I might have raised this earlier but advancing years means I may have also forgotten to send it. I would like to see 6 regional teams only, with 3 counties combining to form such a team. Here are my suggestions :
    NORTHERNS – includes Lancashire, Yorkshire and Co.Durham
    EASTERNS – includes Notts, Derbyshire and Leicestershire
    MIDLANDS – includes Warwickshire, worcestershire and Northants
    WESTERNS – includes Somerset, Gloucestershire and Glamorgan
    SOUTH EASTERNS – includes Essex, Sussex and Kent
    SOUTHERNS – includes Hampshire, Surrey and Middlesex

    The grounds with minimum 20,000 seat capacity are the chosen grounds to be the home of the region. Grounds less than this shoudl be redeveloped to acommodate minimum 20,000. All regional grounds must have floodlighting for Day/Night limited overs and Twenty20 matches.
    The other 2 grounds in the regions could be either sold off to provide funding for the regional ground, or dropped to 2nd tier club cricket.
    Suggested regional grounds :
    NORTHERNS – HEADINGLEY (Cap 20,000 Centrally based)
    EASTERNS – TRENT BRIDGE (upgrade from 17,500 to 20,000 min)
    MIDLANDS – Edgbaston(Cap 21,000)
    WESTERNS – Sophia Gardens (Cap 16,500 upgrade to min 20,000)
    SOUTH EASTERNS – Canterbury (Cap 15,000, upgrade to min 20,000)
    SOUTHERNS – Lords (Cap 32,000)or alternatively use the Oval (Cap 23,500) and use Lords as the “Wembley stadium” of cricket.

    All these teams play 3 day 75 over per innings, 2 innings “county” games as well as the other formats. All matches result in a win, excluding weather effects.

    I have more thoughts on this too, but how about this for a major redevelopment of English cricket ?

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