This week:
- The issues with NZ’s domestic structure & how the ICC could help
- Why NZC turned down a Test for the White Ferns, & was it the right call?
- ECB’s plan to sell The Hundred goes belly up…
- …as do plans for a Super T10 in Scotland
CRICKETher
Women's Cricket News & Views
CRICKETher 
So despite your previous insistence that all was OK in Hundred world, do you now admit that it’s in massive trouble? At least for a few years down the line? Even if the ECB move the goalposts again and sell most/all of the stakes to investors, the clear signs are they’re going to ends up many millions of pounds below what they’d hoped and planned for. This is increasingly looking like a huge ECB gamble gone wrong. I think they’ve known it for a while.
I’m not complaining about the Hundred in general because it’s been brilliant for women’s cricket .
Perhaps that’s a lens the new tiered women’s county system should be looked at through, though – a projected post-hundred era. If we go back in time and the ECB didn’t suggest an entirely new format for anew set of franchise teams, but suggested a tried and trusted format for the teams they already had in existence for a long time (the counties) we’d kind of be in the same place. In that sense, one thing the Hundred has achieved is making the counties take women’s cricket seriously, but the ECB took a very expensive and scenic route to make a point.
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