As competitions more closely coincide with men's region setup, the Charlotte Edwards Cup and Rachael Heyhoe Flint Trophy have been replaced.
Following time, England's best women's team will compete in their own variation of the Vitality Blast and Metro Bank One-Day Cup, bringing the new home events closer to home.
The children's T20 and 50-over events, which have been ongoing since 2020, will now be replaced by the Charlotte Edwards Cup and Rachael Heyhoe Flint Trophy. The Metro Bank One-Day Cup children's team will continue to compete for the Rachael Heyhoe Flint Trophy.
Since the ECB made the decision to overhaul the local women's framework in February, it has been discussed the possibility of matching contests with the ability to play some matches as double-headers. That was confirmed on Thursday with the news that T20 partner Vitality and Metro Bank, which now sponsors the men's 50-over competition, may further their expense in the women's game.
As with the Men's Blast, the women's competition will result in a Vitality Blast Women's Finals Day, while the people's and children's Metro Bank One-Day Cup events will each have two semi-finals and a last.
In the Metro Bank One-Day Cup, the eight women's teams will thrive as Durham, Essex, Hampshire, Lancashire, Somerset, Surrey, Warwickshire and The Blaze, representing Nottinghamshire- who along with the other seven teams were awarded Tier 1 standing under the fresh structure- and surrounds.
The eight women's Blast teams will be Birmingham Bears ( representing Warwickshire ), Durham, Essex, Hampshire, Lancashire Thunder, Somerset, Surrey and The Blaze.
The top-flight children's contests are set to grow to encompass Yorkshire from 2026 and Welsh state Glamorgan from 2027.
The 2025 schedule will also include a knockout cup competition involving teams from all three levels of the increased women's private structure, with the goal of allowing all counties to square off against one another and give players from other pyramids the chance to compete against higher-ranked teams.
In 2025, Tier 2 may include Derbyshire, Glamorgan, Gloucestershire, Kent, Leicestershire, Northamptonshire, Middlesex, Sussex, Worcestershire and Yorkshire.
The women's expert game's ECB director, Beth Barrett-Wild, stated:" A big factor in the reorganization of women's expert cricket has been how we can greater leverage the liquidity and existing level of men's county cricket to help our women's teams and players grow in fan bases." Looking ahead to the 2025 time, we're so truly excited to entirely align our men's and women's home white-ball competitions for the first time.
We think that by putting our men's and women's events and players on the same platform and expanding the breadth of supporters ' feelings for our children's teams moving forward, we can exponentially increase the reach of the domestic sport, as we have seen through the Hundred and position of our England Men's and Women's teams.
By 2027, an annual investment of about £19 million will be made in women's domestic cricket under the new professional structure, an influx of funds the ECB believes will result in an 80 % increase in the number of professional female players in England and Wales by 2029. The decision on player salaries will be made by counties.
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