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    Northants submitted a bid in March to become one of the eight counties to be awarded Tier 1 status, but they have been overlooked by the England & Wales Cricket Board. The counties awarded Tier 1 status from 2025 are Durham, Essex, Hampshire, Lancashire, Nottinghamshire, Somerset, Surrey and Warwickshire. In addition to those eight counties, Glamorgan and Yorkshire will host Tier 1 teams from 2027, when the new competition will be expanded to 10 teams. There are also plans for two further...

  • Durham selected ahead of Yorkshire to host professional women’s county team

    Yorkshire edged out by neighbours in north-eastEssex, Hants, Lancs, Notts, Somerset, Surrey, Warks also get nodDurham’s chief executive, Tim Bostock, said he was “delighted” with the ECB’s decision to award the county the right to host a professional women’s team, after they beat off strong competition from neighbouring Yorkshire.The first-class counties have spent the past two and a half months competing for the right to host one of the eight new professional “Tier 1” women’s teams, and in...

  • ECB denies Yorkshire ‘punished for past sins’ with women’s county team snub

    Club ‘disappointed’ and now risk losing personnel to rivalsHeather Knight says cricket will be more viable career optionRichard Gould, the chief executive of the England and Wales Cricket Board, has stressed that Yorkshire initially missing out on the revamp of the professional women’s game is not a case of the club being “punished for past sins”.From next year the current eight-team regional women’s system will switch to 15-strong full-time squads run directly by eight ­counties. ­Durham,...