Sheridan pointed to the format of The Hundred, which incorporates males’s and girls’s competitions with double-header matches on the similar venue every day, and the existence of the counties’ T20 Blast.
“The UK has acquired an 18-team short-form match,” he stated.
“One of many particular issues about The Hundred has been the double-header, top-level ladies’s cricket alongside top-level males’s cricket, and there ought to be a concentrate on getting that higher and higher.
“Enlargement solely is smart if this competitors grows very strongly over that time period, a fast interval.”
Banerjee, who oversaw the gross sales of stakes within the eight current Hundred groups, defined that enlargement would rely on the monetary advantages, figuring out appropriate venues and having the depth of gamers to fill extra squads.
By way of location, Durham’s Chester-le-Road and a floor within the south west, Somerset or Gloucestershire, can be the most certainly candidates for a brand new staff.
The ECB has been adamant that The Hundred won’t take up any further area within the calendar, sticking to a window of 4 weeks within the college summer time holidays.
Given the present format consists of every staff taking part in eight group matches – six opponents as soon as and their nearest rivals twice – increasing to 9 groups taking part in one another as soon as wouldn’t drastically inflate the variety of video games performed, supporting the assertion that it’s potential to develop The Hundred throughout the present window.
Nevertheless, progress to 10 groups may result in 13 extra group video games than the present schedule if every staff performed each other as soon as.
Shashwat Goenka, vice-chair of the RPSG Group, stated: “Globally now we have seen some sporting occasions expanded by way of quite a lot of franchises being added.
“If you have a look at it from a earlier than and after scenario, the general occasion and particular person franchises have all the time carried out higher as soon as extra groups have been launched.
“These groups typically get launched as soon as there’s a sure base that has been established for a contest.”
