Raf Nicholson looks at how the new-look domestic structure can help take English Women’s cricket into a new, fully professional era

Raf Nicholson

After months of speculation, the ECB have finally made an official announcement regarding the new shape of the women’s domestic structure from 2020.
Appearing on Sky ahead of the second Women’s Ashes T20 at Hove, ECB director of women’s cricket Clare Connor stated that the plan is to use part of the ECB’s new £20m investment in women’s and girls’ cricket to establish a new semip...