Australia’s two most populous cricket states, Victoria and New South Wales, considered boycotting a new women’s Twenty20 tournament and playing matches among themselves before reaching a compromise with Cricket Australia on the competition format for this season.
Initially planned to include one team from each of the six states plus a team from the ACT, the T20 tournament following the shortened Women’s Big Bash League is now set to be played by nine teams. Victoria and NSW will field two teams each, while the ACT and the other states will field a team each.
Around 65 per cent of the professional women’s playing group comes from NSW and Victoria. The two states informally discussed contingency plans for their four WBBL clubs to play games against each other while skipping the state-based tournament. But Cricket Victoria, whose chief executive Nick Cummins recently agreed to terms for a three-year contract extension, remained implacable in opposition, with support from Cricket NSW.
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