Plans for an English Twenty20 league to rival the Indian Premier league have been announced by the ECB.
The league will start in June 2010 and will include all 18 counties and not city franchises as discussed before. The league will also include two overseas teams making two leagues of ten.
Giles Clarke, the ECB chairman said: “I am delighted that the board unanimously supported these creative proposals and I would like to congratulate everyone for their hard work and thank those who went to considerable time and trouble to produce documents for discussion.
“We have already received enormous broadcast and sponsor interest from around the world which was reported to the Board by the chief executive David Collier.”
