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Part of this statement is word for word for what was in the Derbyshire statement, words here attributed to Steve Denison:
From Yorkshire CCC website
The Board of The Yorkshire County Cricket Club has unanimously approved a change to the ECB Articles of Association in order to facilitate a new T20 competition in England and Wales, which will commence in the year 2020.
The Club has attended many consultative meetings with the ECB over the last 18 months, and Gordon Hollins, the Chief Operating Officer of the ECB, was present at a Members Forum in the Long Room on Friday 7 April, when Members were able to discuss the implications of the new competition.
Club Chairman, Steve Denison, commented: “This is not just about a new city based T20 competition. It is all to do with the ECB’s ‘Cricket Unleashed’ strategy, which is setting out to broaden the appeal of cricket to a much wider audience. Cricket needs to attract boys and girls to the game through the All Stars Cricket programme, and through greater exposure on mobile devices, tablets, as well as television.
“Headingley hopes that it will be one of the chosen grounds for the new competition, but the Club understands that this may well be predicated on the development of the new North/South Stand, in conjunction with Leeds Rugby.”
Gloucestershire CCC
ReplyDeleteAt the lunch interval on Days 1 and 2 of our Specsavers County Championship Match v Leicestershire (Friday 14 and Saturday 15 April), Will Brown (Chief Executive GCCC) will be hosting a Members’/Spectators’ Forum in the Jessop Suite at the Brightside Ground, Bristol.
This forum has been arranged with a view to presenting the ECB’s latest thinking on the proposed new Twenty20 competition.
Members will also have the opportunity to ask any questions they may have.