da roleta： A total of 37 teams across all three tiers will contest new ‘FA Cup-style’ T20 competition
da apostebet： ESPNcricinfo staff20-Nov-2024A total of 37 teams have learned their paths in the new Vitality T20 Women’s County Cup competition starting in England and Wales next year.The knockout competition will take place across May, involving sides from all three tiers of domestic women’s cricket and using the Bank Holidays at the beginning and end of the month to decide the first domestic silverware of 2025.In the first year of a revamped women’s domestic structure, Tier 1 teams will enter the competition at Round Three. As it is a knock-out contest, teams in Tier 2 and Tier 3 have a chance to eliminate the fully professional Tier 1 sides en route to Finals Day, featuring both semi-finals and the final at Taunton on Monday, May 26.Round One will be played on Monday, May 5, and Round Two on Saturday, May 10. With two Round Three ties featuring clashes between Tier 1 sides – including Surrey vs Hampshire Hawks – on May 17, the competition is guaranteed to have at least two teams from Tiers 2 or 3 in the quarter-finals a week later.England batter Danni Wyatt-Hodge, who recently joined Surrey from the Hampshire-based Southern Vipers, was excited by the prospect of that battle.”I’d love to play in that one,” Wyatt-Hodge said from South Africa where England were preparing to begin their multi-format series with Sunday’s first T20I in East London. “I’m really delighted with my move to Surrey, they are a massive club and it will be an honour to play for Surrey. We’ve got a lot of cricket to play before then, but exciting times ahead for sure.””It’s massive, it makes every game very exciting, FA-Cup style,” she added of the new competition. “Women’s cricket is going to the next level in England so it’s great to see and great to be a part of it.”The highlight of Round One looms as a clash between cross-town rivals Middlesex and Kent, who both missed out on gaining Tier 1 status for their counties during the first phase of the restructure which runs from the 2025 season to 2028.The T20 Women’s County Cup will be played in addition to the Vitality Blast women’s T20 competition featuring only Tier 1 sides, with fixtures to be released on Thursday.T20 Women’s County Cup fixturesROUND ONE (May 5)Match 1: Lincolnshire v CheshireMatch 2: Staffordshire v CumbriaMatch 3: Northumberland – BYEMatch 4: Yorkshire v Derbyshire FalconsMatch 5: Leicestershire Foxes – BYEMatch 6: Shropshire v NorfolkMatch 7: Cambridgeshire v HerefordshireMatch 8: Northamptonshire Steelbacks v Worcestershire RapidsMatch 9: Sussex Sharks v BuckinghamshireMatch 10: Suffolk – BYEMatch 11: Hertfordshire v Bedfordshire & HuntingdonshireMatch 12: Middlesex v KentMatch 13: Cornwall v BerkshireMatch 14: Wiltshire v OxfordshireMatch 15: Dorset v DevonMatch 16: Glamorgan v GloucestershireROUND TWO (May 10)Match 17: Yorkshire or Derbyshire Falcons v Staffordshire or CumbriaMatch 18: Leicestershire Foxes v Lincolnshire or CheshireMatch 19: Shropshire or Norfolk v Northamptonshire Steelbacks or Worcestershire RapidsMatch 20: Northumberland v Cambridgeshire or HerefordshireMatch 21: Glamorgan or Gloucestershire v Sussex Sharks or BuckinghamshireMatch 22: Cornwall or Berkshire v Middlesex or KentMatch 23: Wiltshire or Oxfordshire v Hertfordshire or Bedfordshire & HuntingdonshireMatch 24: Devon or Dorset v SuffolkROUND THREE (May 17)Match 25: Surrey v Hampshire HawksMatch 26: Winner of Match 24 v BearsMatch 27: Winner of Match 19 v Winner of Match 18Match 28: Winner of Match 21 v Lancashire ThunderMatch 29: Winner of Match 17 v EssexMatch 30: Winner of Match 23 v The BlazeMatch 31: Winner of Match 20 v Winner of Match 22Match 32: Somerset v DurhamQUARTER-FINALS (May 24)Match 33: Winner of Match 25 v Winner of Match 32Match 34: Winner of Match 31 v Winner of Match 30Match 35: Winner of Match 27 v Winner of Match 28Match 36: Winner of Match 29 v Winner of Match 26FINALS DAY (May 26, Taunton)Match 37: Semi-Final 1: Winner of Match 35 v Winner of Match 34Match 38: Semi-Final 2: Winner of Match 36 v Winner of Match 33Match 39: Final
