THE Cheshire Women’s Cricket League will be re-organised next season – with three divisions instead of two.
Champions Appleton will be in division one and Lymm Oughtrington Park, who last season played only Twenty20 knock-out cricket, will join the new Division Three.
Two new clubs are joining – Didsbury and a new side from Hope, in North East Wales.
This team will play their matches at three clubs in the area, Norhop, Northop Hall and Pontblyddyn.
Division One will consist of five teams who will each play each other twice and also play each of the Division Two sides once.
One team will be relegated from Division One and one promoted from Division Two. No team will be relegated from Division Two.
The Twenty20 divisional competition will be played in three regional divisions, before the top two in each division and the two best third placed teams go forward to a quarter final round. The losing quarter-finalists will make up the Plate semi-finals.
Further evidence of the strides the Cheshire Women’s League has made in recent years is the news that the ECB has allocated the weekend of September 22-23 for the league’s winners to play in a Shield tournament against the winners of three of its regional leagues: South West, East Anglia and Northern.
Coincidentally, in the draw for the first round of the knock-out competition, the two Warrington sides – Lymm Lightning and Appleton Tigers – have been drawn against each other.
TWO Warrington clubs will be competing in the Cheshire Women's Cricket League when it is re-organised next season - with three divisions instead of two.
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