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Vitality Blast: The Kia Oval to host first ever Girls’s Finals Day subsequent season

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The Kia Oval will host the first-ever Vitality Blast Girls’s Finals Day subsequent season following affirmation of the 2025 home finals dates and venues.

A complete of eight home county finals shall be performed throughout males’s, ladies’s and incapacity competitions subsequent season with the historic inaugural Vitality Blast Girls’s Finals Day to be staged on Sunday July 27, dwell on Sky Sports activities Cricket.

The County Floor, Northampton is to host the Vitality Blast Girls’s League 2 Finals Day on Saturday July 26 with the Metro Financial institution One-Day Cup Girls’s League 2 remaining scheduled for Go to Worcestershire New Street on Sunday September 14.

The Incapacity Premier League Closing can be set to once more be performed in September to cap a busy month of home finals.

The primary piece of home silverware on provide for the season would be the inaugural ECB Girls’s T20 County Cup – a brand new knock-out cup competitors consisting of groups from all three tiers of the expanded ladies’s home construction – with Finals Day hosted by the Cooper Associates County Floor, Taunton on Monday Might 26.

The Rachael Heyhoe Flint Trophy remaining shall be staged on Saturday September 21 on the Uptonsteel County Floor in Leicester.

Girls’s cricket groups to align with males’s in 2025 home cups

Girls’s skilled home T20 and 50-over competitions will align with the boys’s tournaments for the primary time subsequent season.

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The Blaze received the Charlotte Edwards Cup this 12 months and can proceed to compete within the rebranded competitions in 2025

The 2025 marketing campaign will see eight skilled ladies’s groups compete within the inaugural Vitality Blast and Metro Financial institution One Day Cup.

These matches will happen alongside the boys’s competitions because the England and Wales Cricket Board appears to be like to assist the ladies’s sport develop.

“An enormous driver for the re-organisation of ladies’s skilled cricket has been to allow us to raised use the leverage and current scale of males’s county cricket to speed up fanbase development for our ladies’s groups and gamers,” stated Beth Barrett-Wild, director of the ladies’s skilled sport.

“Waiting for the 2025 season, we’re due to this fact actually excited to completely align our males’s and ladies’s home white-ball competitions for the primary time.”

Durham, Essex, Hampshire, Lancashire, Nottinghamshire, Somerset, Surrey and Warwickshire had been awarded Tier 1 standing by the ECB in April as a part of a restructure of ladies’s home cricket in 2025.

They’ll all compete underneath their county names, besides the Trent Bridge-based workforce that may proceed to be referred to as The Blaze.

Warwickshire will use the identify Birmingham Bears within the Vitality Blast like their males’s workforce, whereas the Pink Rose county shall be referred to as Lancashire Thunder.

Like with the Vitality Blast males’s finals day, the ladies’s competitors will culminate in a ladies’s finals day, whereas the boys’s and ladies’s Metro Financial institution One Day Cup competitions will every have two semi-finals and a flagship remaining.

Competitors schedules and venues shall be introduced later this 12 months, with the expectation that males’s and ladies’