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Posted: January 10, 2009

 

 

Twenty clubs have indicated their commitment to the new Twenty/20 competition planned for the 2009 season.

The latest two to confirm their interest are Idle and Brighouse bringing the number of Division Two clubs wanting to participate to eight.

Twelve of the interested clubs are from Division One, Baildon, Bradford & Bingley, Cleckheaton, East Bierley, Farsley, Gomersal, Hanging Heaton, Manningham Mills, Pudsey Congs, Pudsey St Lawrence, Saltaire and Yeadon. Champions Woodlands are the only top flight club who have not entered.

Division Two clubs Bankfoot, Brighouse, Hartshead Moor, Idle, Keighley. Lightcliffe, Morley and Spen Victoria complete the line up.

The final format of the competition, its rules and the fixture schedule have been drafted by the sub-committee appointed by the JCT 600 Bradford League Management Committee to oversee the Twenty/20. A sponsor has already been secured for the competition.

The sub-committee's proposal will be presented to the Management Board on Thursday. The draft fixtures and rules will be circulated to the 20 clubs once they have been approved by the Management Board.

Media and Marketing officer Alan Birkinshaw who heads the sub-committee which also includes Chief Executive Bob Shackleton, treasurer David Young, and Umpires Association chairman Glyn Pearson, said: "We are delighted with the response from the clubs

"We have held talks with our competition sponsor and have finalised the structure of the competition.

"We intend splitting the competing clubs into regional groups playing home and away on a Tuesday evening.

"The group winners and the runners up will then proceed to the quarter-finals which will be played under the floodlights at Bradford & Bingley's Wagon Lane ground.

"We hope that clubs will embrace the idea of the new competition and see it as a way of generating revenue in what are increasingly challenging times.

"The competition will offer clubs the chance to innovate and promote the game to a family and younger audience."