GCB have an Evening League rethink

THE GCB'S plans to introduce a Premier League of four teams to rejuvenate evening cricket may have to wait a year.

And even then, the new 'super league' will be five teams, not four.

The change of heart from the GCB top brass follows last week's annual meeting when questions were raised by a couple of clubs, most notably Goldridge Griffins, to give the selected 'big four' privileged status.

After the meeting GCB, via its domestic cricket committee, gave more consideration to the plans and as a result propose deferring the Premier League by one season in order to create the fairest way of achieving the premier five for the shorter form of the game.

Dave Piesing, who heads up the domestic cricket sub-committee, explained the change of direction.

'The primary difference is that instead of basing the top tier of Evening League cricket around the four weekend/focus clubs, we have concluded that it is better to keep the weekend and evening club formats entirely separate, so that the top tier of Evening League continues to be competed for by the Evening League clubs only.

'However, in order to achieve the important objective of optimising the standards of Division One, we consider it crucial to reduce Division One down from its existing seven teams.'

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