Fixtures for 2022 Hundred launched, as Trent Bridge hosts event opener

Trent Bridge, the house of guys’s reigning champions Trent Rockets, will host the hole fixtures of this 12 months’s Hundred on August 1, with the general as soon as once more scheduled for Lord’s, on August 27.

To permit this shortened window, all the rounds will probably be performed as males’s and girls’s double-headers – a transformation from each 2021, when the event opened with a standalone girls’s fixture on the Kia Oval, and 2022, when the ladies’s tournament used to be not on time through the concurrent Commonwealth Video games – whilst there will probably be 8 “double-double-header” days, on which 4 suits will probably be performed.

The Hundred’s partnership with BBC Track Introducing will probably be endured for the 2023 tournament, which means a various vary of artists and DJs will as soon as once more supply in-game leisure, whilst price tag costs are set at £5 for juniors elderly 6-15, loose for youngsters 5 and underneath, and adults ranging from £10.

For the primary time within the pageant’s historical past, each the boys’s and girls’s occasions will probably be preceded through a draft, which is because of be hung on Thursday, March 2. Closing date day – the day on which retained avid gamers are showed throughout each competitions – is ready to be Thursday, February 16.

“Lifting the trophy with my Oval Invincibles team-mates final 12 months used to be a occupation spotlight that I will by no means put out of your mind,” Lauren Winfield-Hill, the England batter, mentioned. “The Hundred is any such exciting pageant to be part of. The reinforce we had at each and every sport used to be simply extraordinary and I will be able to’t wait to get again into motion to protect the identify this 12 months.

“The primary ever girls’s draft is undoubtedly going to deliver a thrilling new component to the sport and it’ll be attention-grabbing to peer how the groups form up for some other fierce pageant.”

Dawid Malan, final 12 months’s main run-maker within the males’s pageant, and a reigning champion with Trent Rockets, added: “I’ve numerous nice reminiscences from the Hundred 2022. The ambience in each and every flooring used to be in reality stress-free and successful the identify at Lord’s used to be very particular. This summer season is shaping as much as be huge for cricket in England and Wales and I am in reality having a look ahead to the 3rd 12 months of the Hundred, taking part in with one of the vital perfect avid gamers on the earth in entrance of huge crowds.”

Sanjay Patel, the event’s managing director, mentioned: “I’m extremely pleased with the affect the Hundred has already had on cricket in England and Wales after simply two years, offering a brand new structure that has noticed extra households and a various new technology of fanatics entering the sport.

“As we input 12 months 3, we are having a look ahead to development on that momentum and striking on some other unforgettable summer season of world-class cricket motion and leisure that can proceed to enchantment to new and present audiences alike.”

Beth Barrett-Wild, head of the ladies’s event, and of feminine engagement on the ECB, added: “We’re in the midst of a in reality particular time period for pro girls’s game, with exponential ranges of enlargement going down throughout each and every measure of engagement, from broadcast viewing figures to check day attendances.

“Since launching in 2021, the Hundred has had a transformational affect on girls’s cricket, propelling the ladies’s sport into the mainstream, and making family names of our good feminine avid gamers.”