The Hundred to be performed in four-week window in August 2023

The Hundred will run from August 1-27 in 2023, a shorter window than in its first two seasons as the contest avoids a conflict with England’s house world cricket for the primary time.

England males’s Exams towards India (2021) and South Africa (2022) were up to now performed along the Hundred, overlapping with the second one part of the contest, however the event will as a substitute dominate the month of August in 2023.

A draft fixture time table acquired by way of ESPNcricinfo sees the event release in Nottingham, the place protecting males’s champions Trent Rockets play Southern Courageous on Tuesday, August 1, the day after the scheduled 5th day of the 5th males’s Ashes Take a look at at The Oval.

The event will span 27 days in 2023, in comparison to 32 in its first two seasons. That shift is also held up as a victory for the counties, a few of whom requested the ECB to discover a shorter window for the Hundred as a part of their comments at the reforms to the county time table proposed unsuccessfully by way of the Andrew Strauss-led Prime Efficiency Evaluate.

In observe, the Hundred used to be all the time more likely to remaining a shorter time period in 2023 because of the avoidance of any overlap with world fixtures, opening up broadcasters’ schedules. Because of this, there are because of be 8 double-matchdays – which see two venues host males’s and ladies’s fixtures at the identical day – in 2023, in comparison to 3 in 2022.

The event’s critics argue that the Hundred has now not been definitely worth the vital funding it has required, pointing to underwhelming free-to-air broadcast figures and a disappointing same old of in another country gamers; its proponents counter that robust attendances, industrial pastime and its transformative affect at the ladies’s recreation have vindicated the ECB’s choice to release its personal short-form event.

The appointments of Richard Gould and Richard Thompson, two outspoken critics of the Hundred throughout their time at Surrey, because the ECB’s new leader govt and chairman, may have prompt a metamorphosis of course from central management, however the event is locked into the phrases of the published maintain Sky which runs till the top of the 2028 season.

Salaries were frozen and the in another country wildcard has been scrapped after one season. Groups in each the lads’s and ladies’s pageant will simplest have 3 in another country gamers of their squad somewhat than 4, with all 3 allowed to function in any given enjoying XI.

Because of this, the provision of in another country gamers might be in particular necessary. New Zealand’s world time table is apparent throughout August around the subsequent two years and event officers hope that Trent Boult will input the draft as a possible top-bracket select. Bangladesh, Eire and Sri Lanka’s gamers must even be totally to be had whilst South Africans and Australians would possibly leave out the overall week for a bilateral collection.

Whilst the England males’s time table is apparent throughout the Hundred’s window, organisers settle for that the chance of multi-format gamers being to be had for greater than a handful of fixtures is low. The event begins in an instant after the Ashes and England’s busy limited-overs time table in September leads immediately into their 50-over Global Cup defence in India, that means some gamers may skip the Hundred totally.

The ECB held talks with the Caribbean Premier League previous this month to speak about the competitions’ home windows and it’s understood that each one events are willing to keep away from long term clashes. On the other hand, they’re anticipated to overlap once more in 2023, with house throughout West Indies’ house season restricted by way of the Global Cup in October.

The 2023 county season will observe a an identical trend to 2022: the T20 Blast’s team phases will run from Might 20 till July 2 with the quarter-finals held the next week and Finals Day at Edgbaston on July 15, whilst the Royal London Cup might be staged concurrently the Hundred, with the overall at Trent Bridge on September 16.

Males’s county and ladies’s regional fixtures might be launched in complete on Wednesday, with the Hundred’s fixtures introduced at a later date.