Yorkshire Girls will be part of the tier one revamp of the ladies’s skilled recreation one 12 months sooner than deliberate.
Yorkshire have been informed they must wait till 2027 to affix an expanded ladies’s league.
However the England and Wales Cricket Board stated, topic to assembly a sequence of circumstances, the county will now achieve tier one standing in 2026 to assist present better certainty over the timeline for the prevailing squad as they enter contract negotiations for subsequent summer time from June 1.
Tier one will launch subsequent 12 months with eight golf equipment, with Yorkshire becoming a member of 12 months later and Glamorgan the next 12 months. Between 2025 and 2028 all three tiers might be ‘closed’, with no promotion or relegation.
Because of this Yorkshire’s funding for 2026 will improve to £1.5million per 12 months and their introduction to tier one is contingent on adhering to numerous circumstances, concentrating on governance, technique and finance.
“Yorkshire’s desire to be part of tier one as soon as possible is clear and we believe it’s the best decision for them, the women’s game, and most importantly for the players as they enter a phase of contract negotiation, to provide as much certainty as we can about the introduction timeline for both Yorkshire and Glamorgan,” stated ECB director of ladies’s skilled recreation Beth Barrett-Wild.
