
Surrey have been awarded one of English cricket’s eight new “Tier 1” women’s teams, but Middlesex have missed out on a side.
The England & Wales Cricket Board today confirmed the eight first-class counties whose applications to host one of the new teams has been successful, with Durham, Essex, Hampshire, Lancashire, Nottinghamshire, Somerset and Warwickshire the other clubs chosen to head a major shakeup of the women’s domestic game.