The Hundred season that starts at the Oval on Tuesday will be the last in its current form, with expansion from eight teams possible and changes of ownership inevitable as the organisers launch into “speed dating” with potential investors.
Negotiations between the England and Wales Cricket Board, would-be investors and existing host counties and clubs are set to accelerate over the second half of the year in a process described by the ECB’s Vikram Banerjee as “kind of a bit like very strange speed dating” that will ensure “that everyone’s got a partner in a weird kind of school disco sort of moment”.
