LONDON: The official players representative body in English cricket, the Professional Cricketers’ Association (PCA) has confirmed that it will be organizing trial matches during the month of September across a period of six days to test the England and Wales Cricket Board’s (ECB) new proposition, ‘The Hundred’.
Nottingham’s Trent Bridge will host men’s pilot games on 16, 17 and 18 September while Loughborough will play host to women’s fixtures on 14, 15 and 27 September to gain player feedback about the much talked about 100-ball format and the conditions it will be played in. This feedback would then be used by the ECB to take a call on going ahead with it from the year 2020.
The players will be paid for their participation as counties Nottinghamshire and Warwickshire have cancelled a match between them for the cause.
