Alex Hales helped Nottingham to victory in last year’s T20 Blast but from 2020 it will no longer be the game’s shortest form Dan Mullan/Getty ImagesA radical new format of cricket in which each side will face 100 balls and bowl one ten-ball over was unveiled by the ECB yesterday. The concept, which is 40 balls shorter than a Twenty20 match, has been designed for the new eight-team, city-based tournament that starts in the summer of 2020. It is hoped that the revamped format will help to attract families to games while also appealing to television broadcasters who will be able to show matches without taking up primetime evening slots. It had originally been thought that the new tournament would be played in the Twenty20 format but the ECB confirmed yesterday that their thinking at present is for an innings of 15 six-ball overs and one additional over of ten…

Source: The Times April 19, 2018 16:07 UTC