The Hundred will conflict with Main League Cricket (MLC) for the primary time in 2024. The 2 leagues shall be in direct competitors for the world’s main males’s gamers in late July, after narrowly avoiding an overlap final 12 months.

MLC, which launched final 12 months and is backed by Indian and American buyers, introduced final month that its second season will launch on July 4 and conclude “by early August”, with dates and fixtures attributable to be finalised imminently. The ECB introduced the Hundred’s fixture checklist on Tuesday, with The Oval internet hosting the opening males’s and girls’s matches on July 23.

The Hundred will even go up in opposition to an England males’s worldwide in 2024, after a devoted window final 12 months. England’s third Check in opposition to West Indies begins on July 26, which is able to rule these concerned out of at the least the primary week of the Hundred. There won’t be a conflict for England’s girls, who end a T20I sequence in opposition to New Zealand on July 17.

ESPNcricinfo understands that the Hundred is unlikely to conflict with the Caribbean Premier League in 2024. The lads’s and girls’s finals will once more be held at Lord’s on August 18 and whereas CPL dates are but to be finalised, a supply mentioned that it’s unlikely to start out till the ultimate week of August as issues stand.

The ICC voted final 12 months to introduce a worldwide restrict of 4 abroad gamers per crew in franchise leagues, which MLC at the moment exceeds – although the cap solely applies to new leagues. Richard Thompson, the ECB’s chair, spoke to the Sunday Instances this week about leagues that are “mainly worldwide tournaments masquerading as home competitions”, as regards to MLC.