The Bedge wrote:It's not the actual draw side that would prove the difficulty - its if you had separate comps for each format that would prove the most challenging to keep equitable and cover ground usage etc.
Also what happens with teams that want to participate in one dayers or T20's, but not 2 day cricket? How do you manage that? End up like it is now with a separate LO comp? I'd be supportive of a separate winner for each format, but not a promotion/relegation system for each format.. too bloody hard.
Start the LO's a couple of weeks later, play all the 2 dayers as the first 5 rounds as they are the weeks that are less likely to be heated out or weather to go from one extreme to the other, have a couple of non-playing weeks for the LO's spasmodically throughout the season too.
I just think it would be good if say for instance a team that has exceptional T20 abilities but not so in the longer version skills still be rewarded by being in the highest grade.
There are certain pitfalls as it is when clubs like Smithfield have a 2 day and a LO team, would make programming easier if they had even numbers in each, Grades 4 and 5 have been hard to follow as they have extra 1 dayers etc. not like the traditional programming.