Angler wrote:Hearing on the grapevine that the A3’s might go to all one day cricket next season. At the moment the A4’s and A5’s are gaining teams each season and already have 10 or 11 teams in each grade. Also it’s sounding as though Hamley Bridge will possibly drop down to the A4’s next season
Get rid of Hamley, Long Plains and Truro, they offer nothing, if you cant field a two day team and are never likely to, whats the point. There is clubs close enough to them that they can go and play for.
4s and 5s has been the same amount of teams for quite a few years now. The loss of two day teams was brought about by the association changing the two day grades to 100% two day cricket for 2 years instead of a mix of both. The loss of two day teams has not translated to extra teams in a4 and a5.
Instead of changing A3 to one day cricket which just means we have 3 divisions of one day cricket they should take the two day grades back to 6 teams per grade. Every single year there is two easybeats in A1. The bottom of A2 is also a big gap to the top. It would make for a much more even and cut throat competition across all the grades. 6 in A1, 6 in A2 and the leftovers in A3, currently 11, they should be forcing Long Plains back up to A3 and making it 12, creating a 4th grade of two day cricket.