Cricket South Africa
Cricket South Africa (CSA) has announced the teams that will make up the new domestic cricket structure for the next two seasons.
It was revealed on Monday that Boland, Central Gauteng Lions, Eastern Province, Free State, KwaZulu-Natal (Coastal), North West, Northerns and Western Province will be part of the eight-team Division 1.
Border, Easterns, KwaZulu-Natal Inland, Limpopo, Mpumalanga, Northern Cape and South Western Districts will join a seven-team Division 2.
Under the new structure, the current six-team franchise cricket make-up will be dissolved and replaced by a 15-team first-class system.
The format will see the teams split 8-7 into the two divisions, which will remain the same for the first two years, before an automatic promotion and relegation system commences.
The calendar for Division 1 will be similar to the current system where the eight teams will play four-day, one-day and the Twenty20 cricket (MSL) all in a single round.
The same eight teams will also compete in a domestic T20 knockout tournament with the seven teams from Division 2, whose season will comprise of a four-day and one-day competition
issued by CSA
