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New Zealand Cricket has confirmed the schedules for the 2009-10 domestic men’s four-day and one-day competitions, along with the women’s one-day and Twenty20 competitions.
The four-day programme will comprise ten full rounds of matches, with the six provincial sides playing each other in home and away rounds.
No final will be played, with the four-day competition winner being the side finishing top on points at the end of the ten rounds.
The competition begins on 10 November with the first five rounds continuing through to mid-December.
The second half of the four-day competition resumes in late February, after the completion of the one-day and HRV Cup Twenty20 competitions, and continues through to the final round from 29 March – 1 April.
The one-day competition will include eight rounds of competition play, followed by an extended finals series, with preliminary finals, a semi-final and final.
The first round of the one-day competition is scheduled for 8 December.
Five rounds will be played during December, before the competition takes a break during January for the HRV Cup Twenty20 competition.
One-day games resume on 3 February, with preliminary finals on 13 February, semi-final on 17 February and the final on Sunday 21 February. The final will be televised live on SKY.
The HRV Cup schedule, previously announced, runs from 2 January to the final on 31 January, with the winning provincial team becoming New Zealand’s representative in the international Champions League T20 event.
New Zealand Cricket Chief Executive Justin Vaughan said the 2009-10 summer was shaping up to be the busiest and most interesting seasons of domestic cricket for many years.
“As well as the exciting new HRV Cup Twenty20 tournament – which will feature our BLACKCAPS players – we have also committed to an extended four-day programme,” said Vaughan.
“This is an important element in strengthening our international performance – as it will give our leading domestic First Class players increased exposure to the longer form of the game.
“We’ve also retained a strong fifty-over competition culminating in a televised final – so there’s plenty of cricket for fans to enjoy, and we expect the inter-provincial rivalry to be stronger than ever.”
The women’s season schedule includes ten rounds of one-day competition, played in double headers. Five rounds will be played in the Twenty20 competition, with matches played on the days before or after the one-day games.
