Working party to decide 2011 schedule

The county fixture list will not finalised until November, when the management board meet to discuss the working party's findings

The ECB’s management board today agreed to set up a small working party to finalise the domestic schedule for 2011 following a meeting at Lord’s.

The decision follows a consultative meeting at Lord’s last week with 56 different representatives of the first-class game to discuss scheduling issues.

The working party will be chaired by ECB chief executive David Collier and will include representatives from the PCA and the wider county game.

It will report back to the next scheduled meeting of the management board on November 17 when a decision will be made on the domestic schedule for 2011.