Cricket Australia has confirmed that Women's Big Bash League (WBBL) will be a stand-alone tournament in 2019-20 season and will mark the opening of Australia's summer of cricket.
"In 2019-20 the Women's T20 Big Bash League will move into the October-November period," Cricket Australia CEO James Sutherland told SEN radio this week.
"It will be the primary cricket that is on through that period. The reason why it's not this year is that there is a World T20 event for the women in the Caribbean.", he added.
While this year's WBBL games will still be played as double-headers with men, the women will again be the first broadcast on television with a T20 series against New Zealand scheduled in September.
Next summer, 24 games of the WBBL will be broadcast by both the Seven Network and Fox Sports. This will mark the beginning of the summer cricket season and fill in the unwanted gaps in the television broadcast.
WBBL which first began in 2015 has grown over the years amassing television views and attendance on the ground.
Last year more than 9000 people attended the opening of the WBBL at North Sydney Oval, while 350,000 people watched the opening on TV.
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