First-class refreshed

The West Indies Cricket Board has unveiled a new-look 2010 regional first-class season that will include unprecedented day/night matches.

Shortened from last year’s home-and-away round-robin format because of funding issues, 21 matches will be played over a two-month period, starting on January 8.

For the first time there will be day/night matches with pink balls and one territory will stage an entire round.

First-round matches will be played in Jamaica, then move to the Leeward Islands, Barbados, Guyana, Trinidad and finally Windward Islands.

Jamaica begin their title defence on 8 January against the Windward Islands, Trinidad and Tobago play Combined Campuses and Colleges and Barbados tackle the Leeward Islands.

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The hosting of an entire round in one territory, coupled with the creation of a cricket festival atmosphere to offer more scope for sponsorship and event promotion, is also designed to make travel and hotel arrangements easier.