The Hundred goes nowhere earlier than the tip of 2028 and has "a long and successful future well beyond that", in line with the ECB's chair.

Several shops reported final month that Richard Gould and Richard Thompson - the ECB's chief govt and chair respectively, who beforehand held the identical roles at Surrey - had been discussing choices to regulate the format of the eight-team, 100-ball competitors, and even to scrap it altogether.

But, in an interview within the June version of the Cricketer journal, Thompson mentioned that there had been "an awful lot of misreporting" on the match's future, emphasising that it's a part of the ECB's profitable broadcast cope with Sky Sports which runs till the tip of 2028.

"We're signed up with the Hundred until 2028 and there's been an awful lot of misreporting around that," Thompson mentioned. "The reality is that the Hundred exists with Sky until 2028 and I'm sure it has a long and successful future well beyond that."

A report by Fanos Hira, the Worcestershire chair, earlier this 12 months advised that the Hundred had made a £9 million loss thus far, figures which the ECB disputes. Thompson mentioned: "It's a historical report looking at the income and cost base of the ECB. And it [the Hundred] will help us across the game.

"It relies upon the way you attribute these prices," he added. "Especially the £1.3m that every county receives a 12 months [which is directly linked to the Hundred]. The recreation has invested a big amount of cash into the Hundred to make sure that it finds a brand new viewers, which it has accomplished. But the fact is it is an funding sooner or later."

The Hundred takes place in a standalone window from August 1-27 in 2023, the first time that it has not clashed with any England men's or women's international cricket. As a result, the final Test of the English summer is due to finish on July 31 - a situation that Thompson said "completely won't" occur once more.

"It does not really feel proper, does it? Finishing the Test season in July means the entire season feels truncated," he said. "My understanding of the choice was they felt there are a big quantity of white-ball internationals taking part in by means of September.

"And the idea behind that was to give us the best possible chance of defending the 50-over World Cup which starts in October. But certainly, you don't want a situation where you're playing just one format or one tournament in the way we are at the moment… the Test summer absolutely will not be squeezed like this in future."