Futures League
Countries	Australia
Administrator	Cricket Australia
Format	3 day
Tournament format	Round-robin tournament
Number of teams	7
Current champion	NSW 2nd XI
Website	Official website
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The Futures League is the Australian national second XI cricket competition. Run by Cricket Australia, it is part of its development program and includes the various state second XI teams, in the 2009/10 season the tournament was renamed the Futures League because a change of rules restricting teams to only have 3 players over the age of 23. It was previously known as the ACB Cup, and changed to the Cricket Australia Cup when the Australian Cricket Board was renamed to Cricket Australia.

The Cricket Australia Cup (men) was the national second XI competition with playing conditions generally mirroring those of the Pura Cup competition. The Cricket Australia Cup (women) is generally staged as a week-long tournament involving most states and territories. However with the Futures League came a change of rules with games restricted to 3 days and restrictions in first innings overs, a four day Futures League Twenty20 tournament was also added.^[1]

[edit] Teams

• New South Wales Second XI
• Western Australia Second XI
• Queensland Academy of Sport
• Victoria Second XI
• South Australia Second XI
• Tasmania Second XI
• Australian Capital Territory

[edit] References

1. ^ http://news.brisbanetimes.com.au/breaking-news-sport/cricket-australia-reaches-out-for-talent-20091001-gdu9.html

[edit] External links

• 2005 fixtures and points table from Cricket Australia
• Cricinfo 2006-07 table

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