WORCESTERSHIRE director of cricket Steve Rhodes has mixed views on the proposed new city-based T20 tournament which is set to rival the Indian Premier League.

The new competition earmarked to begin in 2020 will be the first not to involve all the 18 English first-class counties and break with more than a century of tradition.

The T20 competition is yet to have a name and will be run by the England and Wales Cricket Board during the school summer holidays from 2020.

It will feature eight teams and for the first time have no roots in the county game.

First-class counties have told the T20 Blast competition will continue.

They have also been assured £1.3 million a year as their share of the new competition's revenue streams.

Teams are likely to be based around Lord's, The Oval, The Rose Bowl, Trent Bridge, Edgbaston, Old Trafford, Headingley. Bristol, Taunton and Cardiff are likely to share the eighth team.

“We keep getting drip-fed information about it but I am very used to Worcestershire playing in all domestic competitions,” said Rhodes.

“For Worcestershire not to be playing in a domestic competition disappoints me.

“But I recognise that with so much debt in the game this might be one of the only opportunities to bring in some money which might be able to sort out the problems for a few clubs.”

The tournament is expected to run for five weeks over 36 games.

There will be a player auction like with the IPL to kick off the activity in early 2020 with salaried bands of stars and each team using a centrally allocated budget.