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Countries
  
Australia

Tournament format
  
Round-robin tournament

Founded
  
2006

Format
  
4 day

Website
  
Official website

Administrator
  
Cricket Australia

Number of teams
  
7 (Futures League) 8 (FLT20)

Current champion
  
New South Wales cricket team

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The Futures League or Toyota Futures League is the Australian national second XI cricket competition.

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Run by Cricket Australia, it is part of its development program and includes the various state and territory second XI teams, for the 2009–10 season onwards the tournament was renamed the Futures League because a change of rules restricting teams to only have three players over the age of 23; however, it is now six players. 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.

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History

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 of 96 first innings overs and 144 overs in total per side, a four-day Futures League Twenty20 tournament was also added which is played in Melbourne during December.

From the 2011–12 season the Futures League has returned to four day matches with no over restrictions and six players over the age of 23 allowed to play in the team.

Teams

  • New South Wales U-23s
  • Western Australia U-23s
  • Queensland Academy of Sport
  • Victoria U-23s
  • South Australia U-23s
  • Tasmania U-23s
  • Australian Capital Territory
  • Cricket Australia Centre of Excellence (Futures League Twenty20 only)
  • References

    Futures League Wikipedia