Women's Hundred Can't Lose Momentum With Investment - Sciver-brunt

England skipper Nat Sciver-Brunt has called for maturation successful The Hundred women's title to continue, and is keen that momentum is not mislaid pinch nan presence of backstage finance successful nan tournament.

From adjacent summer, The Hundred will person backstage ownership crossed nan 8 franchises, including a 49% liking successful Sciver-Brunt's Trent Rockets purchased by Chelsea Football Club proprietor Todd Boehly.

That was 1 of 4 US-based finance groups, pinch nan different 4 franchises bought, either successful full aliases successful part, by owners of Indian Premier League teams.

However, only 1 of them - Mumbai Indians' owners, nan Ambani family, who person agreed to bargain a 49% liking successful Oval Invincibles - has a broadside successful nan Women's Premier League successful India.

"In nan first 5 years we've done a batch of things correct and nan main portion from nan women's broadside is to consciousness for illustration you're successful adjacent measure, successful adjacent opportunity, successful adjacent everything really to nan men's side," said Sciver-Brunt, speaking exclusively to BBC Sport.

"It's nan consciousness of belonging that that gives you arsenic a women's side, it's transformed nan measurement we do things and nan cricket arsenic well. So, hopefully we don't suffer that excessively much."

Crowd numbers for women's fixtures person passed 100,000 crossed nan past 2 seasons of nan tournament, pinch records consistently surgery astatine individual venues.

The attendances for fixtures crossed 17 and 18 August were 47,726 spectators crossed 4 women's matches.

"More finance should thief some nan men's broadside and nan women's side. Obviously we don't cognize nan specifications of what that will look for illustration and what's going to happen, but I'm hoping that it will beryllium really positive," said Sciver-Brunt.

One constituent of nan tourney that could alteration are nan much-loved double-headers.

England and Wales Cricket Board main executive Richard Gould has suggested that independent fixtures would correspond a affirmative change.

"At immoderate point, we would for illustration to effort and find a measurement that we tin person standalone fixtures. Getting a capacity crowd for a women's Hundred fixture astatine immoderate constituent successful nan adjacent mates of years has to beryllium a target for us," Gould told ESPNCricinfo, external successful June.