Durham selected ahead of Yorkshire to host professional women’s county team

Yorkshire edged out by neighbours in north-eastEssex, Hants, Lancs, Notts, Somerset, Surrey, Warks also get nodDurham’s chief executive, Tim Bostock, said he was “delighted” with the ECB’s decision to award the county the right to host a professional women’s team, after they beat off strong competition from neighbouring Yorkshire.The first-class counties have spent the past two and a half months competing for the right to host one of the eight new professional &ldqu