Hampshire chairman Rod Bransgrove wants the England and Wales Cricket Board to ask supporters what they want from a competition to rival the Indian Premier League.
Hampshire will have to follow the resilient lead of Michael Brown and Nic Pothas if they are to avoid a first Championship defeat of the season at Headingley tomorrow.
England and Wales Cricket Board chief executive David Collier confirmed that the ECB is on course to create its own version of the Indian Premier League by the year 2010.
Sean Morris, the chief executive of the Professional Cricketers' Association, has hinted that it may be necessary to look beyond the current 18 county system to maximise the prospects of Twenty20 cricket in England.