The England & Wales Cricket Board will be looking for backing from the counties at Lord’s on Wednesday to launch a new city-based Twenty20 tournament in the most radical shake-up of the domestic game for generations.

Colin Graves, the chairman of the ECB, and Tom Harrison, the chief executive, will meet with the chairmen and chief executives of the 18 counties and MCC to discuss five options for the future of domestic Twenty20.

The options include three based around the current county system and two with new teams.

But it is the proposal for a new Big Bash style tournament, the full details of which were revealed by Telegraph Sport in July, that the ECB hierarchy want to gain consensus on Wednesday.