More than a century of cricket tradition will be left behind on Monday when the England & Wales Cricket Board proposes the introduction of a Twenty20 competition in the summer of 2020 that copies the IPL and Big Bash.

Colin Graves, the chairman of the ECB, will ask the counties to vote in favour of a change to the board’s constitution that will allow the creation of a Twenty20 league, with eight new teams based around regions instead of counties.

Graves describes the process as the biggest ever undertaken by the governing body, which has gone from treating the IPL and Big Bash with suspicion to envy.

“Once the articles of association (in the ECB's constitution) have been changed it is all systems go,” Graves told Telegraph Sport. “I don't think the ECB has ever done as much background work, consultation and discussion on anything before.