Eighteen JCT 600 Bradford League clubs have indicated their commitment to the new Twenty/20 competition planned for the 2009 season.

Twelve are from Division One – Baildon, Bradford & Bingley, Cleckheaton, East Bierley, Farsley, Gomersal, Hanging Heaton, Manningham Mills, Pudsey Congs, Pudsey St Lawrence, Saltaire and Yeadon. Champions Woodlands are the only top flight club who have not entered.

Division Two clubs Bankfoot, Hartshead Moor, Keighley. Lightcliffe, Morley and Spen Victoria complete the line-up.

The final format of the competition, its rules and the fixture schedule will now be drawn up by the sub-committee appointed by the JCT 600 Bradford League management committee to oversee the Twenty/20.

They will meet early in the new year and will report to the January meeting of the management board before presenting the details of the competition to the clubs ahead of the meeting of club chairmen at Cleckheaton on January 22.

Media and Marketing officer Alan Birkinshaw, who heads the sub-committee, said: “We are delighted with the response from the clubs.

“Now we will be holding talks with our competition sponsors and finalising the structure of the competition.

“We intend splitting the competing clubs into regional groups playing home and away on a Tuesday evening.

“The group winners will then proceed to the Super Sixes which will be played under the floodlights at Bradford & Bingley’s Wagon Lane ground.

“We hope that clubs will embrace the idea of the new competition and see it as a way of generating revenue in what are increasingly challenging times.

“The competition will offer clubs the chance to innovate and promote the game to a family and younger audience.”