Hampshire chairman Rod Bransgrove is looking forward to discussing ideas for the future of English cricket with the new-look England and Wales Cricket Board.

Bransgrove is one of many county representatives set to meet with ECB officials over the next few months to discuss the Strategy Conversation Summary, which suggests radical changes including a return to a single-division County Championship with three-day matches, including some played as day-night matches.

Hampshire’s chairman is not in favour of all the ideas mooted, but has already spoken of his support for an English Premier League and is glad other changes are being discussed.

He said: “I agree that the programme and structure of English cricket needs to be properly revisited and not just tinkered with.

“We’re at a very early stage but everything is up for grabs, the game needs a radical review, we need to reinvigorate it so we need to be asking what the sport needs.

“We need to play a lot less cricket, that’s for sure and even more so to accommodate a proper English Premier League. Other decisions will flow out of that.”

Bransgrove has already had unofficial talks with new ECB chairman Colin Graves and CEO Tom Harrison, who are set to discuss the future of English cricket with counties and other stakeholders between now and June.

“The County Championship is still an important competition to most professional cricketers and it’s particularly important in developing England players,” continued Bransgrove.

“We need to retain the quality but we need to make sure we’re not just hanging on to 18 games a season simply because that’s what the traditionalists demand.

“Some years ago I suggested three divisions with the third division including relegation and promotion for some of the minor counties.

“That’s not going to be popular with some counties who would be worried about losing their first-class status, but it would reduce fixtures and we want a domestic cricket season that helps the England team to compete.”

Championship cricket has already taken advantage of improvements in floodlight quality and day-night first-class matches have been trialled with the use of a pink ball in Australia’s Sheffield Shield in recent years.

Bransgrove is open to the idea of day-night Championship matches.

“Any opportunity to enhance the audience for Championship cricket, as long as the balance of the game isn’t affected and as long as it’s a symmetrical game between two equallish sides, the sort of thing we should be discussing,” he said.

Like Hampshire director of cricket Giles White, Bransgrove wants an end to 50-over cricket.

“I’ve long felt that 40-over cricket is a more entertaining day’s cricket than the 50-over game,” he said. “I would much rather see that at international level and domestic level.”