How many overs in the new format? Six doesn't go into 100?

Indeed, the traditional six-ball over doesn't fit nicely into 100 balls-per-innings. That's where a special 10-ball over comes into play.Each innings per match would consist of 15 overs (90 balls), with a 10-ball over tacked on. Whether that would be at the end of the dig or called for by the captain at some point in the innings is not clear yet.It means matches in The Hundred would be 40 balls shorter than Twenty20 clashes that go the full distance, minus the usual wides, no-balls and free hits.The supposedly sacrosanct six-ball over has not always been so, mind you. Four-ball overs and eight-ball overs have been used at different times since cricket's heady days of 1876. Six balls has been the standard since 1979.Much of the innovation in England ? with new teams based at Lord's, the Oval, Edgbaston, Headingly, Trent Bridge, Old Trafford, Cardiff and Southampton ? mirrors what has already happened in Australia, with Big Bash franchises co-existing alongside the states' Sheffield Shield and one-day cup teams.The ECB's move will also see eight women's teams created in conjunction with the men's teams in the new five-week tournament, something already enacted Down Under with the creation of the Women's Big Bash League.England's domestic Twenty20 competition, the T20 Blast, would still continue alongside The Hundred.Twenty20 cricket emerged from the ECB's brains trust back in 2003, and its innovation spawned Twenty20 World Cups, the big-monied IPL and Australia's increasingly successful Big Bash.But will this latest innovation be headed to our shores any time soon? Don't bet on it.A Cricket Australia spokesperson said the national governing body was not "looking at any format changes to any of our sanctioned matches".But if you do want to get your fix from even quicker cricketing formats, there's always the annual Hong Kong Sixes ? a tournament where each team faces five overs each ? while there have been lesser 10-over-a-side tournaments staged before.