In 2020, women's cricket in England was restructured, creating eight new 'regional hub' teams, with the intention of playing both
50-over and
20-over cricket. Central Sparks were one of the sides created under this structure, representing the
West Midlands and partnered with
Warwickshire,
Worcestershire,
Herefordshire,
Staffordshire and
Shropshire. Central Sparks finished second in the North Group of the competition, winning three of their six games but failing to progress to the final. At the end of the season, five Sparks players were given full-time domestic contracts, the first of their kind in England: Evelyn Jones,
Marie Kelly,
Issy Wong,
Emily Arlott and
Gwenan Davies. The following season, 2021, Sparks competed in both the
Rachael Heyhoe Flint Trophy and the newly-formed Twenty20 competition, the
Charlotte Edwards Cup. In the Charlotte Edwards Cup the side finished third in their group, winning three of their six matches. In the Rachael Heyhoe Flint Trophy, Central Sparks qualified for the knockout stages of the tournament, finishing third in the group of eight with five wins from their seven matches. During the group stages,
Amy Jones hit the highest score of the tournament, scoring 163
* against
Western Storm, whilst Emily Arlott recorded the best individual bowling figures of the tournament against
Southern Vipers, taking 5/29 including a
hat-trick. In the play-off, however, the side lost to
Northern Diamonds by 6 wickets to be eliminated from the competition. In 2022, they reached the final of the
Charlotte Edwards Cup after finishing second in Group A and beating
South East Stars in the semi-final. However, they lost to
Southern Vipers in the final. Sparks batter Amy Jones was the leading run-scorer in the tournament, with 289 runs, and was named the
PCA Player of the Tournament. In July 2022, the side launched the
West Midlands Regional Cup, to aid the development of players playing for county sides in the region. The side finished fifth in the group of eight in the
2022 Rachael Heyhoe Flint Trophy. In 2023, Central Sparks finished seventh out of eight in the
Charlotte Edwards Cup and fifth out of eight in the
Rachael Heyhoe Flint Trophy. Sparks bowler
Georgia Davis was the leading wicket-taker in the Rachael Heyhoe Flint Trophy, with 27 wickets. In 2024, the side reached the semi-finals of the
Charlotte Edwards Cup and finished seventh in the
Rachael Heyhoe Flint Trophy. 2024 was the side's final season, with reforms to the structure of domestic cricket in England meaning that the side was effectively replaced by a professionalised
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