Twenty20 night cricket is set to make a welcome return to Somerset Cricket Club next summer where two touring teams could face off against local opposition.

It is understood that invitations have already been sent out to two Caribbean teams, with organisers also hoping to secure sponsorship and lucrative prize earnings for the Bermuda Cricket Board (BCB) sanctioned event.

Plans are to have ten local clubs compete in a round-robin format with the top two finishers earning the distinction of competing against two overseas rivals.

Twenty20 cricket became an instant hit in the West End in 2005 when Somerset first launched the tournament, with Trinidad's Clico Preysal invited to play a series of Twenty20 matches against local oppoistion a year later at the same venue.

But after manufacturing defects were blamed in the felling of a floodlighting pole at the Cricket Lane sports facility, club officials decided against staging the popular event this past summer.

According to club sources, new floodlighting for the venue is expected to arrive next month and installed by January.

Meanwhile, national cricket coach Gus Logie moved swiftly yesterday to distance himself from a proposal to do away with two-day league cricket altogther.

"I don't think we should scrap the Two-Day League but rather find other ways of playing it that will be beneficial to everyone," he insisted.

"Maybe we can look at new ways of making it attractive for people to play. But we have to play it (two-day cricket) to give the youngsters an opportunity to bat long and learn to build an innings and make big runs.

"It's an obvious tool for players to learn how to bat long and bowl longer spells and develop young cricketers.

"Twenty20 cricket was never meant to develop cricketers — it was meant to be a commerical activity based on entertainment.

"It is an added dimension to the established two, three or four-day games which will never be scrapped just because Twenty20 cricket is everybody's tea right now.

"Twenty20 cricket has never been used as a development tool and never meant to do so. It's just pure entertainment."