THE Wangaratta and District Cricket Association board has made the decision to scrap the two–day games scheduled for the end of the year in the A and A reserve grades.

The longer format was set to take place from round 16 onwards, meaning the final two rounds of the home and away season, plus finals will now revert to one day matches instead.

WDCA president Greg Hoysted said the current COVID–19 climate was the major factor for the switch.

"The executive met on Monday night and decided that it's best to play a season of one day cricket," Hoysted said.

"We were nervous about starting a two day game and then a club being impacted by COVID and being down players for the second week of the match.

"A team might have 11 or 12 the first week and then be missing a few the next week which would make it all pretty messy when trying to find replacements.

"We want two day cricket to be played but this year it's just too risky."

The WDCA will update the fixture in the coming days.

Despite the change, Hoysted insists the board will be looking to play two day games next season.

"In an ideal world we'd like to play everyone twice, once in one day cricket and once in two–day cricket," he said.

"Hopefully next year we'll be able to do that."

However, in the under 16s and under 14s competition, two day matches will still be played.

"We think it's easier to shuffle junior teams around than seniors," Hoysted said.

"We need to work through some little tweaks with the juniors but they won't change much."