As Cricket Australia firm up plans for a women’s Big Bash League, recently-retired national captain Jodie Fields hopes they decide less is more.

CA’s push towards a WBBL gathered further momentum at last week’s board meeting, when a project team was established to prepare the competition for launch in 2015-16.

BBL boss Mike McKenna and fellow CA administrators Pat Howard and Belinda Clark will now chew through the major issues.

These include the structure and format of the tournament, the number of teams and allocation of players.

“There is still a lot of work to do before we can make it a reality,” cautioned CA chief executive James Sutherland.

“But we have high hopes for what could be an important step in further professionalising women’s cricket in Australia.”

The domestic women’s Twenty20 competition currently features seven state teams.

Fields suggested replacing them with four BBL-aligned clubs would raise the standard and make it more of a spectacle.

“It’d be great to see four strong teams, featuring the best players from Australia and the rest of the world,” Fields said.

“It’d probably make our comp the best in the world.

“It’s a really exciting concept.”

The Southern Stars’ profile has been steadily rising in recent years with unprecedented media coverage of their World T20 and one-day World Cup successes.

The Stars’ current T20 series against West Indies is being playing alongside the men’s three-game bash-and-crash bout with South Africa.

Adelaide Oval, the MCG and ANZ Stadium are all hosting double headers, a marketing tactic Fields would like to see in the WBBL.

“It’d be great for the four teams to play before the men’s BBL games. Hopefully getting them televised as well,” she said.

Recently-appointed Australian Cricketers Association chief Alistair Nicholson agreed.

“The double headers that have been played previously in the Big Bash have been well received and take the women’s game to a much wider audience,” Nicholson said, adding that the ACA was looking “forward to seeing more detail about what’s being proposed”.

When asked what obstacles have the potential to stop it launching, Fields noted the “financial situation will be interesting”.

“The women will need time off work and they would need to be financially supported to do that properly,” she said.

“You’d also need a lot of support from employers.”

Female participation in the 2013-14 cricket season was up 39 per cent on the previous year, with CA understandably keen to continue the growth.