The Twenty20 competition - also known as the Royal Hotel Cup for sponsorship reasons - will feature sides from across the region, with ORC set to replace Molong as the Tigers make their return to the Bathurst Orange Inter District Cricket competition for the upcoming season.

The four pool system from last year is set to be scrapped, with the competition returning to a two pool system.

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Each team will play four pool matches with the top two from each pool progressing to the semi-finals.

Organisers have said that to fit the extra matches in, teams will have to play about half of the pool matches on a Sunday.

The competition is set to commence under lights at Wade Park, Orange, on November 5.

This will be the 10th season that the Bonnor Cup has been played as a Twenty20 competition.

Prior to that, the competition introduced by the Orange District Cricket Association as a day/night competition was played as a 40 over one day competition from its inception in 1990-91 to through to the 2011-12 season, with the 1996-97 season played in the Super8s format.

Last year's Bonnor Cup final was won by Bathurst club Rugby Union following a 29-run win over local side Orange City.

The only all-Bathurst final came in 2018 when Centennials Bulls defeated Bathurst City.

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