When county Presidents and business leaders gathered in the Lord two weeks to discuss possible changes to the structure for the next year, eight counties requested more time to consider their position.
The ECB then sent a questionnaire to the counties which had to be returned to the Lord by last Friday.
That sport Telegraph understands that the questionnaire is likely to produce a vote of 12-6 to keep the structure of 16-match Championship.
Counties have been notified that retaining the existing structure would probably to the detriment of recent English Champions League T20, including scheduling participation has faced the end of the English season. The season was last power and Somerset lost when a change of date by the Champions League has caused a serious overlap with the calendar of the ECB.
The withdrawal of the Champions League would cost each county £ 50,000, significantly more to the two who qualify for the world event, but the majority of counties see the integrity of the County Championship as being more important.
"I do not think that the Champions League must determine what we do in county cricket,", said Chief Executive Mike Siddall Leicestershire. "We do not know how the Champions League will be standing in the long term and we do not believe that the ECB should be bowing down to a competition that benefits just two counties."
14-Fort ECB Council, which includes four Presidents Peter Wright counties (Nottinghamshire), Colin graves (Yorkshire), Ian Lovett (Middlesex) and Nigel Hilliard (Essex), must now decide whether the opinion of the majority of counties or team England who wishes to reduce the amount of cricket for the County of return.
Professional cricketers Association review in-depth its 18 representatives of County produces ambiguous messages. The representatives, who consulted with their players, vote 14-4 in favour of keeping a 16-match County Championship, but were split 10-8 for a 14-match format if it meant sacrificing playing in the Champions League.
"We believe that the County Championship is that it provides good cricket for England and intense and competitive cricket players." "We mess with it at our peril,", said the BCP Executive Chief Angus Fraser.
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