European T20 League

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A new European T20 cricket league has been sanctioned by Cricket Ireland to be held from 30 August to 22 September 2019, following an agreement between the boards of Cricket Ireland, Cricket Netherlands and Cricket Scotland.

Similar in style to other well-known T20 leagues around the world, the new tournament will feature city-based franchise teams (six teams, two from each country). The tournament will involve 33 matches across all three countries, featuring a Group Stage followed by semi-finals and a final.

Tournament rules will ensure that each franchise must have a minimum of nine domestic players, and up to a maximum of seven overseas players within their squads. Furthermore, the rules mandate that of the 11 players taking the field in each match, six players must be domestic players.

The tournament, developed following consultation with ICC, will be delivered under an initial 10-year agreement with event and funding partners GS Holding Inc. and Woods Entertainment, and will be broadcast in cricket markets globally. A Governing Committee comprising representatives from GS Holding Inc./Woods and the participating cricket boards will be established to oversee the tournament.

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To feature a Dublin and a Belfast team in Aug & Sept.

Should be good fun.

riffmongous

Interesting stuff! I'm curious how they will balance between foreign players to try attract some crowds and attention and developing domestic players, while keeping the whole thing under control financially

Slim Charles

Will deffo travel up for a game in malahide. Think this is a great idea well done to organisers.

Richard Hillman

I think this is needed. I don't think the first class system in Ireland is suitable for being able to progress the standard of player to international level. A series like this would be a couple of notches above what they play. Scotland and Netherlands will be as like their international teams. I would definitely venture out to malahide for a game or several.

Richard Hillman

A lot of well known names to be involved
Brendan McCullum
Shane Watson
Chris Lynn
Rashid Kahn
Luke Ronchi
Barbar Azam

https://www.irishtimes.com/sport/other-sports/dublin-chiefs-and-belfast-titans-ready-to-take-on-euro-t20-slam-1.3876352?mode=amp#.XMhzp1oKmQc.twitter

2 teams per country.
Dublin
Belfast
Glasgow
Edinburgh
Rotterdam
Amsterdam

Will be played in geographical blocks in Netherlands, Edinburgh and Dublin

nice bit of green

Yes very much looking forward to Malahide. Family commitments will decide what weekend I can attend.

c.p.w.g.w

I think I'll need to find some cricket friends to go with me.

nice bit of green

Grab me mate. I think my brother will come too. We’re rather clueless but we like what we see.

Slim Charles

What is the story with tickets etc ? Also, does anyone know what way Malahide is served from Dublin city centre? Will be getting train up I should think.

Inquitus

I think this is a great idea, hope it takes off well. Will defo bring the kids along to Malahide.

nice bit of green

Slim Charles wrote: »

What is the story with tickets etc ? Also, does anyone know what way Malahide is served from Dublin city centre? Will be getting train up I should think.

Frequent enough buses and darts to city centre. 2-3 per hour I guess.
Not sure about tickets yet but there will be no shortage of supply even close to the dates.

Slim Charles

nice bit of green wrote: »

Frequent enough buses and darts to city centre. 2-3 per hour I guess.
Not sure about tickets yet but there will be no shortage of supply even close to the dates.

Thank You, forgot about the DART. Hate buses.

Richard Hillman

https://et20s.com/2019/06/25/yuvraj-among-couple-of-indian-cricketers-likely-for-euro-t20-slam/

Looks like Yuvraj is in.

I'm seeing lots of other names like ABD, Dre Russ, Dale Steyn and Imran Tahir being mentioned there but can't see them being able to afford those types of names. Maybe Tahir, he's in his 40s and was a late bloomer in cricket. He'll probably take a reasonable contract.

Richard Hillman

https://twitter.com/et20s/status/1145718062471008257?s=19

Dale Steyn is in

Richard Hillman

https://www.cricketeurope.com/DATABASE/ARTICLES2019/articles/000009/000970-p.shtml

The Draft will take place in London on the 19th of July. Some serious sums of money involved. I'm not sure how this is being paid for or what attendances are being touted.

These are the names in the draft

The icon players are Martin Guptill, Brendon McCullum, Eoin Morgan, Shahid Afridi, Shane Watson and Rashid Khan while the marquee players are Dale Steyn, JP Duminy, Imran Tahir, Chris Lynn, Babar Azam and Luke Ronchi.

Some of the top players who have registered for the draft are Ben Cutting, Sarfaraz Ahmed, Mustafizur Rahman, Kusal Perera, Angelo Mathews, Mohammad Amir, Fakhar Zaman, Shaheen Afridi, Colin Ingram and Tymal Mills. The list of all the registered players will be released soon.

VillaMad

Draft is taking place at the moment.

Eoin Morgan will be coming home and playing for the Dublin Chiefs.

Richard Hillman

So far the icon and marquee players are
Dublin: Morgan, Babar Azam
Belfast: Shahid Afridi, JP Duminy
Edinburgh: Guptill, Chris Lynn
Glasgow: Brendan McCullum, Dale Steyn
Amsterdam: Imran Tahir, Shane Watson
Rotterdam: Rashin Khan, Luke Ronchi

VillaMad

Round 1:
Amsterdam: Ben Cutting
Glasgow: Ravi Bopara
Dublin: Mohammed Amir
Rotterdam: Fakhar Zaman
Belfast: Mohammed Nawaz
Edinburgh: Corey Anderson

VillaMad

Round 2:
Edinburgh: Matt Henry
Belfast: Luke Wright
Rotterdam: Samit Patel
Dublin: Harry Gurney
Glasgow: Usman Shinwari
Amsterdam: Ahmad Shahzad

VillaMad

Round 3:
Rotterdam: Shaheen Afridi
Belfast: Colin Ingram
Edinburgh: Tymal Mills
Amsterdam: Hassan Ali
Glasgow: Moises Henriques
Dublin: Daniel Christian

VillaMad

Round 4:
Dublin: Robbie Frylinck
Glasgow: Qais Ahmed
Amsterdam: Sikandar Raza
Edinburgh: Tabraiz Shamsi
Rotterdam: Hardus Viljoen
Belfast: Mitchell McClenaghan

VillaMad

Round 5:
Glasgow: Heinrich Klaasen
Dublin: No pick made
Rotterdam: Peter Trego
Belfast: Aaron Summers
Edinburgh: Anton Devcich
Amsterdam: Alzari Joseph
Dublin: Corbin Bosch

Richard Hillman

A bit messy from Dublin in the end. Need another batsman. Decent bowling options.

VillaMad

Richard Hillman wrote: »

A bit messy from Dublin in the end. Need another batsman. Decent bowling options.

They selected Corbin Bosch in the end. South African all-rounder.

VillaMad

Sarfaraz Ahmed, Mustafizur Rahman, Kusal Perera and Angelo Mathews all registered initially for the draft but it looks like they all must have opted out in the end.

VillaMad

Supplementary round 1:
Belfast: Muhammad Ilyas
Edinburgh: Waqar Salamkheil
Amsterdam: Varun Chopra
Glasgow: JJ Smuts
Dublin: no pick made
Rotterdam: Anwar Ali

VillaMad

Supplementary round 2:
Amsterdam: Saad Bin Zafar
Rotterdam: no pick made
Edinburgh: Dwaine Pretorious
Dublin: no pick made
Glasgow: no pick made
Belfast: no pick made

VillaMad

So the final international player draft:
Dublin Chiefs: Eoin Morgan, Babar Azam, Mohammed Amir, Harry Gurney, Daniel Christian, Robbie Frylinck, Corbin Bosch

Belfast Titans: Shahid Afridi, JP Duminy, Mohammed Nawaz, Luke Wright, Colin Ingram, Mitchell McClenaghan, Aaron Summers, Muhammed Ilyas

Edinburgh Rocks: Martin Guptill, Chris Lynn, Corey Anderson, Matt Henry, Tymal Mills, Tabraiz Shamsi, Anton Devcich, Waqar Salamkheil, Dwaine Pretorious

Glasgow Giants: Brendan McCullum, Dale Steyn, Ravi Bopara, Usman Shinwari, Moises Henriques, Qais Ahmed, Heinrich Klaasen, JJ Smuts

Amsterdam Knights: Imran Tahir, Shane Watson, Ben Cutting, Ahmad Shahzad, Hasan Ali, Sikandar Raza, Alzari Joseph, Varun Chopra, Saad Bin Zafar

Rotterdam Rhinos: Rashid Khan, Luke Ronchi, Fakhar Zaman, Samit Patel, Shaheen Afridi, Hardus Viljoen, Peter Trego, Anwar Ali

VillaMad

Local Player draft now, where the two teams from the same country compete for their local national players.
First up, the Netherlands:
Amsterdam Knights: Tobias Visee, Roloef van der Merwe, Brandon Glover, Ben Cooper, Paul van Meekeren, Philippe Boissevain, Wesley Barresi, Sikander Zulfiqar and Tonny Staal

Rotterdam Rhinos: Max O'Dowd, Pieter Seelaar, Scott Edwards, Fred Klaassen, Shane Snater, Stephan Myburgh, Saqib Zulfiqar, Vivian Kingma and Bas de Leede

VillaMad

Next Scotland:
Edinburgh Rocks: Kyle Coetzer, Calum MacLeod, Mark Watt, Michael Leask, Craig Wallace, Gavin Main, Adrian Neill, Dylan Budge and Oliver Hairs

Glasgow Giants: Richie Berrington, George Munsey, Alasdair Evans, Safyaan Sharif, Matthew Cross, Tom Sole, Scott Cameron, Hamza Tahir and Michael Jones

VillaMad

Finally Ireland:
Dublin Chiefs: Andrew Balbirnie, Kevin O'Brien, George Dockrell, Lorcan Tucker, Josh Little, Simi Singh, Tyrone Kane, Gary Delany and Harry Tector

Belfast Titans: Paul Stirling, Gary Wilson, Mark Adair, Boyd Rankin, Shane Getkate, Craig Young, Andrew McBrine, Stuart Thompson and Greg Thompson

wicorthered

Was there an actual draft for locals or were players just assigned to a team?

VillaMad

wicorthered wrote: »

Was there an actual draft for locals or were players just assigned to a team?

There was indeed, but the Irish one looked a bit fixed as they were assigning the Dubs to the Dublin side and the players from the North to the Belfast team.

Royale with Cheese

Just looking at the schedule, it's a 6 team league and the top 4 get through to the semi finals? Cmon, that's a bit of a joke. Should just be the top two play the final.

Richard Hillman

Yeah, looks like there was a bit of gentlemans agreement alright. Would have been a bit silly having Kevin O'brien playing for Belfast and Boyd Rankin playing for Dublin.

On the question of Eoin Morgan, does he count as an overseas player? :pac:

Richard Hillman

https://twitter.com/et20s/status/1152276593236049920?s=09

Eoin Morgan is overseas.

Difficult to see who opens with Babar Azam. Maybe Balbirnie may go and open with Morgan at 3. After that it's a string of All Rounders.

There is a hint of RCB about them. Stacked batting at the top and then a raft of 10-20 ball hitters

Beasty

Full schedule here

Final group matches, semi finals and final to be in Dublin Sat 21st and Sunday 22nd

Final Group Match Dublin v Belfast Thursday 19th September

The rest of the site is pretty sparse on info at this stage.

Hope they've some floodlights lined up!

Richard Hillman

Seems like Faf Du Plessis will be joining Belfast

Richard Hillman

https://twitter.com/PeterDellaPenna/status/1161719964451184640?s=19

Can't say I'm shocked. I had no idea where this money was coming from. Apparently it was the same people involved in the Canada League and players have not been getting paid.

nice bit of green

Aye, their website now confirms it as postponed til next year. Jokers.

Royale with Cheese

Balls. Was looking forward to this.

Hodors Appletart

yes so was i this is a pity

VillaMad

Awful for the players who would have made a nice bit of extra money from this.

Would be amazed if it even goes ahead next year.

BOHtox

Wonder could a first class system be established with Ireland, Scotland and Netherlands with those 6 teams, similar to the Rugby.

Even an ODI league and T20 yearly tournament would mean you get that good exposure of playing better players than they currently do and would be great for European cricket in general. You might get some TV money from India and you might get a few crowds at the matches here and maybe a decent sponsor.

Might entice a few players from going to England.

nice bit of green

Read online that this postponement leaves a gap for all 3 countries in practice for the T20 WC qualifiers. So, there might be a little tri nation series or a few friendless of some sort in September?

gavinoontheweb

nice bit of green wrote: »

Read online that this postponement leaves a gap for all 3 countries in practice for the T20 WC qualifiers. So, there might be a little tri nation series or a few friendless of some sort in September?

Word on twitter is the Dutch are coming over here, hopefully the weather plays ball. Irish Domestic Cricket has struggled to get many results this summer.

nice bit of green

Lovely. Am gagging for a game, Malahide please.