{"id":520810,"date":"2026-03-05T18:21:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-05T18:21:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/520810\/"},"modified":"2026-03-05T18:21:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-05T18:21:08","slug":"rahul-dravid-ravichandran-ashwin-set-to-acquire-scottish-franchise-in-european-t20-premier-league","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/520810\/","title":{"rendered":"Rahul Dravid &#038; Ravichandran Ashwin set to acquire Scottish franchise in European T20 Premier League"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The ETPL is being run in collaboration with the cricket boards of Ireland, Scotland and the Netherlands.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Bollywood actor and film producer Abhishek Bachchan is a part-owner of the league in conjunction with Rules Sport Tech, a private Indian company.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">As reported by BBC Sport earlier this year, the franchises have been sold for \u00a311.1m ($15m) over a 10-year period.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Teams will have a total salary budget in the region of \u00a31.1m ($1.5m) per season, with the inaugural tournament taking place from 26 August to 20 September.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The ETPL is set to clash with England&#8217;s Test series against Pakistan, which rules out multi-format players such as Harry Brook, Jacob Bethell and Jofra Archer.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">But with the 2026 edition of The Hundred scheduled to run from late July to mid-August any England players with white-ball contracts would, in theory, be available to participate.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">England begin a T20 series against Sri Lanka on 15 September.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Any centrally-contracted England players who wish to take part would require a No-Objection Certificate (NOC) from the England and Wales Cricket Board.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">County-contracted players just on white-ball deals would be free to play with an NOC given there is no clash with The Hundred or The Blast.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The ETPL is being run in collaboration with the cricket boards of Ireland, Scotland and the Netherlands. Bollywood&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":520811,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[564],"tags":[64,63,740,85],"class_list":["post-520810","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cricket","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-cricket","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/520810","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=520810"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/520810\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/520811"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=520810"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=520810"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=520810"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}