{"id":131494,"date":"2025-09-12T05:09:05","date_gmt":"2025-09-12T05:09:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/131494\/"},"modified":"2025-09-12T05:09:05","modified_gmt":"2025-09-12T05:09:05","slug":"lancashires-keaton-jennings-hits-out-at-ludicrous-t20-blast-schedule","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/131494\/","title":{"rendered":"Lancashire’s Keaton Jennings hits out at ‘ludicrous’ T20 Blast schedule"},"content":{"rendered":"

Lancashire played their first T20 Blast match of the season on 29 May and ended the 14-game group campaign on 18 July.<\/p>\n

There was then a gap of 50 days to their Emirates Old Trafford clash with Kent, with seven days between that tie and Finals Day.<\/p>\n

“You can’t have eight weeks between the last group game and the final,” said Jennings. <\/p>\n

“There is no other competition in the world that does that. Hopefully it changes next year.”<\/p>\n

Finals Day will be staged 57 days after the end of the group games while, in comparison, the whole of the Indian Premier League was played over a continuous 73 days, while Australia’s Big Bash was completed in 43 days and the SA20 in South Africa over just 30 days.<\/p>\n

Dates have not been confirmed for 2026, but the ECB announced<\/a> last month the T20 Blast would be completed in one block next summer before The Hundred begins. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Lancashire played their first T20 Blast match of the season on 29 May and ended the 14-game group…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":131495,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[1721,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-131494","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cricket","tag-cricket","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131494","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=131494"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131494\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/131495"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=131494"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=131494"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=131494"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}