opted out<\/a> of English domestic cricket’s T20 county competition last year.<\/p>\nBBC Sport understands a number of other unnamed English county players with white-ball only contracts have also registered to play in the tournament.<\/p>\n
South African trio Rassie van der Dussen, Reeza Hendricks and Faf Du Plessis have signed up to play along with New Zealander Tim Southee and Sri Lanka’s Wanindu Hasaranga.<\/p>\n
There are six teams, representing the Belgian cities of Antwerp, Bruges, Leuven, Liege, Ghent and Brussels, taking part in the EUT20 Belgium.<\/p>\n
All of the matches will be played on grass pitches being installed at 12 Stars Cricket Club Hofstade near the Belgian capital.<\/p>\n
Each team will have a salary budget of \u00a3183,000 ($250,000) to spend in a draft which is scheduled for 24 March.<\/p>\n
Organisers have not disclosed how much players will earn but it is understood contracts will range from \u00a31,500 to \u00a322,000 ($2,000\u2013$30,000).<\/p>\n
Squads will be restricted to 16 players with a minimum of three cricketers from Belgium’s domestic set-up to be included, although only one must be named in the playing XI.<\/p>\n
The EUT20 is sanctioned by the International Cricket Council (ICC) and is founded by an Indian-backed group called Destino Legends Sports LLC, in partnership with Cricket Belgium.<\/p>\n
Belgium are an Associate member of the ICC and are currently 45th in the global governing body’s T20 rankings.<\/p>\n
England World Cup-winning captain Eoin Morgan is an ambassador for the tournament which has no connection to the European T20 Premier League<\/a> being played in Ireland, Scotland and the Netherlands later in the year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"James Vince and Alex Hales are among the English players to register for a men’s T20 league being…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":411529,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[1721,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-412137","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\/412137","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=412137"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/412137\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/411529"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=412137"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=412137"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=412137"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}