{"id":681891,"date":"2026-07-09T07:34:09","date_gmt":"2026-07-09T07:34:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/681891\/"},"modified":"2026-07-09T07:34:09","modified_gmt":"2026-07-09T07:34:09","slug":"ecb-block-plans-to-hold-euro-nations-t20-final-at-lords-despite-mcc-offer-to-ireland-scotland-netherlands","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/681891\/","title":{"rendered":"ECB block plans to hold Euro Nations T20 final at Lord’s despite MCC offer to Ireland, Scotland & Netherlands"},"content":{"rendered":"

The England and Wales Cricket Board has blocked plans to hold the final of a T20 tournament for European nations at Lord’s.<\/p>\n

Discussions to create an annual ‘Euro Nations Cup’ in both the men’s and women’s game started earlier this year.<\/p>\n

The cricket boards of Ireland, Scotland and the Netherlands are developing the concept<\/a> and had hoped to play it as soon as the early part of next summer.<\/p>\n

Sources have told BBC Sport the Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC) are supportive of the idea to help grow European cricket and were willing to make Lord’s available.<\/p>\n

It was hoped that Sir Paul Getty’s ground at Wormsley, who the MCC have a strategic partnership with, could also be used to host fixtures.<\/p>\n

However, it is understood the ECB indicated they would not sign off on a staging agreement required for a T20 international tournament to take place within their jurisdiction.<\/p>\n

A source indicated the ECB feared blowback from counties over international cricket being held in England at the same time as the domestic season.<\/p>\n

Earlier this year organisers were positive about ECB involvement and were optimistic that England could participate in the tournament.<\/p>\n

But in March ECB chief executive Richard Gould cited complications<\/a> over fitting the event in alongside England’s existing international commitments.<\/p>\n

The ECB declined to comment when approached by BBC Sport. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The England and Wales Cricket Board has blocked plans to hold the final of a T20 tournament for…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":681892,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[1721,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-681891","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\/681891","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=681891"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/681891\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/681892"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=681891"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=681891"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=681891"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}