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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Sport
Matt Hughes

ECB joins forces with BCCI to thwart new Saudi Arabia-backed T20 competition

Lord's pavilion.
The ECB and BCCI agreed to unite in opposing the new league during discussions at the World Test Championship final at Lord’s. Photograph: Andrew Boyers/Action Images/Reuters

The England and Wales Cricket Board has joined forces with the Board of Control for Cricket in India to try to thwart a new global Twenty20 league backed by Saudi Arabia.

Under plans that emerged in Australia this year, Saudi’s SRJ Sports Investments has pledged to inject £400m to set up the new league, which would have eight teams playing four tournaments in different locations each year in a set-up likened to tennis’s grand slams.

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