Euro T20 Slam called-off to 2021 amid COVID-19 pandemic

The inaugural edition of the Euro T20 Slam, a new franchise league, has been postponed to 2021 due to COVID-19 pandemic.

Efforts were made to host the event somewhere in 2020 following "positive talks" between organisers, financial backers and cricket boards (Ireland, Scotland and Netherlands).

However, with continued uncertainty around the impacts of COVID-19 on international travel, quarantine requirements and the status of fan attendance at matches, the board of the tournament made the decision to postpone it till next year.

"We had been discussing in recent weeks alternative arrangements to get the competition started - single venue,



reduced team and player pool, a shorter competition - and, given the speed with which we set up the tri-series between the three boards in Dublin last September, we felt confident to leave the decision as late as possible to give ourselves the best chance to make it work," Warren Deutrom, the chief executive of Ireland Cricket stated in a release on Wednesday.

Euro T20 Slam, a collaborative venture between Cricket Ireland, Cricket Scotland, the Netherlands' KNCB and commercial partners GS Holdings, was initially scheduled to begin at the end of August in Amsterdam last year and was to feature two teams from each of Ireland, Scotland and the Netherlands. However, it was then postponed to 2020.