{"id":417698,"date":"2025-09-12T05:53:11","date_gmt":"2025-09-12T05:53:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/417698\/"},"modified":"2025-09-12T05:53:11","modified_gmt":"2025-09-12T05:53:11","slug":"lancashires-keaton-jennings-hits-out-at-ludicrous-t20-blast-schedule","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/417698\/","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":417699,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4101],"tags":[1406,79,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-417698","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-cricket","8":"tag-cricket","9":"tag-sports","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115189776685679455","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/417698","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=417698"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/417698\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/417699"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=417698"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=417698"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=417698"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}