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Counties face points deductions for financial losses under strict new ECB rules
Sport
11.05.2026

Counties face points deductions for financial losses under strict new ECB rules

Proposed rules similar to those used by Premier LeagueECB responding after Sussex’s operating loss of £1.33mCricket counties will face automatic points deductions for making repeated losses under strict new financial rules that will be introduced next season.The Guardian has learned that the England and Wales Cricket Board is planning to bring in its own version of football’s profit and sustainability rules underpinned by points deductions in a shadow form next year to give counties time to adjust, before fixed punishments for clubs that fail to break even are introduced in 2028. Continue reading...

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Guardian Sport
England’s men to host more five-Test series but play some one-off games overseas
Sport
08.05.2026

England’s men to host more five-Test series but play some one-off games overseas

Longer UK series planned for South Africa and PakistanSingle Sri Lanka and Bangladesh games OK for ICC’s WTCEngland’s men will face a lopsided Test schedule in the next future tours programme (FTP), with a move to stage more five-match series at home to be offset by an increase in one-off Tests overseas.The England and Wales Cricket Board is abandoning the principle of aiming for reciprocal home and away series in the next World Test Championship (WTC), which will begin with the home Ashes series next summer. The ECB has already held talks with South Africa and Pakistan over touring for five Test matches for the first time in decades, but on the flip side England’s future tours to Sri Lanka and Bangladesh could comprise a single Test complemented by white-ball games that are more commercially viable to the host Boards. Continue reading...

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Guardian Sport