• English T20 club champions into European
Cricket League• Major TV deal in the offing for 16-club competition
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Look out Pavel Florin: the English are coming. The
England and Wales Cricket Board has granted permission for Swardeston Cricket Club to become the first English Twenty20 club champions to play in the European Cricket League.
The ECL is the self-styled
Champions League of cricket, designed to grow the game around Europe in a huge and largely untapped market.