{"id":333713,"date":"2026-05-13T02:08:40","date_gmt":"2026-05-12T20:38:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/?p=333713"},"modified":"2026-05-13T02:08:40","modified_gmt":"2026-05-12T20:38:40","slug":"rahul-dravid-named-owner-of-dublin-guardians-in-european-t20-premier-league","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/2026\/05\/13\/rahul-dravid-named-owner-of-dublin-guardians-in-european-t20-premier-league\/","title":{"rendered":"Rahul Dravid Named Owner Of Dublin Guardians In European T20 Premier League"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<div class=\"td-post-featured-image\">\n<figure><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\"><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Rahul Dravid has been named the owner of Dublin Guardians ahead of the primary season of the European T20 Premier League (ETPL). The six-team competition revealed all its franchises during an official launch event on Monday.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Former India spinner Ravichandran Ashwin will lead the Dublin franchise, which is able to face teams from Belfast, Edinburgh, Glasgow, Rotterdam, and Amsterdam. Sharing his thoughts on joining the league, Dravid emphasized the ETPL\u2019s broader goal of promoting and developing cricket across Europe.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><strong><span class=\"s2\">\u201cWhat attracted me to ETPL was the larger vision behind it, the chance to assist grow cricket in Europe by strengthening grassroots development and creating pathways for emerging talent across Ireland and Europe,\u201d Dravid said in a release.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><strong><span class=\"s2\">\u201cDublin already has a passionate cricketing community and massive potential for growth. Nurturing the subsequent generation has all the time been essential to me, and I consider ETPL can play a meaningful role in that journey,\u201d he added.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">The launch event featured several franchise owners and distinguished personalities from European cricket. Those in attendance included Jonty Rhodes, together with ETPL co-founders Abhishek Bachchan, Saurav Banerjee, Priyanka Kaul, and Dhiraj Malhotra.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Top officials from Cricket Ireland, Cricket Scotland, and the Royal Dutch Cricket Association were also present, including Brian MacNeice, Sarah Keane, Roland Lefebvre, and Trudy Lindblade.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">The ETPL has been introduced through a partnership between Cricket Ireland, Cricket Scotland, and the Royal Dutch Cricket Association, with franchises representing Dublin, Belfast, Edinburgh, Glasgow, Rotterdam, and Amsterdam.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Several global cricket stars are set to feature within the opening season, including Mitchell Marsh, Tim David, Mitchell Santner, Liam Livingstone, Glenn Maxwell, Faf du Plessis, and Heinrich Klaasen. The primary edition of the ETPL is ready to happen from August 26 to September 20.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2 class=\"p3\"><span class=\"s3\">ETPL franchise ownerships<\/span><\/h2>\n<ul class=\"ul1\">\n<li class=\"li1\"><span class=\"s4\">Dublin \u2013 Rahul Dravid<\/span><\/li>\n<li class=\"li1\"><span class=\"s4\">Belfast \u2013 Glenn Maxwell and Rohan Lund<\/span><\/li>\n<li class=\"li1\"><span class=\"s4\">Edinburgh \u2013 Kyle Mills, Nathan McCullum and Rachel Wiseman<\/span><\/li>\n<li class=\"li1\"><span class=\"s4\">Glasgow \u2013\u00a0Vipul Aggarwal and Chris Gayle<\/span><\/li>\n<li class=\"li1\"><span class=\"s4\">Amsterdam \u2013 Steve Waugh, Jamie Dwyer and Tim Thomas<\/span><\/li>\n<li class=\"li1\"><span class=\"s4\">Rotterdam \u2013 Jonty Rhodes, Faf du Plessis, Glashin and Samir Shah, with Madhukar Shree as managing partner.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Get the newest cricket news here, like us on <a href=\"https:\/\/m.facebook.com\/cricfitupdate?wtsid=rdr_0r9TyTtGMzhJUSzAh\">Facebook<\/a>, and follow us on <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/CricFit\">Twitter<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/instagram.com\/cricfit?igshid=MzRlODBiNWFlZA==\">Instagram <\/a> for more such updates.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><br \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rahul Dravid has been named the owner of Dublin Guardians ahead of the primary season of the European T20 Premier League (ETPL). The six-team competition revealed all its franchises during an official launch event on Monday. Former India spinner Ravichandran Ashwin will lead the Dublin franchise, which is able to face teams from Belfast, Edinburgh, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":333714,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20675],"tags":[5625,14457,4860,15648,622,1600,2073,676,5253,5543],"class_list":["post-333713","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cricket","tag-dravid","tag-dublin","tag-european","tag-guardians","tag-league","tag-named","tag-owner","tag-premier","tag-rahul","tag-t20"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/333713","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=333713"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/333713\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":333716,"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/333713\/revisions\/333716"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/333714"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=333713"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=333713"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=333713"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}