Administrator | ICC Europe (2010–2017) European Cricket Council (1996–2010) |
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Format | One Day Cricket List A T10 |
First edition | 2000 |
Current champion | ![]() |
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The European Cricket Championship is a national team cricket tournament for the European countries associated with the International Cricket Council. In the past, the tournament was played as a league system, where the teams were split into divisions. The competition was designed to encourage and develop the best players in countries where cricket was not a major sport and Europe's only Test cricket playing country at the time, England, did not enter a full-strength side. The games were often played as 50-over one-day cricket matches. The tournament was stopped after 2017, but it returned later as a T10 tournament in 2021