The ETPL is being run in collaboration with the cricket boards of Eire, Scotland and the Netherlands.
Bollywood actor and movie producer Abhishek Bachchan is a part-owner of the league at the side of Guidelines Sport Tech, a non-public Indian firm.
As reported by BBC Sport earlier this 12 months, the franchises have been bought for £11.1m ($15m) over a 10-year interval.
Groups can have a complete wage funds within the area of £1.1m ($1.5m) per season, with the inaugural match going down from 26 August to twenty September.
The ETPL is about to conflict with England’s Take a look at collection in opposition to Pakistan, which guidelines out multi-format gamers similar to Harry Brook, Jacob Bethell and Jofra Archer.
However with the 2026 version of The Hundred scheduled to run from late July to mid-August any England gamers with white-ball contracts would, in idea, be obtainable to take part.
England start a T20 collection in opposition to Sri Lanka on 15 September.
Any centrally-contracted England gamers who want to participate would require a No-Objection Certificates (NOC) from the England and Wales Cricket Board.
County-contracted gamers simply on white-ball offers can be free to play with an NOC given there isn’t a conflict with The Hundred or The Blast.
