Royal London Becomes ECB’s Game-Wide One-Day Cricket Title Sponsor

The England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB) has secured mutual life and pensions company Royal London as headline sponsor of one-day cricket at international, county and recreational levels from 2014. 

Royal London has six million customers, and recently announced a new strategy which will see each of its 11 existing brands migrate to its Royal London masterbrand. 

The ECB’s vision of game-wide title sponsorship for each format has now come to fruition with Royal London sponsoring all one-day cricket, Investec sponsoring Test cricket, NatWest sponsoring all T20 cricket and LV= backing the County Championship.

David Collier, ECB Chief Executive, said: “It is with great pleasure that we welcome Royal London as our newest commercial partner. Our commercial and broadcast deals provide the foundation and long-term stability for our investment in cricket from the playground to Test arena, and this deal is further proof of cricket’s popularity in England and Wales.

“The public's appetite for one-day cricket remains extremely high with international sell-outs every summer and the recent success of the ICC Champions Trophy is also testament to the format’s strength. 

“It is fitting that I take this opportunity to thank our previous county one-day cricket partners Yorkshire Bank and Clydesdale Bank for their support since 2005.” 

Phil Loney, Group CEO of Royal London, said: "Cricket is a very British sport, we are a very British company and we are pleased to be working in partnership with the ECB to help them develop one-day cricket at an international and domestic level. As a mutual, we are particularly pleased to be helping them sustain local communities through the grassroots development of the sport."