Investec Signs Record ECB Sponsorship
The England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB) has signed Investec, the international specialist bank and Asset Manager, as the new title sponsor of Test Match cricket for the next ten years.
The sponsorship, which will run until 2021, is the longest sponsorship agreement secured in ECB’s history.
It will begin next summer when England take on the West Indies and South Africa. This will be followed by three home Ashes Test series against Australia in 2013, 2015 and 2019, and major tours by India in 2014 and 2018, Pakistan in 2016 and South Africa in 2017.
ECB chief executive David Collier said: ‘This is excellent news for all supporters of Test cricket and a further boost for our five-day game following the England team’s recent achievement in becoming the world’s number one ranked Test side.
‘Investec are an established brand with extensive experience in the sports sponsorship field and we are delighted that they have made such a significant, long-term commitment to promoting Test cricket in this country.
As part of the agreement, Investec will receive a comprehensive range of sponsorship and advertising rights which will include ticketing, hospitality and access to England players.
The London and Johannesburg-based firm becomes only the third company ever to sponsor Test Match cricket in England and succeeds the energy provider npower whose ten-year association with English cricket concluded at the end of the 2011 season.
