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Friends Provident, one of the UK’s leading life and pensions companies, has been announced as the title sponsor for the new domestic Twenty20 competition, the Friends Provident t20.
Somerset opener Marcus Trescothick rounded off an exceptional year by adding the NatWest PCA Player of the Year award to the PCA MVP title.
The ECB has finalised the format for the 2010 season, which will see the number of domestic competitions cut to three: the LV= County Championship, Twenty20 and 40-over league.
The Champions League Twenty20 governing council has extended the deadline for participating teams to name their squads for the tournament.
Justin Langer will make no decision on his future until the end of the season - but is confident he will be available to play in the Champions League for Somerset in October whatever the long term holds.
Captain Michael Yardy is relishing the prospect of leading Sussex into the lucrative Champions League as English cricket’s Twenty20 kings.
Sussex skipper Michael Yardy saluted a “supreme team effort” as his side made up for their Friends Provident Trophy final agony by winning the Twenty20 Cup for the first time at Edgbaston.
Sussex’s spinners ushered in a headlong Somerset collapse to win by 63 runs at Edgbaston and lift the Twenty20 Cup for the first time.
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