Cazoo and LV= end English cricket sponsorship deals for The Hundred and Tests

Cazoo sponsored the archetypal 2 years of The Hundred

Car retailer Cazoo and security steadfast LV= person some opted against renewing sponsorship deals with English cricket.

LV='s 3 years sponsoring men's and women's Test cricket and the County Championship volition extremity aft the coming summer, the institution has confirmed.

Royal London, backers of home and planetary 50-over cricket, ended its sponsorship woody successful December.

It leaves the England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB) looking for 3 main sponsors astatine what is acceptable to beryllium a challenging clip for the sport.

Disciplinary hearings relating to allegations of racism astatine Yorkshire are owed successful March, portion the Independent Commission for Equity successful Cricket is preparing to people its findings aft 2 years of gathering evidence.

An ECB spokesperson said: "We convey Cazoo for their large enactment implicit the archetypal 2 years of The Hundred. We are truly arrogant of the assortment of partners who person helped found The Hundred and propulsion cricket's doors open.

"We look guardant to announcing much caller partnerships arsenic we get person to the 3rd twelvemonth of the competition.

"We're precise grateful to LV Insurance for their enactment for cricket successful England and Wales. As good arsenic partnering with England men's and women's Test cricket and the County Championship, they person done a immense magnitude for grassroots cricket including done the £1m Funds4Runs initiative.

"With an breathtaking summertime of cricket up - including men's and women's Ashes - we look guardant to moving unneurotic during the last twelvemonth of this partnership."

Heather Smith, managing manager astatine LV General Insurance, said: "We are precise overmuch looking guardant to a hugely palmy summertime of Ashes cricket but erstwhile the 2023 cricket play comes to an extremity truthful volition our sponsorship.

"We ever said we'd spouse with the athletics done to 2023 and we consciousness the clip is close to people walk the accidental of this fantastic sponsorship connected to idiosyncratic else."

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