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75-458: The Second XI (currently known as the Toyota Second XI under naming rights ) is a men's cricket league competed for primarily by Australian state and territory first-class cricket reserve teams . The competition is administered by Cricket Australia and is considered part of the national development pathway. Ordinarily a low-fanfare competition that exists purely as a bridge between

150-507: A presenting sponsor attaches the name of the corporation or brand at the end (or, sometimes, beginning) of a generic, usually traditional, name (e.g. Mall of America Field at Hubert H. Humphrey Metrodome ); or, a title sponsor replaces the original name of the property with a corporate-sponsored one (as is the case with most sponsored sports venues), with no reference to the previous name. Stadium naming may have shifted in recent years to promoting corporate trade names, but in earlier decades

225-633: A World XI and Asia XI side . On 12 March, the Pakistan Cricket Board announced that all remaining matches of the Pakistan Super League 's ongoing fifth season being played in Karachi (where the majority of cases in Pakistan had been concentrated) would be closed to spectators. On 16 March 2020, the remaining play-offs in the 2020 Pakistan Super League were postponed due to a huge spike in

300-429: A combination of three-day and one-day matches. As the teams were divided into two groups, no overall champion was awarded. As the tournament expanded the following season, teams now played four-day matches exclusively, although the numbers of matches per season per team did vary. Four-day cricket continued up until the competition overhaul ahead of the 2009–10 season, which introduced age restrictions and capped overs to

375-409: A corporate-purchased name must always be referred to in all event-related media (including live broadcasts) by a generic name (e.g., General Motors Place was referred to as "Canada Hockey Place" during the 2010 Winter Olympics ). On the other hand, Toyota Stadium was referred to as "City of Toyota Stadium" during the 2019 Rugby World Cup to avoid confusion as a form of ambush marketing; the stadium

450-684: A minimum of four matches per season, with a winner awarded based on a ratio of matches played to matches won. The competition was renamed the Cricket Australia Cup ahead of the 2003–04 season in line with the ACB's rebrand to Cricket Australia. In 2009, ahead of the 2009–10 season, Cricket Australia revamped the competition to become a youth-focused under-23 tournament. Now known as the Futures League , it limited teams to just three overage players in their squad, and restricted matches to three days. While

525-535: A name of the sponsor as their team or club name (see List of sports clubs named after a sponsor). In association football , leagues and cup competitions sometimes adopt the name of their sponsors. For example, England 's Premier League was known as the Barclays Premier League until 2016, and its FA Cup is officially the Emirates FA Cup. The Premier League announced in 2015 that it would not accept

600-580: A property in recognition of the financial support. This is not a financial transaction in the style of the private sector. For example, in honor of the more than $ 60 million donated over the years by one donor to the National Air and Space Museum properties, the directors of the Smithsonian Institution chose to name its satellite facility in Loudoun County, Virginia , after the donor, calling it

675-461: A result of the pandemic. The pandemic delayed the launch timelines for USA Cricket 's planned domestic T20 leagues, with Minor League Cricket delayed to 2021, and Major League Cricket delayed to 2023 due to both the pandemic and the need to construct cricket-specific facilities. New Zealand's tour of the West Indies and South Africa's tour of the West Indies were both postponed, after

750-559: A season. The most recent championship was awarded in 2019–20 to the Queensland Academy of Sport . The Second XI competition was established in the 1999–2000 season on an experimental basis as the ACB Cup , named after the then Australian Cricket Board (ACB). Competing teams were divided into two groups and played a series of three-day and one-day matches against each other. The competition schedule grew in 2000–01 as each team would play

825-599: A title sponsorship beginning in the 2016–17 season. Since 2020, the French Professional Football Ligue adopted the name of Ligue 1 Uber Eats . In college football , most bowl games have modified their traditional names in favor of title sponsors, and in some cases have abandoned their traditional names. While most include their traditional name in some form (e.g. the Rose Bowl Game presented by Prudential ), some have moved to sponsor-only names (e.g.

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900-583: Is Willis Tower in Chicago which was and often still is referred to as the "Sears Tower", even though the building was sold in 1994 (but retained its former name until 2003). Sporting events such as the FIFA World Cup , UEFA Euro , Olympic Games and the Paralympic Games prohibit the use of corporate-sponsored name on stadiums, construing the practice as a form of ambush marketing . Any stadium that uses

975-496: Is not named after Toyota Motor Corporation , but the name of the city in which the stadium is located (though the city was named after the company). The regular corporate signage of a site, including billboards and deck advertising, is usually covered up in these cases; in the FIFA case the signage is replaced solely with FIFA sponsors. However, with the near-universal use of LED ribbon boards, scoreboards, and sideline boardings since

1050-455: Is a commercial company that since 1979 has sold unofficial naming rights to stars ( i.e. , the astronomical objects ). The naming services are limited to an entry in a book, and carry no scientific or official authenticity according to professional astronomers. In some places, and especially in the UK and United States, the naming or renaming of arenas or events is usually met with disapproval from

1125-668: Is best known to the non-farming public for its insurance business, acquired the naming rights to the University of Kentucky 's new baseball park in 2018. The Farm Bureau in turn donated those naming rights to the Kentucky Department of Agriculture , naming the venue Kentucky Proud Park . The sponsored name is the brand used by said state agency in its marketing campaign for agricultural products produced in that state. Naming rights in United States may have been traced back to 1912 with

1200-610: Is closely related. Probably the most notable example of this is Friends Arena , a major stadium in Stockholm . The facility was originally known as Swedbank Arena, but in 2012 that company donated those rights to the Friends Foundation, an organization heavily sponsored by Swedbank that seeks to combat school bullying . More recently, the Kentucky Farm Bureau , an organization promoting the interests of Kentucky farmers that

1275-467: Is largely traced to the family names of company founders. The record for the highest amount paid for naming rights belongs to Crypto.com Arena . On November 17, 2021, a 20-year, US$ 700 million sponsorship deal was reached between Anschutz Entertainment Group and Singapore-based Crypto.com to rename Los Angeles's Staples Center (the Staples office supply store chain was the previous naming rights holder to

1350-569: The Busch Memorial Stadium in 1966 , shortened in the 1970s to "Busch Stadium" and remained the stadium's name until it closed in 2005. By that time, Major League Baseball 's policy had changed – with Coors Field in Denver and Miller Park in Milwaukee going up in that span – and Anheuser-Busch (who retained the naming rights after selling the team) was able to use the same name for

1425-658: The Digital, Culture, Media and Sport Committee that the ECB could lose as much as £380 million if the entirety of the season were to be cancelled, and hoped that investments in the upcoming limited overs competition The Hundred could be a "profit centre" for the ECB. Australia were originally scheduled to tour England in July 2020 to play three One Day International (ODI) and three Twenty20 International (T20I) matches. Due to pandemic, in May 2020, it

1500-633: The Emirates Stadium , their previous ground being Arsenal Stadium . In cricket, the most famous example is The Oval , home of Surrey County Cricket Club . It has had several sponsors over the years, and is currently known as "The Kia Oval", having originally been known as the "Kennington Oval", after the district of London in which it is located. While the highest prices have traditionally been paid for stadium rights, many companies and individuals have found that selling their naming rights can be an important consideration in funding their business. Since

1575-570: The Gator Bowl was known for four playings as the TaxSlayer Bowl), a move that generally is treated with consternation from fans. Some newer bowl games have been named after title sponsors since inception—for example, the Blockbuster Bowl , original named after Blockbuster Video when it debuted in 1990, has gone through multiple sponsorship and naming changes; for its December 2023 playing, it

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1650-582: The International Cricket Council (ICC) announced that both the 2020 and 2021 editions of the Men's T20 World Cup had each been postponed by one year due to the pandemic. Therefore, the 2020 tournament was moved to November 2021 , and the 2021 tournament was moved to October 2022 . Due to the disruption of qualification , the 2023 Cricket World Cup was also rescheduled from February–March 2023 to October–November 2023. Australia and India retained

1725-517: The International Cricket Council (ICC) confirmed that the Scotland tri-series , also involving Nepal and Namibia has been postponed due to the pandemic. Australia were supposed to tour Scotland for a solitary T20I. However, on 17 June 2020, Cricket Scotland confirmed that the match had been cancelled. In August 2020, South Africa women's planned tour to England was cancelled. In November 2020, Ireland and Scotland women's planned tour to Spain

1800-580: The MBTA 's State Street station by Citizens Bank lasted from 1997 to 2000. In Tampa , naming rights for both streetcar stations and rolling stock are available. In December 2016, the Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority approved a naming rights policy for its facilities and routes, but later rescinded the policy two months later over potential lawsuits for skipping sponsors. Examples outside of

1875-584: The New York Giants and New York Jets in East Rutherford, New Jersey , US, was expected to eclipse both deals, with experts estimating it would value US$ 25–30 million annually. It ultimately fell short of that benchmark, with MetLife Stadium earning $ 17 million annually from its naming rights deal with MetLife . Occasionally, the purchaser of a stadium's naming rights may choose to donate those rights to an outside organization, typically one to which it

1950-541: The ODI matches between India and South Africa on 15 and 18 March , which were originally announced to be played without spectators. On the same day, the two-match Test series between Sri Lanka and England , scheduled to be played in March 2020, was also postponed. The remaining seven matches of the 2020 Road Safety World Series, a T20 tournament in India, were rescheduled to a later date. It

2025-471: The Sheffield Shield and grade cricket , the tournament reached its peak of public consciousness ahead of the 2009–10 season, when it rebranded to the Futures League . This coincided with a focus on youth, driven by a restriction on teams to field only three players over 23 years of age . This proved unpopular, and age restrictions were relaxed for the 2011–12 season before being removed entirely ahead of

2100-701: The Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center . Walgreen Coast , a portion of the coast of Antarctica , was so named because the Walgreens pharmacy chain sponsored the Byrd Antarctic Expedition . Impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on cricket The COVID-19 pandemic has caused disruption to cricket around the world, mirroring its impact across all sports . Around the world and to varying degrees, leagues and competitions have been cancelled or postponed. In July 2020,

2175-696: The Winston Cup Series featured sponsor names (including the Daytona 500 , which was given a presenting sponsor as the Daytona 500 by STP ), with little or no reference to the original names. As of the 2010s, very few exceptions remain in NASCAR (such as the Daytona 500, which no longer uses the presenting sponsor), and typically races without sponsor names only lack them because a suitable sponsor could not be secured in enough time. IndyCar follows suit, with most races (except

2250-591: The remaining two One Day International (ODI) matches of the Chappell–Hadlee Trophy along with the three-match Twenty20 International (T20I) series between Australia and New Zealand were cancelled due to new border restrictions imposed by the New Zealand government. The first ODI match of the series had been played on 13 March behind closed doors in Sydney . The following day, Cricket Australia confirmed that

2325-580: The 10 largest football stadiums have their naming rights sold to corporate sponsors. The practice is widening in the United Kingdom; for instance the current stadium of Bolton Wanderers is the Toughsheet Community Stadium (after 17 years as Reebok Stadium, 4 as Macron Stadium and 5 as the University of Bolton stadium) and Arsenal Football Club 's stadium (opened for the 2006/2007 season) is

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2400-553: The 2013–14 season. After 21 seasons of consecutive competition, the 2020–21 Second XI was cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic preventing play. Upon its resumption in the 2021–22 season, the Second XI abstained from publishing official points tables, meaning that champions are no longer awarded. League champions were previously calculated based on a points quotient that accounted for the varying numbers of matches that each team may play in

2475-557: The Cardinals' new stadium which opened on April 4, 2006. Foxboro Stadium , the home of the New England Patriots between 1971 and 2001, was an early example of a team selling naming rights to a company that did not own it, naming the stadium Schaefer Stadium after the beer company from its opening until 1983. The public reaction to this practice is mixed. Naming rights sold to new venues have largely been accepted, especially if

2550-455: The Cardinals, " Budweiser Stadium". When this idea was rejected by Ford Frick , the Commissioner of Baseball at that time, Anheuser-Busch then proposed the title "Busch Stadium" after one of the company's founders. The name was readily approved, and Anheuser-Busch subsequently released a new product called "Busch Bavarian Beer" (now known as Busch Beer ). The name would later be shifted to

2625-483: The Evraz steel company – mistakenly believing that the company's North American division was based there. However, the main motivation for accelerating the name change was the perceived need to disassociate with the steel company, largely owned by Russian oligarchs, following the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine . A nonprofit organization has the option to recognize a major gift from a donor by bestowing naming rights to

2700-511: The UAE . However, a COVID-19 outbreak in the UAE team meant that the tour schedule was changed multiple times, resulting in only two of the four matches being played. In India, the 2020–21 Ranji Trophy tournament was cancelled due to the pandemic, the first time since the tournament's inception in the 1934–35 season that the Ranji Trophy was not held. On 5 May 2021, the 2021 Indian Premier League

2775-608: The United States include Madrid Metro where the metro line Line 2 and the station Sol was renamed from 2013 to 2016 after the mobile phone operator Vodafone , and Monumento Station in the Manila Light Rail Transit System in the Philippines , which was renamed Yamaha Monumento Station on February 14, 2018, after renovations. Naming rights in the realm of sports is common for both stadiums and sports competitions and series. In addition, some sports teams adopt

2850-506: The West Indies tour to England was rescheduled. The ODI portion of an Ireland series in December 2021 against the United States was cancelled due to COVID-19 issues. On 23 March, the T20I series between Brazil women's team and Argentina women's team was postponed. The 2020 South American Cricket Championship were also cancelled after being postponed from October 2020. On 14 March 2020,

2925-634: The arena, having held them since the venue's opening in 1999). The home of the NHL 's Los Angeles Kings and NBA 's Los Angeles Lakers became known as Crypto.com Arena on December 25, 2021. Prior to the Crypto.com Arena deal, the record belonged to Toronto's Scotiabank Arena (formerly the Air Canada Centre, which opened in 1999), which garnered a deal of CA$ 800 million (US$ 517 million) over 20 years starting in 2018. The New Meadowlands Stadium, shared home of

3000-672: The buyer is well-established and has strong local connections to the area, such as the cases of Rich Stadium (now Highmark BlueCross BlueShield Stadium ) in the Buffalo suburb of Orchard Park , Heinz Field (now Acrisure Stadium) in Pittsburgh , and Coors Field in Denver . Selling the naming rights to an already-existing venue has been notably less successful, as in the attempt to rename Candlestick Park in San Francisco to 3Com Park. The general public (and some media outlets) continued to call

3075-524: The disease. The 2020 Everest Premier League in Nepal was also postponed on 12 March. On 13 March, the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) announced that the start of 2020 Indian Premier League will be postponed from 29 March to 15 April. On 16 April, BCCI suspended the tournament indefinitely due to the pandemic and on 4 June BCCI announced that IPL will staged outside India. On 13 March, BCCI cancelled

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3150-560: The early 2000s, many new categories have opened up, such as the selling of the rights to name a new monkey species for $ 650,000. Naming rights to public transit stations have been sold in Las Vegas and Philadelphia ( NRG station , Jefferson Station , and Penn Medicine station ). Such sales have been contemplated in New York and Boston , and ruled out in San Francisco. A sponsorship for

3225-547: The facility what it had been known as for over three decades – i.e. Candlestick Park. After the agreement with 3Com expired, the rights were resold to Monster Cable , and the stadium was renamed Monster Park . San Francisco voters responded by passing an initiative (Proposition H) in the November 2004 elections that essentially stipulated the name must revert to Candlestick Park once the contract with Monster expired in 2008. The initiative proved largely ceremonial, however, and it

3300-528: The final round of matches in the 2019–20 Sheffield Shield season had been cancelled, with New South Wales being named as the winners of the tournament. New Zealand Cricket cancelled the final two rounds of matches in the 2019–20 Plunket Shield season , with Wellington being named the winners of the tournament. On 24 March 2020, the ICC confirmed that all ICC qualifying events, across all regions, scheduled to take place before 30 June 2020 had been postponed due to

3375-548: The format still allowed for two innings per side, each team's first innings overs were limited to 96 and total overs to 144. A week-long Futures League Twenty20 tournament was also added to the schedule. Beginning in the 2011–12 season, the Futures League returned to four-day matches with no over restrictions and increased the amount of overage players per team to six. However, the age restrictions remained controversial, with West Australian all-rounder Theo Doropoulous describing

3450-409: The general public. Some people see it as an example of a selling out , especially when they see no obvious benefit to themselves. They often refuse to use a new name, preferring instead to use a non-branded name, especially in colloquial situations. Rebranding can also lead to confusion. In such cases, there may be a lengthy period during which the property is known by both names. A common example

3525-547: The league as a "glorified juniors competition" in a July 2013 Tumblr post. This prompted Cricket Australia to remove age restrictions entirely in November 2013. Ahead of the 2019–20 season, the competition rebranded to the Second XI to better reflect the purpose of the league. The Second XI competition began in the 1999–2000 season as an experimental tournament conducted by the Australian Cricket Board . Teams played

3600-410: The mid-2000s in most major league sites where only known sponsors have advertising displayed, "neutralizing" an arena has become a much easier process than in the past. Regina, Saskatchewan 's REAL District was formerly named " Evraz Place"; when discussing its 2022 rebranding, its owner Regina Exhibition Association Limited stated that it had sometimes received shipments and communications meant for

3675-463: The number of coronavirus cases around the country. The Bangladesh tour of Pakistan for a single ODI and a Test match was also postponed. On 24 March 2020, the International Cricket Council (ICC) confirmed that all ICC qualifying events scheduled to take place before 30 June 2020 had been postponed due to the COVID-19 pandemic . This included 2020–21 ICC Men's T20 World Cup Asia Qualifier for Western and Eastern sub-regions. On 9 April 2020, there

3750-668: The opening of Fenway Park in Boston . The stadium's owner had owned a realty company called "Fenway Realty" (itself, like the stadium, named for a nearby parkland ), so the promotional value of the naming may have likely been considered. Despite this, it is more widely believed to have begun in 1926 when William Wrigley , the chewing gum magnate and owner of the Chicago Cubs , named his team's stadium " Wrigley Field ". In 1953, Anheuser-Busch head and St. Louis Cardinals owner August Busch, Jr. proposed renaming Sportsman's Park , occupied by

3825-568: The overall standings due to T20 results carrying less weight. Following a year's break in competition due to the COVID-19 pandemic preventing play, the Second XI resumed in the 2021–22 season without official points tables, meaning that champions are no longer awarded. Naming rights The distinctive characteristic for this type of naming rights is that the buyer gets a marketing property to promote products and services, promote customer retention and/or increase market share. There are several forms of corporate sponsored names. For example,

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3900-550: The pandemic. On 13 March 2020, the 2020 United States Tri-Nation Series was postponed due to the pandemic and travel restrictions to the United States. The tri-series also involved Scotland and the UAE . The 2019–20 West Indies Championship was suspended due to the pandemic and Barbados was declared the champion on 24 March. The men's and women's Central American Cricket Championship were scheduled for April and May 2020 respectively. On 1 April, both tournaments were cancelled as

3975-631: The pandemic. On 9 July 2020, the 2020 Asia Cup was postponed until the following July, with the 2020 Asia Cup Qualifier tournament cancelled. On 25 August 2020, the ICC confirmed that the 2020 Malaysia Cricket World Cup Challenge League A tournament had been postponed again due to the pandemic. The following month, it was confirmed that the 2020 edition of the Women's Asia Cup , scheduled to take place in September in Bangladesh, had also been cancelled due to

4050-434: The pandemic. On 28 September 2020, Bangladesh's planned tour to Sri Lanka was postponed for a second time, after both cricket boards could not agree on the quarantine requirements. In October 2020, the Bangladesh Cricket Board (BCB) confirmed that there would be no edition of the Bangladesh Premier League in 2020, due to the pandemic. In January 2021, the Ireland cricket team were scheduled to play four ODIs against

4125-408: The pandemic. This included tri-series between PNG , Nepal and UAE. On 30 June 2020, Zimbabwe's ODI tour to Australia was postponed. On 4 August 2020, the West Indies T20I tour to Australia was also postponed. On 25 September 2020, Cricket Australia confirmed that the one-off Test match against Afghanistan , and the limited-overs series against New Zealand had both been postponed due to

4200-452: The program ; examples include The Fleischmann's Yeast Hour , Texaco Star Theatre and The Philco Television Playhouse . This form of sponsorship fell out of favor in the late 1950s, although later examples include Mutual of Omaha's Wild Kingdom , which originally aired from 1963 to 1988. One of the last surviving examples is the now irregularly-airing Hallmark Hall of Fame , on the air since 1951. The International Star Registry

4275-409: The qualifier had given them a fair chance of qualifying for the finals and/or the Women's Championship, but due to their lack of ranking, were instead left out of either. Due to concerns over the COVID-19 situation in India, in June 2021 the ICC announced that the 2021 Men's T20 World Cup would be re-located to sites in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) and Oman. India remained the formal host nation of

4350-413: The rights to host the Men's T20 World Cup, with the ICC announcing on 8 August that India will host the 2021 tournament, and Australia will host the 2022 tournament. The ICC also confirmed that the 2021 Women's Cricket World Cup and the tournament's qualifier had each been postponed by one year due to the pandemic. The qualifier itself would ultimately be cancelled midway through due to concerns about

4425-464: The rise of the Omicron variant in South Africa while the qualifier was being held in neighboring Zimbabwe, and instead of using the results from the games completed, Women's ODI rankings were used to qualify Bangladesh , Pakistan , and the West Indies for the finals, and Sri Lanka and Ireland for the next cycle of the ICC Women's Championship , a decision that controversially and detrimentally affected Thailand , an Associate team whose results in

4500-419: The then-Futures League for the 2018–19 season. Rather than contributing to the overall win-loss ledger, pairs of teams had either eight, six, four or two points added to their full-length season points total depending on their performance in the T20 carnival. This continued in the 2019–20 season, leading to a situation where although Western Australia won the most total matches for the year, they finished second in

4575-412: The three series got cancelled. On 21 April 2020, the Dutch government banned all public events in the country through August, requiring the postponement of tours of the Netherlands by New Zealand , Pakistan and the West Indies . A quadrangular series to by played in Netherlands in June was also postponed. On 5 May 2020, Tom Harrison , chief of the England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB), told

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4650-577: The tournament postponed and hosted again on 1 June.) On 11 March 2020, English teams Worcestershire and Surrey both cancelled their pre-season warm-up tours to the United Arab Emirates. The following day, Australia Women's tour to South Africa in March 2020 became the first major international series to be curtailed due to the pandemic. On 21 March 2020, announcement was made for postponement of Bangladesh's summer tour to Ireland . Teams from Austria , Luxembourg and Romania were to tour Belgium for their T20 international series in April and May. All

4725-411: The tournament. In May 2021, five teams dropped off the ICC Men's T20I Team Rankings rankings due to failing to play enough fixtures to qualify in the relevant period. The 2020 ACA Africa T20 Cup was scheduled to take place in Kenya in March 2020, before it was postponed in line with the Kenyan government's 30-day ban on international gatherings. On 13 March 2020, the Netherlands tour to Namibia

4800-412: The tournament. Matches were reduced to three days for the following two seasons. During this time, a Twenty20 (T20) tournament ran concurrently, and a winner was crowned separately to the full-length competition. Four-day cricket returned from 2011–12 onwards, and the T20 tournament would continue in its own right until the end of the 2014–15 season. After a three-year hiatus, a T20 component returned to

4875-447: The very traditional Indianapolis 500 ) embracing title sponsorship. Sports media coverage (such as ESPN news reports) typically refer to races by the town in which the home race track is held, avoiding the use of sponsored names in news coverage. Television and radio series, especially in the early days of each medium in the early-mid 20th century, frequently sold the naming rights to their programs to sponsors, most of whom bankrolled

4950-419: Was an announcement of postponement of Australia-Bangladesh Test series . On 20 April 2020, Sri Lanka and South Africa cricket boards confirmed that SA tour to the island nation has been postponed. On 23 June 2020, New Zealand cricket team's tour to Bangladesh , which was scheduled to take place in August, was postponed. A day later, on 24 June 2020, the Bangladesh's tour to Sri Lanka was postponed due to

5025-452: Was called off, following an increase of COVID-19 cases in Zimbabwe . Later the same month, the Netherlands' tour to Zimbabwe was also called off, along with Pakistan's planned tour to South Africa . In December 2020, England's ODI matches against South Africa were postponed following a COVID-19 outbreak. In December 2020, the first match of South Africa vs England (under South Africa's ICC Men's Cricket World Cup Super League series)

5100-492: Was cancelled due to the pandemic. Three days later, Ireland's tour to Zimbabwe also got cancelled. On 24 March, Namibia tri-series was postponed. On 11 June 2020, the ICC confirmed that the Cricket World Cup Challenge League B has been postponed due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The following month, the ICC also confirmed that the Namibia Tri-Nation Series , scheduled to take place in September 2020, had also been postponed. In August 2020, Afghanistan's tour to Zimbabwe

5175-429: Was earlier decided that the remaining seven matches of the tournament would be played behind the closed doors in DY Patil Stadium . A women's quadrangular series was scheduled to take place in Thailand in April 2020, but was cancelled a month before it was due to start. The 2020 Malaysia Cricket World Cup Challenge League A , scheduled to take place in March 2020, was postponed, along with two T20I matches between

5250-442: Was initially postponed (later on cancelled) after two players of England Cricket Team tested positive for COVID-19 and also found breaching codes of bio-secure environment. In early February 2021, Australian men announced that they would postpone their upcoming tour of South Africa because of the unacceptable risk of contracting COVID-19 whilst on Tour, along with difficulty in repatriating any Tour party members were some to contract

5325-565: Was known as the Pop-Tarts Bowl. Team names and even whole leagues have occasionally been sold to corporate sponsors as well (examples include the New York Red Bulls in the former case, the NET10 Wireless Arena Football League for the latter), but this is generally rare in the United States and more common in other parts of the world. During the 1980s, sanctioned auto races in NASCAR and IndyCar began to abandon their traditional names in favor of exclusive sponsor names. The trend expanded rapidly in NASCAR such that in 1991, all 29 races in

5400-426: Was overturned by the passage of Proposition C in 2009 in response to desperate economic times. The naming rights to the park were never resold and the stadium was closed and demolished in 2014. Sports stadiums with naming rights deals are most common in but not limited to the United States. "Named" stadiums can be found in countries including Australia, Japan, China, Finland, Canada, Israel and Germany, where 8 of

5475-582: Was postponed, after Scotland withdrew. In September 2020, the seventh edition of the Central Europe Cup in Prague was one of several annual associate member tournaments to be cancelled. In November 2020, the planned Cricket World Cup Super League fixtures between the Netherlands and England was postponed. The series was originally scheduled to be played in May 2021, but it was moved to May 2022 due to

5550-479: Was suggested that the dates for the series were moved back to September . The New Zealand tour of Ireland was postponed on 15 May 2020 due to the pandemic. At the same time Pakistan's tour was also called-off. On 1 June 2020, the Professional Cricketers' Association confirmed that county cricketers will continue to take pay cuts of up to 20 per cent for the months of June and July. On 10 June 2020,

5625-471: Was suspended indefinitely, after a rise in COVID-19 cases within teams. The remainder of the season was played in the UAE. In Pakistan, the 2021 Pakistan Super League was postponed from March–April to 1 June. They were hosted in United Arab Emirates due to growing cases of the COVID-19 pandemic . The winner surprisingly became Multan Sultans (They were below the table for the entire time. Until

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