Vertu Motors has grow to be the primary ever shirt sponsor of Somerset Girls’s Nation Cricket Membership Workforce.
The 2023 girls’s package is similar because the Males’s group for the primary time since Somerset Womens’ first recorded recreation in 1956.
The pink and black package will probably be worn throughout the T20 and Vitality Blast competitions.
Vertu Motors started its relationship with the membership in February following the acquisition of 28 gross sales retailers within the South West from Helston Garages Group.
Somerset Pathway Coach & Girls and Ladies Lead, Kieran Peters stated: “I do know the ladies are excited to have the identical T20 package as the lads this 12 months. It’s one other step in the best path for the expansion of Somerset Girls’s County Cricket and we want to thank the Membership for his or her continued help.
“Will probably be superior to observe the women run onto the sphere on the Cooper Associates County Floor on T20 finals day (Sunday Could 14th) and hopefully carry house some silverware underneath the lights at house.”
Robert Forrester, chief govt of Vertu Motors, stated: “It’s at all times thrilling to see our model featured on prestigious group kits, round stadiums and in match protection. I’m happy with our rising portfolio of sports activities partnerships and notably of the position we play in supporting girls’s sport.
“Having lately acquired a variety of dealerships within the South West, we need to set up our model throughout the neighborhood; being the Somerset County Cricket Membership Girls’s first shirt sponsor is a implausible approach to try this.
“Backing the group is a big step in direction of bringing better parity within the recreation. I hope it can encourage extra companies to indicate their help.
“Somerset County Cricket Membership is producing some glorious girls gamers and I’m actually trying ahead to supporting the group over the summer season.”
Business director, Caroline Herbert stated: “Somerset County Cricket Membership has a protracted and proud historical past of supporting and delivering the ladies’s recreation throughout the South West and we’re completely delighted that the women and men will probably be carrying the identical shirt.
“There has by no means been a extra thrilling time to be concerned in girls’s cricket, and we are going to proceed to do every part that we are able to to advertise the sport. In addition to promoting out our Girls’s Ashes ODI, we’re so excited to be staging the ultimate of the ladies’s home T20 competitors underneath lights in Could.
“To see Somerset Girls raise that trophy on the Cooper Associates County Floor can be a dream come true for therefore many individuals, and I want to take this chance to thank Vertu Motors for his or her help of the group.”