South African First Class Cricket Loses Sponsor (02 Apr 1996)
South African Breweries - sponsors of domestic first class cricket in South Africa since 1972 - have terminated their sponsorship of the competition currently known as the Castle Cup with immediate effect
02-Apr-1996
South Africa First Class Cricket Loses Sponsor
South African Breweries - sponsors of domestic first class cricket in South Africa since 1972 - have terminated their sponsorship
of the competition currently known as the Castle Cup with immediate effect.
SAB will continue to sponsor the South African side in test
cricket both at home and abroad.
Meanwhile, the UCB have announced that a new sponsor has been
found to replace SAB. The sponsor - to be named later this month
- has already signed a five year deal.
More news from South Africa is that the inter-provincial first
class competition will be expanded next season when Griqualand
West will be admitted as the ninth team in the competition.
Finally, the UCB has announced that thirteen of the fourteen
players who represented South Africa in the 1996 World Cup have
been placed under contract for the next twelve months. The unlucky world cup team member is Steve Palframan. David Richardson,
who will represent South Africa in the upcoming Sharjah ODI tournament will also be retained.
This announcement would seem to imply that Richardson and Fanie
de Villiers will not be retiring before the test series against
Australia in 1997.