Lord’s MCC asks fans for new names for Hundred team London Spirit

Friday 04 April 2025 5:00 pm
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Friday 04 April 2025 3:15 pm

London Spirit have requested followers for brand new title strategies for the Hundred franchise forward of the 2025 cricket competitors.

The Marylebone Cricket Membership is within the technique of surveying followers forward of this yr’s competitors.

They’ve requested a choose fan group to determine whether or not the London Spirit electrical blue or MCC egg and bacon colors are extra recognisable.

Additional to this, they’ve requested whether or not followers usually tend to assist the crew if it does or doesn’t have the phrases “London” and “Lord’s” in its title, whereas additionally asking followers for crew strategies.

“In case you have any,” the survey despatched to followers stated, “please present another strategies for the crew based mostly at Lord’s”.

The MCC are set to promote a minority stake in London Spirit to a consortium of tech traders, together with executives at Microsoft, Google and Adobe.

Within the London Spirit

The close to 50 per cent stake buy is about to worth the Lord’s based mostly franchise at £295m, over double Oval Invincibles, which is valued at nearer £125m.

There have been discussions up to now surrounding a possible equipment color swap from the Spirit blue to egg and bacon yellow and purple – the normal colors of the MCC.

Different questions requested inside the survey included: “Are you conscious of the London Spirit colors?” and “Are you conscious of MCC’s membership colors?”

The survey then requested, “which of the next colors are extra interesting to you?” earlier than asking whether or not followers have any new equipment color strategies for the crew.

London Spirit at present maintain the ladies’s title, having crushed Welsh Hearth in 2024 to win their inaugural title.

The boys’s crew are but to win the event or function within the closing, regardless of all males’s and girls’s finals happening at Lord’s – the Residence of Cricket.

The Hundred returns this summer time throughout the UK.