{"id":591113,"date":"2025-11-24T16:51:16","date_gmt":"2025-11-24T16:51:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/591113\/"},"modified":"2025-11-24T16:51:16","modified_gmt":"2025-11-24T16:51:16","slug":"warwickshire-bears-drop-birmingham-in-t20-blast-rebrand","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/591113\/","title":{"rendered":"Warwickshire Bears drop Birmingham in T20 Blast rebrand"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">The Birmingham Bears will be renamed the Warwickshire Bears in the T20 Blast from next season.<\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The county <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/sport\/cricket\/25101663\" class=\"ssrcss-k8mrr8-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">dropped Warwickshire from its name<\/a> in the T20 format in 2014, but have decided to bring it back to &#8220;unite&#8221; the men&#8217;s and women&#8217;s teams.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Warwickshire has and always will be at the heart of who we are. It&#8217;s our identity and has been for well over a century,&#8221; chief executive, Stuart Cain <a href=\"https:\/\/edgbaston.com\/news\/vitality-blast-teams-to-rebrand-as-warwickshire-bears-for-2026\/\" class=\"ssrcss-k8mrr8-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">told the club website, external<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Over a decade ago, the club decided to be bold with a city-based name for our T20 team, and it saw attendances grow to record levels and attract new fans to the Bears.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;But with our long-term future in mind, and following feedback from members through the members&#8217; committee, now is the right time for change.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;We represent the county, and that&#8217;s what returning to Warwickshire Bears is about.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Warwickshire&#8217;s Edgbaston home &#8211; which hosts T20 Finals Day &#8211; will continue to be known as EdgBLASTon for T20 games following its rebranding this season.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Fixtures for next summer&#8217;s T20 Blast competition will be announced on Tuesday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Birmingham Bears will be renamed the Warwickshire Bears in the T20 Blast from next season. The county&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":591114,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7820],"tags":[855,748,393,4884,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-591113","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-birmingham","8":"tag-birmingham","9":"tag-britain","10":"tag-england","11":"tag-great-britain","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115605712719865504","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/591113","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=591113"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/591113\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/591114"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=591113"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=591113"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=591113"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}