Friends Provident Trophy
The Friends Provident Trophy was a one-day cricket competition in the United Kingdom.
Trophy in 2009, held aloft by Sean Ervine and Imran Tahir of Hampshire CCC | |
| Countries | England |
|---|---|
| Administrator | England and Wales Cricket Board |
| Format | List A cricket |
| First edition | 1963 |
| Latest edition | 2009 |
| Number of teams | 20 |
| Current champion | Hampshire |
| Most successful | Lancashire (7 titles) |
It was one of the four tournaments in which the eighteen first-class counties competed each season. They were joined by teams from Scotland and Ireland. Lancashire won the title a record seven times.
The competition was previously known as the Gillette Cup (1963–1980), the NatWest Trophy (1981–2000), and the C&G Trophy (2000–2006). For a short period following the 2006 season, the competition was known as the ECB One-Day Trophy because no sponsors were forthcoming when Cheltenham and Gloucester decided to end their association with the competition after the 2006 season. The tournament, along with the Pro40 forty-overs competition, was replaced by the ECB 40 competition from the 2010 season.