RAM to sponsor domestic T20 competition of South Africa

RAM Hand to Hand Couriers has decided to sponsor the domestic T20 competition of South Africa yet again. The sponsorship came as a timely boost for Cricket South Africa (CSA) as the postponement of T20 Global League has already attracted a lot of ire. They were struggling to attract the sponsors for the tournament ahead of the first game on Friday. However, they will now be extremely pleased that they have got back their old sponsors and the competition will be called as RAM SLAM T20 Challenge.

The company had previously pulled out in 2016 following the match-fixing controversy which plagued the competition. Also, CSA decided to bring it forward after an untimely postponement of T20 Global League which had created a lot of buzz in the country. The partnership between the two parties seems to be reunited which had been disturbed due to the arrival of Global League. The agreement has been reached now as CSA has managed to salvage some credibility and will now look to make the tournament a big success with the availability of the star players.

We are grateful to them

Thabang Moroe, the acting Chief Executive of CSA, was pleased and welcomed back the title sponsors of the tournament. “It is great news for our cricket to welcome Ram Hand to Hand Couriers back as one of our naming rights sponsors. We are particularly grateful to them for coming aboard at unavoidably short notice. This season’s competition, which will feature all our Proteas, will probably be the most significant since we launched the franchise concept in this format back in 2004,” he said.

The Executive Chairperson of RAM, David Lazarus explained the decision of them sponsoring the tournament. Ram is a proudly South African company. Our business has been built on partnership, reliability and delivering when it counts. When we received the call from CSA regarding the opportunity the answer was an unequivocal ‘yes’ as everything spoke directly to what we are about.”We are excited to revive the Ram Slam and we challenge all South Africans to come and support their team and stand a chance to win their share of R2 million,” he was quoted as saying by sports24.co.za.