Friends Provident Trophy

Friends Provident Trophy

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)

The Friends Provident Trophy was a one-day cricket competition in the United Kingdom.

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.