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Cricket tour gets 'multi-sensual'

Brand agency RPM has designed a 'multi-sensory roadshow' for the England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB) to promote the new Twenty20 county cricket tournament.

The roadshow, managed on the ground by event agency Watermark, is touring the UK for four months.

The ECB's new Twenty20 version of cricket is designed to appeal to a new generation of cricket fans with a target audience age of 16-34 years old.

By introducing the new format, the ECB hopes to attract an entirely new match attendance.

The new brand experience - which claims to 'transport the audience into the middle of a match' - is housed in three identical seven-metre trailers, and will play a key role in introducing the Twenty20 concept to target audiences.

Said Kate Flawn, senior account manager at RPM, comments:
"We were delighted to be asked to provide experiential creative consultancy on this project.

"The experience we have designed gives a fresh, unique and close-up insight into the national summer game and we are confident it will help introduce a whole new kind of spectator to the sport."