Over the years, I've seen Cricket matches depicted on Lovejoy, All Creatures Great and Small, To The Manor Born, Downton Abbey, and many other British TV series. The fifth Doctor even played Cricket in the Doctor Who story Black Orchid. But I never expected to see my Valiant heroes cheering on a game from the sidelines.
VALIANT ENTERTAINMENT PARTNERS WITH US OPEN CRICKET!
New York, NY (November XX, 2020) – Valiant Entertainment is partnering with the US Open Cricket Council for the upcoming US Open to pay tribute to first responders.
Valiant Entertainment is joining forces to pay tribute to first responders with new digital billboards at the US Open event run by the US Open Cricket Council! Fans will have a chance to see heroes from the Valiant Universe supporting the heroes on the frontline of the COVID crisis.
Chairman and CEO of CCUSA, Mahammad Qureshi (MAQ) is
pleased to have US Open Cricket partnering with Valiant Entertainment
to salute our “Superhero First Responders” during this year’s open.
“Bringing Valiant’s pop culture superheroes and the US Open Cricket’s
sports heroes’ huge audiences together to salute first responders is
a cause that will be heard around the world. This relationship will also
bring lots of fun download activities for families to participate in
while enjoying the fastest growing sport in the world, US Open Cricket!”
"Promotional Marketing that brings Sports and Entertainment together
provides a promotional overlay of value to new and current partners of
US Open Cricket Council and Valiant Entertainment,” said Douglas Haase Sponsorship Manager CCUSA and CEO Haaseline Entertainment
Russ Brown, Valiant's President of Consumer Products, Promotions & Ad Sales, explains why he’s so excited for this partnership. “We
are very excited to see how MAQ is taking this massively popular global
sport and building it for the US market—for kids as well as adults, and
we see a wonderful fit for our transmedia demographic. And he had us at
hello when he expressed interest in Valiant's participation in
supporting first responders.”
The US Open runs December 15th – 20th, 2020. For more information please go to www.cricketusopen.com.
For more news about Valiant Entertainment, including new stories for
Bloodshot, X-O Manowar, and news about upcoming offerings beyond comics,
head over to www.valiantentertainment.com
As always, Stay Safe, Stay Healthy, and Stay Valiant!
Incidentally, Science Fiction author Douglas Adams tried to get the Doctor Who team to film a story about robots attacking players at Lord's Cricket Ground, the revered British Cricket venue, when he served as Script Editor during the fourth Doctor's reign. While the production team rejected his idea, the robot invasion of Lord's occurred regardless, and proved to have far-reaching interstellar consequences in Life, the Universe, and Everything, the third novel in his Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy series. Who knows where Valiant's partnership with the US Open Cricket Council might lead? Might Ninjak, the disavowed MI6 agent, invade the TARDIS in Doctor Who? Might he star in a series of movies that rivals the venerable James Bond franchise?
I guess we will have to wait and see.
Dragon Dave
P.S. As always, many thanks to Valiant for sharing the good news with us
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