The county currently play as Hampshire Hawks in all forms of one-day cricket.

Bransgrove told BBC Radio Solent: "I would not like to drop all the tradition of English cricket in the more conventional forms of the game.

"But I see Twenty20 as a sort of franchise so I wouldn't rule anything out. It has brought a new audience so we treat it slightly differently."

Yorkshire have already announced they will be known as Yorkshire Carnegie in one-day cricket this season.

Their name change from Yorkshire Phoenix follows a "significant investment" from Leeds Metropolitan University.