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

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

The county will play under the name for the first time against Lancashire in Abu Dhabi on 21 March.

"We believe we are the first club in county cricket to move into such a ground-breaking innovative deal," said chief executive Stewart Regan.

The university will continue to invest in the county and Regan revealed that the name change had met with little opposition.

"It was not a hard decision for the board to make when we decided to get rid of the Phoenix name and move into the Yorkshire Carnegie naming deal," Regan told BBC Radio Leeds.

"Its a six-figure investment on a five-year deal. The University has invested a lot of money with the club in the naming rights of the stadium and are due to invest somewhere in the region of �17m to help us with the development of our new pavilion."

The county will wear new black and gold kits in all one-day competitions.