Durham Cricket has signed up County Durham-based property and mining firm the Banks Group as its new principal partner in an agreement which also includes the naming rights to the Riverside ground.
Kenny, 32, becomes the youngest President in the history of the organisation and the third consecutive woman to hold the role following Dame Kelly Holmes and Dame Denise Lewis.
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