Jack Brooks admits he would be amazed if Yorkshire ever willingly followed Warwickshire’s lead and changed their name for Twenty20 cricket.

The Edgbaston club revealed this week that they will play as the Birmingham Bears in the 2014 NatWest T20 Blast, which has not gone down well with the county’s supporters.

Warwickshire have said the move provides them with “a great opportunity to engage even more closely with fans at the heart of the city”.

But one of the main arguments against it is that it is likely to alienate fans in places such as Coventry and Wolverhampton.

Headingley fast bowler Brooks said: “I can’t see Yorkshire ever turning into a Leeds Rhinos or something like that. Surely it would just alienate a few thousand fans from other parts of the county.

“I’m not sure why teams are doing it, to be honest. At the end of the day, if the weather’s good, it’s on a Friday night and your team’s playing well, people are going to come and watch.

“Glamorgan changed their name to Welsh Dragons a couple of seasons ago, which made a bit more sense to me than Birmingham Bears. But I don’t see the point.

“Cricket’s been played in this country for long enough with county names and I don’t really see the need to change them.

“Maybe Warwickshire are thinking this is the way cricket will go and they are expecting others to follow suit.”

Brooks is right, in that it would be a major surprise to see Yorkshire change their name to incorporate a city name. That is unless the ECB forced every county to do it as part of a major overhaul of the domestic Twenty20 competition.

The idea of city Twenty20 cricket in England was discussed a few years ago, although it did not gather any pace.

City cricket in Australia has taken off during the last three years in the form of the Big Bash league, although sporting rivalries are generally within cities Down Under. For example, there are ten Australian Rules football clubs in Melbourne alone.

But Brooks, who is back in pre-season training with Yorkshire, said: “You can’t compare different countries and the way they go about things.

“Australia have rebranded their Big Bash competition and it’s worked for them, to be fair. It’s one of the best T20 competitions in the world. But their country’s completely different to ours.

“If you completely rebranded it over here, you might have to have a new competition on the side. But then you are probably playing too much cricket.”