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Leicestershire County Cricket Club is one of eighteen first-classcounty clubs within the domestic cricket structure of England and Wales. It represents the historic county of Leicestershire. It has also been representative of the county of Rutland. The club's limited overs team is called the Leicestershire Foxes. Founded in 1879, the club had minor county status until 1894, when it was promoted to first-class status pending its entry into the County Championship in 1895.BOOK, ACS, Association of Cricket Statisticians and Historians, A Guide to First-Class Cricket Matches Played in the British Isles, 1982, ACS, Nottingham, Since then, Leicestershire have played in every top-level domestic cricket competition in England.The club is based at Grace Road, Leicester, known as Uptonsteel County Ground. and have also played home games at Aylestone Road in Leicester, at Hinckley, Loughborough, Melton Mowbray, Ashby-de-la-Zouch, Coalville, Uppingham and Oakham inside the traditional county boundaries.In limited overs cricket, the kit colours are red with black trim in the Royal London One Day Cup and black with red trim in the T20. The shirt sponsors are Oval Insurance Broking with Highcross Leicester (shopping centre) on the top reverse side of the shirt.Leicestershire are in the second division of the County Championship and in the north group of the Royal London One Day Cup. They recently finished bottom of the County Championship for the sixth time since the introduction of two divisions. Their best showing in recent years has been in the Twenty20 Cup with the Foxes winning the trophy three times in eight years.

Honours

{{See also|List of the competitive honours won by county cricket clubs in England and Wales}}

First XI honours



Runners-up (2) – 1982, 1994


Runners-up: 1972, 2001


Runners-up: 1992, 2001


Runners-up: 1974, 1998

Second XI honours



Runners-up: 1961, 1975
+ 1 Bain Hogg Trophy – second XI one-day competition – 1996

History

Earliest cricket

Cricket may not have reached Leicestershire until well into the 18th century. A notice in the Leicester Journal dated 17 August 1776 is the earliest known mention of cricket in the county. Soon afterwards, a Leicestershire and Rutland Cricket Club was taking part in important matches, mainly against Nottingham Cricket Club and Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC). This club was prominent from 1781 until the beginning of the 19th century.

19th century

Little more is heard of Leicestershire cricket until the formation of the present club on 25 March 1879.Essex CCC versus Leicestershire CCC at Leyton on 14, 15 & 16 May 1894 was the first first-class match for both clubs. In 1895, the County Championship was restructured into a 14-team competition with the introduction of Essex, Leicestershire and Warwickshire CCC.

Early and mid-20th century

Leicestershire's first 70 years were largely spent in lower table mediocrity, with few notable exceptions. In 1953, the motivation of secretary-captain Charles Palmer lifted the side fleetingly to third place, but most of the rest of the 1950s was spent propping up the table, or thereabouts.

Start of improvement: The late 1950s and the 1960s

Change came in the late 1950s with the recruitment of the charismatic Willie Watson at the end of a distinguished career with England and Yorkshire. Watson's run gathering sparked the home-grown Maurice Hallam into becoming one of England's best opening batsmen. In bowling, Leicestershire had an erratically successful group of seamers in Terry Spencer, Brian Boshier, John Cotton and Jack van Geloven, plus the spin of John Savage.Another change was in the captaincy: Tony Lock, the former England and Surrey spinner who had galvanised Western Australia.

The 1970s and the first golden era

Ray Illingworth, again from Yorkshire, instilled self-belief to the extent that the county took its first ever trophy in 1972, the Benson & Hedges Cup with Chris Balderstone man of the match. This was start of the first golden era as the first of five trophies in five years and included Leicestershire's first ever County Championship title in 1975. A couple of runners up spots were also thrown in.WEB,weblink Queen of the South FC - Official website, Qosfc.com, 4 May 2013, The game when Leicestershire won their first ever County Championship, on 15 September 1975, marked something of a personal triumph for Chris Balderstone. Batting on 51 not out against Derbyshire at Chesterfield, after close of play he changed into his football kit to play for Doncaster Rovers in an evening match 30 miles away (a 1–1 draw with Brentford). Thus he is the only player to have played League Football and first class cricket on the same day. He then returned to Chesterfield to complete a century the following morning and take three wickets to wrap up the title. To add to that season's success for Leicestershire was a second Benson & Hedges victory.

The 1980s

A runners up spot in the 1982 County Championship brought some respectability, but the decade's only silverware was in the 1985 Benson & Hedges Cup with Balderstone still on board making him the most successful trophy winner in the club's history with six.

Success in the late 1990s

Leicestershire won the county championship in 1996, and again in 1998. This was an amazing achievement considering the resources of the club compared to other county teams. This Leicestershire side, led by Jack Birkenshaw and James Whitaker, used team spirit and togetherness to get the best out of a group of players who were either discarded from other counties or brought through the Leicestershire ranks.This team did not have many stars, but Aftab Habib, Darren Maddy, Vince Wells, Jimmy Ormond, Alan Mullally and Chris Lewis all had chances for England. West Indian all-rounder Phil Simmons was also named as one of Wisden's Cricketers of the year in 1997 while playing for the club.

2000 and beyond: Twenty20 success and four-day struggles

The advent of Twenty20 cricket saw Leicestershire find a new source of success, winning the domestic T20 competition in 2004, 2006 and 2011. However, in the era of two-division County Championship cricket they have found success more difficult to come by, having not played in the top division since 2003 and been regular "wooden spoon" contenders. In 2013 and 2014 they finished without a single Championship win, the first team to achieve this unwanted feat in back to back seasons since Northamptonshire just before World War II.

Grounds

Current

Previous

Players

{{Further|List of Leicestershire CCC players}}

Current squad

  • No. denotes the player's squad number, as worn on the back of their shirt.
  • {{double-dagger}} denotes players with international caps.
  • {{Color box|CFECEC||border=darkgray}} denotes a player who has been awarded a county cap.{| class="wikitable" style="width:80%"
! No.! Name! Nationality! Birth date! Batting style! Bowling style! Notes! colspan="7" | Battersstyle="background:#cfecec;"! colspan="7" | All-rounders! colspan="7" | Wicket-keepers! colspan="7" | Bowlersstyle="background:#cfecec;"
Lewis Hill (cricketer, born 1990)>Lewis Hill
od_captain TBC Peter Handscomb]] (T20)
1 Sol Budinger {{cr199921Off spin>off break
14 Marcus Harris (cricketer) {{double-dagger}} >Australia}} {{birth date and age7df=y}} Left-handed — Overseas player
17 Louis Kimber {{cr199724|
21 Sam Evans (cricketer) >England}} {{Birth date and age12df=y}} Right-handed Right-arm Off spin >|
23 Lewis Hill (cricketer, born 1990)* >England}} {{Birth date and age10df=y}} Right-handed — Club captain
26 Rishi Patel {{cr199826Leg spin>leg break
6 Ben Green (cricketer) >England}} {{Birth date and age9df=y}} Right-handed Right-arm Fast bowling >Somerset County Cricket Club>Somerset
8 Ben Mike {{cr199824Fast bowling>fast-medium
16 Rehan Ahmed {{double-dagger}} {{cr200413Leg spin>leg break England central contract
19 Sam Wood {{cr200411Fast bowling>fast-medium
24 Wiaan Mulder {{double-dagger}} {{cr199819Fast bowling>fast-medium Overseas player
80 Liam Trevaskis {{cr199918Left-arm orthodox spin>Slow left-arm orthodox
88 Tom Scriven {{cr199818Fast bowling>fast-medium
7 Ben Cox {{cr19922|
28 Harry Swindells {{cr199921|
54 Peter Handscomb {{double-dagger}} {{cr199126Captain (cricket)>Captain (T20)
18 Matt Salisbury {{cr199318Fast bowling>fast-medium
20 Josh Hull (cricketer) >England}} {{Birth date and age8df=y}} Left-handed Left-arm Fast bowling >|
31 Chris Wright (cricketer)* >England}} {{Birth date and age7df=y}} Right-handed Right-arm Fast bowling >|
32 Scott Currie {{double-dagger}} {{cr20012Fast bowling>fast-medium On loan from Hampshire
49 Roman Walker {{cr20006Fast bowling>fast-medium

Former captains

{{See also|List of Leicestershire cricket captains}}

International players

{{col-begin}}{{col-4}}England {{col-4}} {{col-4}}Australia Bangladesh India New Zealand Pakistan {{col-4}}South Africa West Indies Zimbabwe {{col-end}}(File:Leicestershire CCC squad 2007.jpg|thumb|center|550px|Members of the current squad warming up)

Records

{{col-begin}}{{col-break}}Most first-class runs for Leicestershire Qualification – 17,000 runsWEB,weblink The Home of CricketArchive, Cricketarchive.com, 4 May 2013, {| class="wikitable"
Les Berry>| 30,143
Maurice Hallam>| 23,662
John King (cricketer, born 1871)>John King 22,618
Cecil Wood (English cricketer)>Cecil Wood 21,872
Ewart Astill >| 19,879
Norman Armstrong >| 19,001
Nigel Briers >| 18,726
Maurice Tompkin >| 18,590
Brian Davison (cricketer)>Brian Davison 18,537
Albert Knight (cricketer)>Albert Knight 18,142
Chris Balderstone >| 17,627
Samuel Coe >| 17,367
{{col-break}}Most first-class wickets for Leicestershire Qualification – 600 wicketsWEB,weblink The Home of CricketArchive, Cricketarchive.com, 4 May 2013, {| class="wikitable" style="background:#bdb76b;"! Player!!WicketsEwart Astill>| 2,131George Geary>| 1,759Terry Spencer>| 1,320Jack Walsh (cricketer)>Jack Walsh 1,127John King (cricketer, born 1871)>John King 1,100Haydon Smith >| 1,076Vic Jackson >| 930Jack Birkenshaw >| 908John Savage (cricketer)>John Savage 816(Gordon Parsons) | 809|William Odell (cricketer)>William Odell 650Jonathan Agnew >| 632{{col-end}}Most first-team winners medals for Leicestershire
  • J. C. Balderstone – 6

Batting

  • Highest team total: 756-4d v. Sussex, Hove, 2022
  • Highest home team total: 638-8d v. Worcestershire, Grace Road, 1996
  • Lowest team total: 25 v. Kent, Leicester, 1912
  • Highest total against: 761-6d by Essex, Chelmsford, 1990
  • Lowest total against: 24 by Glamorgan, Leicester, 1971
  • Highest individual score: 309 by HD Ackerman v. Glamorgan, Sophia Gardens, 2006.
  • Highest home individual score: 262 by Brad Hodge v. Durham, Grace Road, 2004
  • Highest partnership: 477 by C. N. Ackermann and P. W. A. Mulder v. Sussex, Hove, 2022
Best partnership for each wicket (county championship)
  • 1st – 390 B. Dudleston and J. F. Steele v. Derbyshire, Leicester, 1979
  • 2nd – 320 Hassan Azad and N. J. Dexter v. Gloucestershire, Leicester, 2019
  • 3rd – 316 W. Watson and A. Wharton v. Somerset, Taunton, 1961
  • 4th – 290 P. Willey and T. J. Boon v. Warwickshire, Leicester, 1984
  • 5th – 477 C. N. Ackermann and P. W. A. Mulder v. Sussex, Hove, 2022
  • 6th – 284 P. V. Simmons and P. A. Nixon v. Durham, Chester-le-Street, 1996
  • 7th – 219 J. D. R. Benson and P. Whitticase v. Hampshire, Bournemouth, 1991
  • 8th – 203 H. J Swindells and E. Barnes v. Somerset, Taunton, 2021
  • 9th – 160 R. T. Crawford and W. W. Odell v. Worcestershire, Leicester, 1902
  • 10th – 228 R. Illingworth and K. Higgs v. Northamptonshire, Leicester, 1977

Bowling

Fielding

  • Most dismissals in an innings: 7 by Neil Burns v. Somerset, Grace Road, 2001
  • Most dismissals in a match: 10 by Percy Corrall v. Sussex, Hove, 1936

Sub Academy

The Leicestershire Sub Academy is designed for young cricketers who have potential to play at the highest level. It is also called the EPP (Emerging Player Programme). Many players who are involved in this set up move on to the LCCC academy, where they will play matches against academies from other counties.

References

{{Reflist}}

Further reading

External links

{{commons category}} {{Leicestershire CCC}}{{Leicestershire County Cricket Club Squad}}{{English first-class cricket clubs}}{{Cricket in England}}{{Authority control}}

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