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County Cricket 2026

TheRey said:
Wonder if hed have raised that bat if he'd made it the full over?
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Dunno if its just me, and as folks know I love my county cricket and cricket in general. But I just can't seem to get excited about the start of the season, at all. Im actually more looking forward to the start of the speedway season. I think im so done with Bazball, T20 leagues, the whole lot, I just dont have that excitement this year.



I'm sure I'll still be spitting feathers when we're 30/3 on the first morning, mind
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Compete opposite

Love test cricket, best sport in the world

County cricket is magic

People who use the phrase Bazball seem to get the angriest, it’s completely meaningless , a media invention
 

Raymondo said:
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Huge loss.

Some very strange goings on at the start of this domestic season, so many clubs having their preparation massively disrupted.

Sussex with their finances, Hampshire with their overseas, Glamorgan and now Leicestershire losing key players suddenly and unexpectedly.

I loved Leicestershire’s success story last year, they deserve so much to have a good run, but it’s looking like an incredibly difficult task lies ahead of them to maintain Division One status.
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I was going to reply that they will be massively helped by Sussex’s points deduction and then I noticed that they’d only been docked 12 points. :lol: What a f***ing joke that is when you consider what the ECB did to Durham.
 
𝗝𝗔𝗞𝗘 𝗜𝗦 𝗔 𝗙𝗢𝗫 🦊

A Red-Ball star with Ashes pedigree, and a hunger to make his mark in county cricket - Jake Weatherald arrives at Uptonsteel Grace Road ready to light up the Rothesay County Championship.

Welcome to the Foxes family, Jake.

𝗥𝗘𝗔𝗗: foxeslccc.com/Jake-Signs
 
GordonMuchallNo1Fan said:
𝗝𝗔𝗞𝗘 𝗜𝗦 𝗔 𝗙𝗢𝗫 🦊

A Red-Ball star with Ashes pedigree, and a hunger to make his mark in county cricket - Jake Weatherald arrives at Uptonsteel Grace Road ready to light up the Rothesay County Championship.

Welcome to the Foxes family, Jake.

𝗥𝗘𝗔𝗗: foxeslccc.com/Jake-Signs
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Think that’s a good signing that, obviously needed to replace Handscomb.

Lots of counties seem to be doing business very late in the proceedings, some have been forced (this one, Yusuf, etc) but I can never remember a season where so many clubs entered the month of March with a lot still up in the air regarding signings.
 
Worcestershire have lost Swanepoel too.

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I imagine both counties will fill the void(s) at some stage, but nonetheless it’s a big blow for two of Durham’s supposed ‘competition’ for promotion.
 
Raymondo said:
Think that’s a good signing that, obviously needed to replace Handscomb.

Lots of counties seem to be doing business very late in the proceedings, some have been forced (this one, Yusuf, etc) but I can never remember a season where so many clubs entered the month of March with a lot still up in the air regarding signings.
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In reality they can't a lot of them early like they used or for anything other than short term contracts.
Mitchell Perry the WA left armer pulled out of his overseas stint at Lancs now.
 
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Middlesex in disarray too, we really ought to do well this season given all the turmoil going on around the counties.
 
Turner the Cat said:
Cheers. Overall increase is good to see. I posted before that Surrey hit over 80,000 in 2025 so big increase for them.
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It’s interesting data in both the positive and negative sense.

The increases are good to see and a reminder (which I don’t think we need on here) that the county championship is a thing in its own right that people do watch. The one man and his dog thing is a myth. I don’t know how many days play you get, probably 20 out of the nominal 28, so that’s 3000 a day on average at Surrey in 2024, and 4000 last year.

That’s a number that obliterates anything you get in first class cricket anywhere else, even at the rightly lauded in other ways Sheffield Shield. We don’t all have the benefits Surrey have. But we can surely all learn something from that example.

But even with Surrey, you are still only talking decent National League attendance. And then there’s Northants and Leicester. At around 200 a day. That’s a huge difference. And a gate you’d struggle to sustain Northern League at. It’s a difficult circle to square. I love county cricket. I’m always pleased to be reminded that I’m not a complete freak in that respect. But it’s still a minority interest that relies heavily on the other areas of the game that are more popular to sustain it. And the likes of Northants really are basket cases.
 
Fleagle said:
It’s interesting data in both the positive and negative sense.

The increases are good to see and a reminder (which I don’t think we need on here) that the county championship is a thing in its own right that people do watch. The one man and his dog thing is a myth. I don’t know how many days play you get, probably 20 out of the nominal 28, so that’s 3000 a day on average at Surrey in 2024, and 4000 last year.

That’s a number that obliterates anything you get in first class cricket anywhere else, even at the rightly lauded in other ways Sheffield Shield. We don’t all have the benefits Surrey have. But we can surely all learn something from that example.

But even with Surrey, you are still only talking decent National League attendance. And then there’s Northants and Leicester. At around 200 a day. That’s a huge difference. And a gate you’d struggle to sustain Northern League at. It’s a difficult circle to square. I love county cricket. I’m always pleased to be reminded that I’m not a complete freak in that respect. But it’s still a minority interest that relies heavily on the other areas of the game that are more popular to sustain it. And the likes of Northants really are basket cases.
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I'd argue that England Internationals tv and gate receipts and County Championship sustain each other. The CC is the feeder to the National team with the resulting International team raising the revenue to sustain the CC.Without a CC there's no England team.
The Hundred isn't self-sustainable given the ludicrously exorbitant salaries incurred.
U-tube following probably gives a better guide to CC interest rather than actual attendances.
Northants,to a degree, have always been a basket case but both Leicestershire and Derbyshire have turned both finance and playing results around through good management.
 
Talksport have done a county preview pod, Harmy and George Dobell speak excellently on our behalf towards the end of the show. Well worth a listen.
 
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