I have pulled together a spreadsheet summarising income and costs for the 18 first class counties.  Data is taken from the most recent financial statements, with the exception of Surrey who have just filed their financial statements for the period to 31 January 2017, I'll update this post once I have a copy of these Surrey accounts. Middlesex don't seemed to have filed accounts for the period to 31 December 2016, although I think these are now overdue. A few points on the aggregate figures. The 18 first class counties made a combined loss before tax for the period of £2.6m.  Viewed in isolation this doesn't look too bad but it includes a Surrey profit of £3m.  Also most counties have taken on a significant amount of debt in the last decade.  For the counties making a loss / small profit the issue is are they able to pay off the debt as it falls due.  A particularly pertinent question for Durham, Glamorgan (both of whom have almost gone belly up in the last two year

I am currently writing a book about English and West Indian cricket in the 1930s.  As a part of that I collated some statistics from Cricketarchive on test matches played by England from December 1932 to March 1935.  You can click on the link below to see the spreadsheet and if you download you should get the "proper" excel version. Amateur vs Professional December 1932 - March 1935 Overall it was a successful period for the England side: winning 10 games, drawing 7 and losing 5, but it is noticeable that the record for the first 13 tests when Douglas Jardine was captain (he actually missed the final game of the 1933 West Indies series but was captain again for tour of India) the record is won 8, drawn 4 and lost 1.  It always surprises me how much difference a good "leader" makes to performance, or am I just ascribing a human face to noisy statistics? England selected 41 different players over the 22 matches, evidence of selectoral inconsistency and