Durham Cricket Club Delayed Accounts

If you go onto The Companies House website there is the following message for Durham Cricket C.I.C.

Ian Botham is the Chairman of Durham Cricket. If there's a rain break at Old Trafford I look forward to someonee (maybe Nasser Hussain, he's expendable) quizing Sir Ian on his duties under the Companies Act.

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County Championship Salary Cap

This is post about salaries in county cricket. The first class counties are subject to a cap and a collar on amounts paid in wages to cricketers. They must pay above a collar, currently £0.75m, and below a cap, currently £2m. There is an agreement for both the collar and the cap to increase over the next funding round to 2024. In 2024 the collar will be £1.5m and the cap £2.5m What is less clear is what payments count towards the cap and collar. I assume employers' national insurance (a 13% tax on wages) isn't included. Similarly I assume payments to coaching staff don't count towards the cap as if they did, Somerset, Lancashire and Yorkshire would all be over the current £2m cap. I've gone through the accounts of the first class counties to see what, if any, disclosure, they include on players' wages. What gets disclosed varies enormously, quite a lot for some counties, nothing for others. Additionally there is a possibility the informatio...

Mo Bobat and County Cricket

Cricinfo has this interview with ECB "Performance Director" Mo Bobat. Bobat makes an interesting claim about county cricket, "Take something like county batting average. We know that a county batting average does not significantly predict an international batting average, so a lot of the conventional things that are looked at as being indicators of success - they don't really stand true in a predictive sense." And later in the article there is a graph, showing county averages plotted against test averages for 13 English test batsmen. This is reproduced below. better than random? raw data suggests no meaningful link between championship and test averages 20 25 30 35 40 45 50 55 60 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 Test County Championship Sam Curran England players' batting averages...

English County Cricket Finance: 2018 Bentley Forbes Rankings

I have gone through the most recent financial statements for the English first class counties, made an estimate of the financial strength of each and given them a Bentley Forbes Consulting ( TM ) financial sustainability ranking. The overall table looks like this. County Profit Assets Ranking Position Essex 4 4 4 1 Surrey 1 7 4 1 Nottinghamshire 5 5 5 3 Somerset 2 8 5 3 Derbyshire 8 3 5 5 Leicestshire 6 6 6 6 Sussex 15 1 8 7 Middlesex 14 2 8 7 Kent 9 9 9 9 Worcestshire 3 15 9 10 Gloucestshire 7 12 9.5 11 Northamptonshire 11 13 12 12 Glamorgan 16 10 13 13 Durham 12 14...

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