The prestigious Bentley Forbes Consulting county cricket financial rankings for 2021 are out now! Rankings for 2020 are:  here  & if this is your sort of thing you can go all the way back to  2016 . I've ranked the 17 eligible counties (no Hampshire as they are part of Rod Bransgrove's business interests) by the patented* Bentley Forbes  financial strength algorithm**, a mixture of profitability and balance sheet resilience and given a brief (sometimes very brief) write up to each county.  But first a few general comments. Cricket isn't like championship football or seemingly premier league rugby, loss making and dependent on indulgent and / or dubious owners.    All 18 first class counties came through covid intact and in 2021 the 17 counties in the rankings made an aggregate net profit of just less than £7m.    That's not to say that everything is perfect, Surrey and Lancashire, made £5.2m of the total profits of £7m and 5 counties were loss making in 2021.  Of th

The 15 counties that are members' organisations submit returns to the FCA (Well they are supposed to, a bit more on that below) which include the number of members.  The figures for 2021 are as follows: County   Members Derbyshire   871 Essex*   4348 Glamorgan   2180 Gloucester   3590 Kent   1570 Lancashire   3460 Leicestershire   880 Middlesex   7312 Nottinghamshire   5475 Somerset   6713 Sussex   1671 Surrey   17115 Warwickshire*   4418 Worcestershire   1787 Yorkshire   3408     64798     The asterix next to Warwickshire and Essex is because those counties haven't managed to file their 2021 annual returns, it's only a legal requirement chaps, no need to rush.  In the absence of 2021 data, I've used 2019 figures.  So roughly 65,000 county members, perhaps a few less.   The data section of the excellent  Bythesightscreen blog  includes data on county membership numbers going back as far as 2005.  It shows memberships as 71,000 for 2