The 2022 Bentley Forbes Consulting rankings for financial stability of English county cricket clubs has now been completed.  Since their inception in 2018 the rankings and the highly complex* financial algorithm** behind them has provided a definitive insight into the financial position of 17 of the 18 English first class cricket counties***. The 2021 rankings are  here  and the first set of rankings, which includes a bit more detail on how on the calculations,  here .  In summary the 2022 accounts for each county****  are used to rank, profit, (based on an average of profitability for the last three years), and balance sheet strength.  The overall balance sheet measure  is a blend of three different measures: liabilities compared to assets that can easily be converted to cash, liabilities compared to total assets and liabilities falling due in the next five years compared to total assets.  From the profit and balance sheet rankings I then co...