ABSTRACT
This essay is prompted by events at Leicestershire County Cricket Club during the last decade, but principally the period 2010–11. It takes the form of a brief history of the club, culminating in a chronology of recent political upheavals there; this is followed by the drawing out of the political and economic implications of that chronology, with particular reference to the theme of this special issue — the impact upon cricket of the currently thriving Twenty20 format. Declaring an interest, I am a member of Leicestershire CCC, but I have, and intend to imply, no strong opinion about recent goings-on at the club; my sole purpose is to explore what these events might mean for the club and for clubs like it. I begin with some brief history of Leicestershire as a county cricket club.
