International cricket returns to Taunton in 2017 too, with a men’s T20 international against South Africa and the Women’s World Cup, while the County Ground is also down as a host venue for the 2019 men’s World Cup.Īs the big beasts of county cricket, with an annual revenue of around £32m and seven years of profit, it is easy to see why Surrey feel there is little need for a new T20 tournament. The club boast 6,000 members and have reported a £600,000 profit for 2016 after selling out their entire Twenty20 home schedule and seeing their new pavilion deliver increased commercial returns. Somerset appear the model non-Test county. As tenants at Lord’s, the club have not, unlike others, been faced with the cost of upgrading facilities and thus they are debt-free, although the new T20 could see costs increase if they have to play more cricket at outgrounds while it is taking place.
With the title has come new commercial partners, the most eye-catching of which being Nike as official kit suppliers. The champions turned a loss of £284,000 in 2015 into a pre-tax profit of £117,000 last year thanks to a reduction in operating costs and the receipt of prize money. £60m has been invested in the ground in the past nine years, the latest redevelopments seeing the club’s debt set to rise to over £25m. The joke around the club for a long time was that paving over the ground to provide parking for the other Old Trafford would be more profitable than hosting matches and it is non-cricket activity – chiefly conferences and music concerts – that has been the biggest plus, bringing in £3.7m of sales. The Red Rose county have reported an operating profit of £1.2m for 2016, a 60% increase on the year before. Nevertheless, they are actively supportive of the ECB’s new Twenty20 tournament. Their assets are around £100m and debts of £10m are considered manageable. The club, who stayed in Division One through Durham’s enforced relegation, are a limited company and have diversified of late with a new hotel and the staging of music concerts, as well as a golf course that opens this year. Set to report a modest profit of £50,0 having hosted two England internationals but also seen two Twenty20 fixtures washed out.
Their chairman, John Faragher, is a vocal opponent of the ECB’s new Twenty20 tournament but says he will be guided by the members. There are plans being worked on at present to take one home match to the London Stadium as a possible dry run for the 2019 World Cup. Debt-free at present and one of the counties for which Twenty20 cricket – in its current form – is working well, recording a small profit last year from a £5m turnover and having seen phase one of an apartment block project on their land recently completed.
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