Leicestershire County Cricket Club

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Leicestershire County Cricket Club

One Day name	Leicestershire Foxes
Personnel
Captain	Lewis Hill
One Day captain	TBC Peter Handscomb (T20)
Coach	Alfonso Thomas
Overseas player(s)	Peter Handscomb Marcus Harris Wiaan Mulder
Chief executive	Sean Jarvis
Team information
Founded	25 February 1879
Home ground	Grace Road, Leicester
Capacity	6,000 cricket matches / 19,999 concerts
History
First-class debut	MCC in 1895 at Lord's
Championship wins	3
Pro40 wins	2
FP Trophy wins	0
One-Day Cup wins	1
Twenty20 Cup wins	3
Benson & Hedges Cup wins	3
Official website	LeicestershireCCC
First-class One-day T20

Leicestershire County Cricket Club is one of eighteen first-class county clubs within the domestic cricket structure of England and Wales. It represents the historic county of Leicestershire. It has also been representative of the county of Rutland. The club's limited overs team is called the Leicestershire Foxes. Founded in 1879, the club had minor county status until 1894, when it was promoted to first-class status pending its entry into the County Championship in 1895.^[1] Since then, Leicestershire have played in every top-level domestic cricket competition in England.

The club is based at Grace Road, Leicester, known as Uptonsteel County Ground. and have also played home games at Aylestone Road in Leicester, at Hinckley, Loughborough, Melton Mowbray, Ashby-de-la-Zouch, Coalville, Uppingham and Oakham inside the traditional county boundaries.

In limited overs cricket, the kit colours are red with black trim in the Royal London One Day Cup and black with red trim in the T20. The shirt sponsors are Oval Insurance Broking with Highcross Leicester (shopping centre) on the top reverse side of the shirt.

Leicestershire are in the second division of the County Championship and in the north group of the Royal London One Day Cup. They recently finished bottom of the County Championship for the sixth time since the introduction of two divisions. Their best showing in recent years has been in the Twenty20 Cup with the Foxes winning the trophy three times in eight years.