Oakham is the county town of Rutland in the East Midlands of England, located 25 miles (40.2 km) east of Leicester, 28 miles (45.1 km) south-east of Nottingham and 23 miles (37.0 km) west of Peterborough. Its population is 10,922, as of the 2011 census.
The England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB) is the governing body of cricket in England and Wales. It was created on 1 January 1997 combining the roles of the Test and County Cricket Board, the National Cricket Association and the Cricket Council. Like many sports-governing bodies in the United Kingdom it is a company limited by guarantee, a legal status which enables it to concentrate on maximising its funding of the sport rather than making a return for investors. The ECB's head offices are at Lord's in London. Although the organisation is the England and Wales Cricket Board, it is referred to as the ECB not the EWCB as a result of a decision taken in the run-up to the launch of ECB in January 1997 by those from within the game given the task of overseeing the transition from the previous bodies from which ECB was formed.
List A cricket is a classification of the limited-overs (one-day) form of the sport of cricket. List A cricket includes One Day International (ODI) matches and various domestic competitions in which the number of overs in an innings per team ranges from forty to sixty, as well as some international matches involving nations who have not achieved official ODI status. Together with first-class and Twenty20 cricket, List A is one of the three major forms of cricket recognised by the International Cricket Council (ICC).
The Minor Counties are the cricketing counties of England and Wales that are not afforded first-class status. The game is administered by the Minor Counties Cricket Association which comes under the England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB). There are currently twenty teams in minor county cricket: nineteen representing historic counties of England, plus the Wales Minor Counties Cricket Club. Of the thirty-nine historic counties of England, seventeen have a first class county cricket team, nineteen have a minor county team, while Huntingdonshire, Rutland, and Westmorland have neither, due to their small population.
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. Since then, Leicestershire have played in every top-level domestic cricket competition in England.
Grace Road, known for sponsorship reasons as the Fischer County Ground, Grace Road, is a cricket ground in Leicester, England. It is the home ground and administrative base for Leicestershire County Cricket Club.
Barwell Football Club is a football club based in Barwell, near Hinckley in Leicestershire. They are currently members of the Southern League Premier Division Central and play at Kirkby Road.
Cricket may not have reached the English counties of Leicestershire and Rutland until the 18th century. A notice in the Leicester Journal dated 17 August 1776 is the earliest known mention of cricket in the area. A few years later, a Leicestershire & Rutland Cricket Club was taking part in important matches. Note that in some contemporary reports the club is called simply Leicester but the personnel involved are the same whichever title is used.
The War Memorial Athletic Ground, often referred to as simply the War Memorial Ground, is a sports ground in the Amblecote region of Stourbridge, West Midlands, England. It plays host to both cricket and football, being the home of Stourbridge Cricket Club and Stourbridge Football Club.
Leicestershire Fire and Rescue Service is the fire and rescue service which covers Leicestershire and Rutland, including the unitary authority of Leicester.
The Leicestershire and Rutland Cricket League is the top level of competition for recreational club cricket in Leicestershire and Rutland, England, and since 2002 has been a designated ECB Premier League.
The 2001 Cheltenham and Gloucester Trophy was the first Cheltenham & Gloucester Trophy following its change of name from the NatWest Trophy. It was an English limited overs county cricket tournament which was held between 1 May and 1 September 2001. The tournament was won by Somerset County Cricket Club who defeated Leicestershire County Cricket Club by 41 runs in the final at Lord's.
Ashley Spencer Wright is an English cricketer. Wright played as a right-handed batsman who bowled right-arm medium-pace. He later went on to represent the Guernsey cricket team.
The Park was a cricket ground situated in the grounds of the mansion of George Finch, 9th Earl of Winchilsea at Burley-on-the-Hill in Rutland.
Richard Dandy is a former English cricketer. Dandy was a right-handed batsman. He was born at Birmingham, Warwickshire.
Matthew Robin Trevor is an English cricketer. Trevor is a right-handed batsman who bowls right-arm fast-medium. He was born in Leicester, Leicestershire.
Paul Gavin Breedon Fisher is an English cricketer. Fisher is a right-handed batsman who bowls slow left-arm orthodox. He was born in Leicester, Leicestershire.
The Pakistan cricket team toured England in May 2019 to play five One Day Internationals (ODIs) and one Twenty20 International (T20I) match ahead of the 2019 Cricket World Cup. The fixtures were part of both teams' preparation for the tournament. Three matches were played against English county sides as part of the tour, with 50-over matches played against Kent and Northants, and a Twenty20 match played against Leicestershire.
