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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.
Snibston Colliery Ground was a cricket ground in Coalville,Leicestershire. The land for the cricket ground was originally set aside for the miners at Snibston Colliery. Snibston Colliery was used as an outground by Leicestershire following the Second World War,with the county first playing there against Glamorgan in 1957 County Championship. Leicestershire player there intermittently until 1982,playing eight first-class matches there,plus a single List A one-day match against Glamorgan in the 1970 John Player League. The loss of first-class cricket at Snibston Colliery coincided with a downturn in fortune of the colliery. Snibston Grange Cricket Club continued to play at and maintain the ground,with Coalville Town F.C. moving to part of the ground in 1995 and establishing their Owen Street Sports Ground there. The cricket club folded in 2013,leaving Coalville Town F.C. as the sole tenant of the site.
George Owen Dawkes was a first-class cricketer who played for Leicestershire between 1937 and 1939 and for Derbyshire between 1947 and 1961 as a wicket keeper and a lower-order right-handed batsman. During the 1949–50 season he toured India with a team of players making up a Commonwealth XI.
Ryan Logan Eagleson is a former Irish cricketer.
Paul Geoffrey Newman is an English former cricketer who played for Derbyshire County Cricket Club between 1980 and 1989.
John Richard Eyre is a former English cricketer who played first-class cricket for Derbyshire from 1963 to 1967.
Albert Brian Jackson is a former English cricketer. who played for Derbyshire from 1963 to 1968 and for MCC in 1967.
Ian William Hall is an English former first-class cricketer and professional footballer. He played cricket for Derbyshire between 1959 and 1972,and played football for Derby County F.C. from 1959 to 1962 and for Mansfield Town F.C. from 1962 to 1968.
George William Richardson is a former English cricketer who played first-class cricket for Derbyshire between 1959 and 1965.
James Metcalf Hutchinson was an English first-class cricketer who played more than 250 matches for Derbyshire County Cricket Club between 1920 and 1931. Until September 2018,when John Manners took the record,Hutchinson's unique claim to fame was that,of all first-class cricketers around the world,he was the longest-lived whose age had been incontestably established.
Stewart James Storey is a former English cricketer. He was an all-rounder,a right-handed middle-order batsman and right-arm medium pace bowler as well as being a fine slip fielder. He played for Surrey from 1960 to 1976,winning the County Championship with them in 1971,and subsequently appeared for Sussex in 1978. He was readily recognisable on the cricket field by his fair hair.
Garnet Morley Lee was an English cricketer who played first-class cricket for Nottinghamshire between 1910 and 1922 and for Derbyshire between 1925 and 1933. He scored nearly 15,000 runs in his first-class career.
John Martin Kelly was an English cricketer who played first-class cricket for Lancashire from 1947 to 1949 and for Derbyshire from 1950 to 1960.
James Horsley was an English cricketer who played first-class cricket for Nottinghamshire in 1913 and for Derbyshire from 1914 to 1925
David Alexander Burton is a first-class cricketer,who has played county cricket for Gloucesteshire,Middlesex and Northamptonshire.
Hubert Laurence Johnson was a West Indies-born cricketer who played first-class cricket for Derbyshire between 1949 and 1966. He scored over 14,000 runs for the club in the first-class game.
Keith Stevenson is a former English first-class cricketer who played for Derbyshire from 1974 to 1977 and for Hampshire from 1978 to 1984.
Frank Henry Vigar was an English cricketer who played first-class cricket for Essex County Cricket Club between 1938 and 1954. A right-handed batsman,and leg break bowler,Vigar served as an all-rounder with 8,858 runs at 26.28 and 241 wickets at 37.90. From his rained-off debut in 1938,Vigar went on to play 257 matches for his county. His greatest success came in the "golden summer" of 1947,where he scored 1,735 runs and took 64 wickets. A partnership with Peter Smith of 218 for the final wicket remains an Essex record.
David George Doughty played first-class cricket for Somerset in 17 matches in the 1963 and 1964 seasons. He also appeared in one one-day match in the Gillette Cup.
Thomas Jayes was an English first-class cricketer who played for Leicestershire between 1903 and 1911. He was born and died at Ratby,Leicestershire. Jayes was a right-arm fast bowler and a hard-hitting lower middle-order right-handed batsman;unusually for fast bowlers of the era when he played,he was also rated as a good fielder.