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| One Day name | Leicestershire Foxes | |||
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| Personnel | ||||
| Captain | TBC | |||
| Coach | Alfonso Thomas | |||
| Overseas player(s) | Peter Handscomb | |||
| 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 | |||
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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.[1] Since then, Leicestershire have played in every top-level domestic cricket competition in England.
The club is based at Grace Road in Leicester, known as The Uptonsteel County Ground for sponsorship reasons, and has also played home games at Aylestone Road in Leicester, at Hinckley, Loughborough, Melton Mowbray, Ashby-de-la-Zouch, Coalville and most recently Kibworth inside the traditional county boundaries of Leicestershire, and at Oakham, in Rutland.
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 T20 Blast. Their best performances in recent years have come in one day cricket, winning the T20 Cup three times in eight years between 2004-11, and the One Day Cup in 2023.