Surrey top new Financial Performance Index - but expansion plans could see Hampshire close gap
16.07.25, 23:19 Updated 17.07.25, 09:12
The gap between the haves and have-nots in English cricket is as wide as it has ever been - and looks certain to get bigger as the cash from private investment in the Hundred floods in.
So where do Hampshire sit in the Leonard Curtis Financial Performance Index which grades the economic health and the playing prospects of the 18 first class counties for the first time?
And could the arrival of GMR and potential expansion plans for the club's Utilita Bowl home supercharge Hampshire's financial fortunes.
With Surrey, Lancashire and Warwickshire making up 44% of the £306.1m combined annual revenue of all the counties, the report ranked Hampshire second in the table.
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