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unusual facts about Leicestershire County Cricket Club


Dave Podmore

Podmore began his career with Leicestershire, and he is married to Jackie Podmore,a lap-dancer.


Alan Armitage

In that same season he made two first-class appearances for the university, against the Free Foresters and Leicestershire.

Albert Howcroft

His final first-class game was against Leicestershire when Ernest Needham and Leonard Oliver both scored first-innings centuries for a Derbyshire victory.

Fraser Watts

Formerly a seam bowler, he once removed Dan Marsh twice during a six wicket haul against Leicestershire CCC whilst playing for Loughborough University; however he has since failed to get a bowl for any of his club sides in Scotland.

Gareth White

White represented Leicestershire Second XI in two fixtures in 1997, against Northamptonshire Second XI at Grace Road in August and against Lancashire Second XI at Aigburth in September.

Hartley Lobban

After two rather unsuccessful outings against Leicestershire and Nottinghamshire, Lobban returned to form in the last match of the season, taking a career-best 6-51 against Glamorgan; he and Reg Perks (4-59) bowled unchanged throughout the first innings.

Henry Jelf

His brother, Wilfrid, three years Henry's junior, was born in Canada and appeared for Leicestershire during the 1911 season.

Hit the ball twice

An example of the dismissal occurred in 1906 when John King, playing for Leicestershire against Surrey at The Oval tried to score a run after playing the ball twice to avoid getting bowled.

Ron Saggers with the Australian cricket team in England in 1948

Tallon was then rested and Saggers took his place for the next county match against Leicestershire.

Sir Anthony Mather-Jackson, 6th Baronet

He next played a full season in the 1922 season, scoring two half-centuries, including a career-best 75 against Leicestershire when with Wilfred Carter made a 182 eighth-wicket partnership, a record for the county which still stands today.

Spa Ground

Gloucestershire played first-class matches at the ground from 1882 to 1923, playing a total of 56 first-class matches there, the last of which saw them play Leicestershire in the 1923 County Championship.

Sri Lankan cricket team in England in 1979

Sri Lanka also played a 55-over one-day match against Leicestershire County Cricket Club, which Leicestershire won by 4 wickets; a 2-day match against Oxford University, which Sri Lanka won by an innings and 86 runs; and 3-day international matches against Ireland in Eglinton and against Scotland in Glasgow, both drawn.


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