Make a resolution to support your county

AS we say goodbye to what for many has been a quite awful year, it’s time to look forward to a much brighter 2021.

We might be in the dead of winter and sadly at the height of the second wave of the Covid-19 pandemic, but before we know it, in a couple of months’ time, spring will be in the air, with the virus hopefully beginning to die out.

By that time, the start of the domestic cricket season will be within sight and, fingers crossed, with crowds permitted.

In spite of a vast improvement on and off the field over the past five or so years, financially it has been a struggle for Leicestershire in that time, largely down to the fact that the small, non-Test match counties don’t get the help and backing from the England and Wales Cricket Board that the bigger Test match counties do.

I therefore urge all cricket followers in the county to consider taking out a membership in 2021, as the club needs all the support it can get.

With the way they are shaping up with several new signings, an ambitious new board and the continued leadership of head coach Paul Nixon, you won’t be disappointed.

I often speak to cricket lovers who watch Test matches/one-day internationals and 20/20 on TV but have rarely if ever attended a county game, along with others who have given up their memberships over the past decade or so.

With the help of the Leicestershire public, I have no doubt that the most successful era of the club is not too far away.

So to all you cricket lovers out there who are not members at Grace Road, put that county membership on your 2021 new year’s resolution list.

Oliver Hawke,

Great Glen