Leicestershire Foxes Team: Squad, Results, Stats & Schedule

Leicestershire Foxes are the men's limited-overs side of Leicestershire County Cricket Club, founded in 1879. The Foxes name covers white-ball cricket, while the same county organisation also competes as Leicestershire in the County Championship.

The Foxes finished sixth in the six-team 2026 North Group with three wins, nine losses, 12 points and a -1.600 net run rate. Their victories came consecutively against Lancashire Lightning, Sussex Sharks and Yorkshire before six straight defeats closed the group campaign.

Ashton Turner led the 2026 batting with 327 runs and also took seven wickets. Nick Kelly followed with 243 runs, while Rehan Ahmed and captain Ben Green shared the team wicket lead with ten each; Turner's 327-run, seven-wicket return was the strongest combined contribution.

Leicestershire have won three men's domestic T20 titles: the inaugural 2004 Twenty20 Cup, another title in 2006 and their third in 2011. The club entered 2026 seeking trophy number four but did not reach the quarter-finals.

No. The 20 names form a season timeline assembled from official match squads, loans, short contracts and completed appearances. They were not all available at the same time, and selection does not prove entry into a scorecard.

Ben Green was the captain named in the opening official squad. Later layers added Joey Evison on loan, Sheridon Gumbs on a one-month contract and Ruan de Swardt for the final three Blast matches.

The page therefore preserves the changing group instead of repeating a preseason list. It also avoids adding players from the wider county squad when the club explicitly kept them outside the Blast campaign.

Leicestershire initially announced Keshav Maharaj for the 2026 Blast, but the club and player later ended that agreement because of Cricket South Africa's red-ball workload constraints. Ajaz Patel signed as his replacement across formats.

Ajaz was then rested throughout the Blast. The opening match used Ashton Turner and Nick Kelly as the two available overseas players, while Ruan de Swardt joined for the final three matches.

This is why an old signing announcement cannot stand in for a completed-season roster. Contract replacement, format-specific rest and late cover are separate status changes and need separate evidence.

Only temporarily. Leicestershire opened with three losses, then beat Lancashire, Sussex and Yorkshire in succession to reach 3–3 at the halfway point.

They lost all six matches after the break and finished 3–9. Four of those closing defeats came by 41 runs or more, or with at least 30 balls remaining, so the slide was not confined to one narrow result.

The sequence matters more than a generic 'inconsistent season' label: the Foxes moved from 0–3 to 3–3 and then 3–9, with the entire points total earned in one three-match block.

They share the same team-high wicket total, but not the same opportunity. Rehan reached ten wickets in six matches; captain Ben Green reached ten across all 12.

Rehan's best was 3/28 in the win over Yorkshire, while Green supplied overs throughout the campaign and added 144 runs. Raw wicket equality therefore hides different availability and team roles.

The page keeps them as joint leaders because the completed tournament statistics give each bowler ten wickets. Any stronger claim about who was the 'better' bowler would require rate, phase, opposition and match-state analysis rather than simply breaking the tie by preference.

Yes. Leicestershire lost the home crossover to Worcestershire by 18 runs and won the away crossover at Sussex by four wickets. Both results count in the official 12-match North Group table line.

The Sussex win supplied four of Leicestershire's 12 points. Removing both crossover matches would create a two-win, eight-loss subset, but that is not the competition record used for position or qualification.

A group label identifies the table in which the county is ranked; it does not mean every opponent belongs to that group under the 2026 three-group format.