Lancashire are going through an inside revolt on the eve of the brand new County Championship season, with a insurgent group fronted by membership legends David Lloyd and Paul Allott expressing grave considerations with the board’s operating of the membership.
Lloyd – popularly generally known as Bumble – and Allott, each ex-England internationals who’ve performed for Lancashire and held positions on the teaching workers at Emirates Previous Trafford, say they’ve been in search of face-to-face discussions on the route through which their membership is heading since final November, however have been ignored.
Their considerations have led to a second Particular Common Assembly within the house of 48 hours being known as for Wednesday.
One of many main gripes of a collective that features greater than two-thirds of Lancashire’s 29 vice-presidents is that it has misplaced its id as a cricket membership. And they’re involved that it’ll quickly lose its standing as a members’ membership too.
Membership legend David Lloyd has spoken out about his considerations with the operating of Lancashire
The target of their SGM is to place on-field issues again on the centre of a enterprise led by interim chair Dame Sarah Storey and chief govt Daniel Gidney, with a decision to extend the variety of former workers on the membership’s board to 4, believing the present cap of two severely restricts its cricket experience.
Lancashire’s solely present ex-employee on the board is John Abrahams, though the membership argue that president-elect Clive Lloyd – whose nomination wants ratifying on the AGM in Could – represents a second.
Nevertheless, in what’s a tangled off-field mess simply 10 days earlier than the beginning of the 2026 season, Every day Mail Sport understands that West Indies nice Lloyd has thrown his help behind Lloyd and Allott.
Monday’s SGM, which noticed the membership of round 6,000 contacted by electronic mail, included seven resolutions that included additional empowering the present board and subsequently circumventing among the present democratic rights of members together with the power of present board members to hunt re-election unchallenged.
One additionally seeks to extend the minimal variety of member signatures to safe an SGM from its present stage of 100 to 250.
England and Lancashire legend Jimmy Anderson is now captain at Emirates Previous Trafford
Lancashire insiders say that the calling of SGMs has been a expensive and time-consuming enterprise. Certainly, discontent amongst the membership resulted in two being known as final yr.
Final season, following relegation in 2024, was tumultuous, with coach Dale Benkenstein eliminated midway via and captain Keaton Jennings stepping down.
Stalwarts Steven Croft and Jimmy Anderson have since been appointed in these roles, however a sense stays that off-field initiatives over latest years, equivalent to the 2 on-site resorts in Manchester, the convention and occasions enterprise and internet hosting of live shows, have contributed to focus has been elsewhere.
Final yr, Lloyd wrote in Every day Mail Sport: ‘There’s a feeling, from each inside and out of doors the membership, that cricket isn’t the primary precedence. Relatively the stability sheet is. That may be a actual concern. We should get again to being a cricket membership.’
Lancashire have been contacted for remark.
