Few clubs are in as fortunate financial position as Bath. By the same token, even fewer use their resources to benefit the community and the world of cricket at large, as shrewdly as the West Country Premier League side.
Last year’s ECB Cup winners – they defeated Nottingham’s Sandiacre Cricket Club by 81 runs in the final at Wormsley back in September – are fortunate to be situated on the site of a car park which brings the club in between £400,000 and £500,000 on an annual basis. A recent sale of land has also netted them the best part of £2m.