Notts enjoy healthy profit

Nottinghamshire have benefited from their run in last season's Twenty20 tournament when they finished as runners-up, plus Trent Bridge hosting finals day, by recording a healthy pre-tax profit of £140,998.

The club had strong attendances at all home Twenty20 group matches, more than 12,000 watching the quarter-final against Nottinghamshire.

Richard Tennant, the finance director, said: "Twenty20 is the one competition where success results in meaningful incremental income, and the outstanding performance of the team in the competition manifested itself in a 59 per cent increase in match receipts compared with 2005."

On the back of lifting the County Championship and staging of an Ashes Test in 2005, membership subscriptions also showed a healthy increase of 13 per cent. "The milestone of achieving a record number of 1,160 Junior members was also extremely significant," Tennant added.

Nottinghamshire recently announced proposals for an £8.2million redevelopment plan, which will include building a new stand on the Bridgford Road side of the ground and the installation of permanent floodlights, increasing capacity to 17,500.