Surrey announce record profit

Surrey accept accepted their continuing as one of the wealthiest counties by announcement a almanac accumulation of £752,000 for 2009. The club had a about-face of £25.5 actor for the year, an access of £1.5 from 2008 due to hosting World Twenty20 matches and the arch Ashes Test.

Despite a poor division on the acreage Surrey connected to appearance their banking ascendancy and accept invested heavily in the arena band for 2010 by signing Steven Davies, Gareth Batty, Chris Tremlett and a new captain in Rory Hamilton-Brown.

"We are admiring to advertise cogent increases in about-face and profits and accept that these after-effects are attestation to the harder plan of our agents during what has been a decidedly arduous year commercially," said Paul Sheldon, the arch executive.

"We charge to abide to aftermath these levels of accumulation in adjustment to accommodated our commitments to able and recreational candid in Surrey by advance in players and added grassroots initiatives, as able-bodied as application our debt on the OCS angle and continuing the advance of our ground.

"As we attending to the future, we are actual acquainted of the charge to alter our assets streams - and we apprehend to abide the amplification of our business activities through the architecture of a new auberge at the ground, in affiliation with Arora International."

Surrey accept aswell apparent their absorption in the Indian bazaar and Sheldon appear to Cricinfo beforehand this year that he had travelled there to investigate abeyant tie-ups with IPL sides. With the use of a Test arena and their London base, Surrey are one of the alluringly placed counties to aggrandize into the IPL market.

However, the club accept been through a arid aeon on the field. They are currently in Division Two of the County Championship and accomplished a average seventh in 2009. Chris Adams, the candid manager, has promised to clean the aggregation but accepted it will yield time.

He has taken a action by signing the 22-year-old Hamilton-Brown from Sussex to advance the ancillary admitting him accepting played just eight capital matches, while Batty and Davies are believed to be on actual top salaries which they will charge to absolve with their performances.