Benefit OmniScriptum Benefit Season: Cricket, County cricket, Colin McCool, Somerset County Cricket Club, House of Lords, Inland Revenue, County cap Paperback

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. A benefit season is a method of financially rewarding professional cricketers that is used by English county cricket teams to compensate long serving players. The system originated in the 19th century to help out professional cricketers who were paid low wages and generally couldn't play professional cricket much beyond the age of forty. Early "benefits" typically comprised the gate receipts of a designated match. Nowadays, a benefit season comprises a sequence of events such as dinners and auctions of memorabilia over the course of the summer cricket season or the whole year in which the relevant cricket season falls.