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HISTORY Joining the County Championship in the big expansion of the competition in 1895 , Leicestershire's first 70 years were largely spent in lower table mediocrity, with few notable exceptions. In 1953, the motivation of secretary-captain Charles Palmer lifted the side fleetingly to third place, but most of the rest of the 1950s was spent propping up the table, or thereabouts. Change came in the late 1950s with the recruitment of the charismatic , the former England and Surrey spinner who had galvanised Western Australia took the team to the unprecedented position of runners up in the Championship. Then his successor, Ray Illingworth , again from Yorkshire, instilled self-belief to the extent that the county took its first title in 1975 . CLUB HONOURS
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