Andy Afford and Richard Kenyon have been appointed as Directors of Trent Rockets Ltd.

A member of the General Committee since March 2025, Afford took 468 First-Class wickets across 13 summers with Notts, winning the 1987 County Championship and 1989 Benson & Hedges Cup.

Since retiring as a player, he has taken up senior editorial roles across the magazine industry and is now Managing Director of the Stencil creative agency. He also serves as Nottinghamshire’s EDI lead on the General Committee.

Appointed Chief Executive of Nottinghamshire in December 2025, Kenyon joined the club after over a decade at Everton FC.

During his time with Everton, he served in leadership roles including Chief Commercial & Communications Officer and Chief Executive Officer of Everton in the Community, and played an instrumental role in delivering the club’s new stadium at Bramley-Moore Dock.

The pair join Jonathan Goldstein (Chair of Trent Rockets), Andy Hunt (Chair of Nottinghamshire CCC), John Knox (Chair of Cricket NSW and partner at Ares Management), Fraser Montgomery (Treasurer of Nottinghamshire CCC) and Joe Stelzer (Chief Risk Officer at Cain) on Trent Rockets’ board.

The General Committee of Nottinghamshire County Cricket Club routinely reviews its sub-groups and working groups following each AGM. 

The 2026 review included the directorships of Trent Rockets Ltd, and, as a result of that, from 16 March Kenyon and Afford join Hunt and Montgomery as directors of the Rockets.

Mick Newell and Lisa Pursehouse have stood down from their roles as Directors, but both retain their executive roles with Trent Rockets as Director of Cricket and Chief Executive respectively.

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