Coad, 25, happy to step up as an elder statesman

By Paul Edwards

Young at heart; long on experience: Ben Coad is revelling in his role at Yorkshire
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IT MAY seem only a season or so since Ben Coad broke into Yorkshire’s first team but the 25-year-old is already keenly aware of his responsibility to bring on the county’s next generation of quicker bowlers.
The departures of Ryan Sidebottom, Jack Brooks and Liam Plunkett have left Coad as almost a senior player at Headingley and head coach Andrew Gale has reminded him that his job description extends to helping seamers like Matthew Waite ...

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