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Yorkshire sign Travis Head for second half of 2016

21 February 2016 0 comments

BIG Bash star Travis Head will spend the second half of the 2016 season at Yorkshire after signing a deal with the county champions. Head, 22, scored 299 runs for…

Don’t Bash Blast, franchise system won’t work for us

20 February 2016 0 comments

…There are 48 counties in England, 45 counting North Yorkshire, West Yorkshire, East Riding of Yorkshire and South Yorkshire as one. That means over half do not have first-class cricket….

Where are they now? Surrey – County Champions 2002

16 February 2016 0 comments

…before Yorkshire interrupted their winning run in 2001 but the south Londoners returned to top form in 2002. Brown, in his benefit year, scored 1,211 runs in the Championship to…

Tom Fell interview

14 February 2016 0 comments

…in the top division to do so. Only Yorkshire’s Jonny Bairstow and Sussex’s Ben Brown scored more hundreds than Fell’s three. Of those, Fell’s 114 against eventual champions Yorkshire in…

Joe Root has strength fused with tranquility

13 February 2016 0 comments

…time I saw him bat. It was for Yorkshire against Nottinghamshire at Trent Bridge in 2011. He was 20 years old and it was only his sixth game in the…

Anthony McGrath named Essex assistant coach

12 February 2016 0 comments

ANTHONY McGrath has left Yorkshire to join Essex as assistant coach and admitted it was “strange” to leave the place he has called home for 28 years. McGrath, 40, spent…

Opening Up: The search for Captain Cook’s partner goes on

11 February 2016 0 comments

…to unacceptable proportions. Yorkshire felt that their man was harshly treated as he was excluded from the tours of South Africa and the UAE so will he get another opportunity?…

Where are they now? Durham – 1992 County Championship debutants

9 February 2016 0 comments

…captained England. Also played League football for Scunthorpe. Lives in North Yorkshire and commentates for Sky Sports. David Graveney: Left-arm spinner who played for Gloucestershire. A qualified chartered accountant, he…

Ian Bell to captain MCC in Abu Dhabi

5 February 2016 0 comments

…as they face Yorkshire in the annual four-day game, beginning on March 20. Bell already has commitments with Warwickshire in the UAE that month, leading a Bears side in two…

Surrey sign Aaron Finch as cover for Kumar Sangakkara

2 February 2016 0 comments

…up to six weeks from the end of June. Finch, 29, has previously played for Yorkshire and is expected to make his debut in the Championship game against Warwickshire on…

Hosts named for Women’s Super League

15 January 2016 0 comments

…team while Hampshire will host a side alongside partners including Sussex. There are six hosts for the competition with Lancashire, Loughborough University, Surrey and Yorkshire making up the half-dozen. All…

Where are they now? Lincolnshire – 1974 Gillette Cup giant-killers

5 January 2016 0 comments

…so when they beat Yorkshire in the same round of the same competition just 12 months earlier. Maslin said: “It was so unexpected. We had just really wanted to put…

England’s Joe Root on his rise to World No.1

21 December 2015 0 comments

…the former England and Yorkshire captain who also played cricket at the Root family club, Sheffield Collegiate. Before he made his debut for Yorkshire, in a one-day match against Essex…

Jonny Bairstow to stay at Yorkshire

18 December 2015 0 comments

IT’S not just an England recall that Jonny Bairstow earned from his excellent 2015 form – he has now been rewarded with a new three-year Yorkshire deal. The 26-year-old is…

Where are they now? Warwickshire – County Championship runners-up 1971

18 December 2015 0 comments

…beaten Yorkshire in a game that was touch and go with about 20 minutes to spare. “At the moment we took the last Yorkshire wicket there is a photo of…

Where are they now? Worcestershire – Benson & Hedges Cup runners-up 1973

8 December 2015 0 comments

…a decade earlier the county had been a force in the domestic game winning back to back County Championships in an era when Yorkshire were sweeping all before them. But…

Yorkshire name new limited overs captain

4 December 2015 0 comments

Alex Lees has been appointed as Yorkshire’s captain for 50-over and Twenty20 cricket. The 22-year-old will be the county’s youngest skipper since limited-overs games were introduced in 1963. It won’t…

2016 County cricket fixtures

4 December 2015 0 comments

THE countdown to summer is well and truly underway with the release of the domestic fixtures for 2016. Yorkshire will be looking to win the County Championship for the third…

Yorkshire groundsman picks up top award

1 December 2015 0 comments

YORKSHIRE have picked up another County Championship accolade as groundsman Andy Fogarty was awarded the main prize at the Groundsman of the Year Awards. Fogarty, who moved to Headingley from…

Where are they now? Lancashire – NatWest Trophy and Benson & Hedges Cup winners 1990

1 December 2015 0 comments

…as scorer until two years before his death in September 1999. Chris Hassell: Former Crystal Palace secretary who spent 25 years in cricket and was Yorkshire’s chief executive until 2002….

Where are they now? Durham – Minor Counties champions 1980

24 November 2015 0 comments

…the the Durham Senior League and the North Yorkshire & South Durham League,” he said. “Certainly during a large part of the successful run the Durham Senior League supplied the…

Innovation and passion in Connor’s revolution

10 November 2015 0 comments

…into ‘gentlemen’ and ‘players,’ which remained in cricket until 1963. A birthright rule existed at Yorkshire until 1992 and it was not until 1998 that women could be admitted into…

Club Spotlight – Finchampstead CC

10 November 2015 0 comments

…1981. Memorial Ground this year celebrated 35 years of hosting Berkshire County matches and Yorkshire, Kent and Durham have all played there. In 1993 England faced India in the Women’s…

T20 Blast fixtures

4 November 2015 0 comments

…July 20 Yorkshire v Durham, Headingley, Leeds Friday July 22 Derbyshire v Worcestershire, County Ground, Derby Durham v Lancashire, Riverside Ground, Chester-le-Street Warwickshire v Nottinghamshire, Edgbaston, Birmingham Yorkshire v Northamptonshire,…

One-Day Cup fixtures