The immediate answer (how often do you get that in an opening paragraph?) is that it depends if you’re a fan worried about the potential roadblock for young English county cricketers, a county coach looking to bolster an under-strength squad or a professional cricketer after financial security and a new chapter in life. Kolpak has […]
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Gary Ballance captains Yorkshire’s renaissance
Well, well… Yorkshire County Cricket Club’s captaincy roll of honour now officially spans from Lord Hawke to Gary Ballance. Ballance has become Yorkshire County Cricket Club captain across all three formats after being approached by new First XI Coach Andrew Gale. The 27-year-old England batsman described the Yorkshire captaincy as “impossible to turn down” and […]
What’s on the agenda for Andrew Gale as Yorkshire’s first-team coach?
Embed from Getty Images One of the burning questions of the autumn has been resolved as Yorkshire County Cricket Club captain Andrew Gale announced his retirement to become the successor to Jason Gillespie as first-team coach. This bold move by the county sees continuity within the club with Gale taking over, having led Yorkshire to […]
Questions to answer ahead of England’s Test series with India
Embed from Getty Images Well, England drawing the two-Test series with Bangladesh was not in any script. Bangladesh have never beaten England in Test cricket until now (Zimbabwe and West Indies were their only victories in nearly a hundred Tests) so it’s a significant milestone in their history. To achieve some sort of perspective, according […]
Technology offers broadcast hope for cricket but beware too many strings
Embed from Getty Images The Test match in Chittagong that England edged by twenty two runs was acclaimed as an absolute humdinger. This was down-to-the-wire, chew-your-fingernails-ragged, watch-between-splayed-fingers sporting tension but how many followed it? It got me thinking about the shifting sands of how we consume media and that the fractured nature of broadcasting and […]
Who will succeed Jason Gillespie at Yorkshire County Cricket Club?
The departure of the popular Australian coach Jason Gillespie has left a void at Yorkshire County Cricket Club after a very successful era at Headingley in which he masterminded successive County Championships. Natural talk of Dizzy’s successor is rife given it’s a plum job at a prestigious club with all of its recent success and […]
What do you want to read on cricketyorkshire.com?
I need your help before you go into winter hibernation unless you’re the pockets of international Cricket Yorkshire readers from South Africa, India and Australia for whom winter means warmth and light past 3pm. Once the season is over, some cricket fans switch their attention to other sports, glue themselves to England’s exploits overseas or […]
What is Yorkshire’s stance on the new city-based T20 competition?
Yesterday was quite the day. As the sun set on Somerset’s ten-wicket victory over Yorkshire ensuring the County Championship race remains tantalisingly open for now, news broke of plans for a city-based T20 tournament. Based on the England & Wales Board’s press release, we now know this definitively: a new eight team T20 competition, in […]
Why Yorkshire CCC can win the County Championship
The first sign that Yorkshire County Cricket Club won’t have it all their own way in 2016 emerged in the United Arab emirates when the MCC defeated them by four wickets. The loss was a rarity in four-day cricket for the White Rose county who were only defeated once in 2015 and once in 2014 […]
Will Geoffrey Boycott be on board?
The release of Yorkshire County Cricket Club’s financial results up to the end of 2015 should have been a relatively dry and uneventful day for news. The positive announcement that the county club had broken into profit for the first time since 2009 was somewhat deflated as a subsequent media storm broke concerning the candidacy […]