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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

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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

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New Year's Resolutions: deep heat and book deal

Ok, so the Christmas turkey has long since bitten the dust and January is here, heralding a land of opportunity. Have you thought about your 2016? What do you want it to look like? Any projects, ambitions or changes to life or are you the sort of person that contentedly

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Ditching the coin toss and don't say balls to pink

Plans to scrap the coin toss in Division Two of the LV=County Championship next season has sent seismic, shuddering shock waves through the global game. The idea is to...wait for this decisive, bold and innovative step into the unknown...trial it for a year in 2016 to see

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Andrew Gale

Yorkshire CCC are champions by 68pts

The bone-rattler from Leeds has a smattering of county fans in this final chapter of the 2015 county season. A few of us weave our way up the back road and over the railway bridge en route to Headingley where Yorkshire lead Sussex by nearly 300 overnight. Breakfast is

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Sixes and samosas with Dewsbury vicars and imams

Sixes and samosas with Dewsbury vicars and imams

Back in September 2015, John Fuller travelled to Dewsbury to watch an unusual cricket match. Minutes from the hustle and bustle of central Dewsbury, down a path that melds to the contour of the river Calder, lies a gem of a cricket ground. With the striking backdrop of the aquaduct,

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Will Yorkshire CCC do the double?

Whisper it quietly but Yorkshire CCC have already defied history this season. If you glance back at those counties that win the County Championship, they don’t do it again the following season. I can imagine some of the more superstitious of you cringing at that. Ok, so they haven’

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The most important article you might read this year

This is an interview about the damage the sun can do - and how being out in it watching or playing cricket can play its part - from Lawrence, Chairman of Rawdon Cricket Club who has also worked for years at the Yorkshire Cricket Board. Keen to raise awareness of skin cancer,

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Could the BT Sport Ashes deal rejuvenate English cricket?

The news that BT Sport has won the UK TV rights to broadcast the next Ashes in Australia in 2017-18 was greeted here at CYHQ with a dollop of grumpiness, lashings of indignation and a sprinkling of excitement. The five-year deal between the broadcaster and Cricket Australia, understood

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Yorkshire's batsmen enjoy the sea air at Hove

From time to time, writers submit their thoughts for consideration on Cricket Yorkshire and there's been some really popular articles around club cricket this season. As Yorkshire take their final few strides towards the LV=County Championship title (or not), it's the turn of county cricket

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Death of a Gentleman: cricket documentary with bite

Spoiler alert. If you care about the game of cricket in any way, shape or form, the cricket documentary, Death of a Gentleman, will have you weeping into your popcorn - if you haven’t already chucked it at the screen when Giles Clarke appears. This is absorbing viewing, as skilfully

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Joe Root to David Willey: Your cricket week in numbers

While some cricket statistics remain etched into time like barnacles on a boat, others are at risk as were the sand castles braced for the lapping waves on Scarborough's North Bay Beach during this year's cricket festival. If the briefest summer shower of cricket stats is

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Gale's decision prompts Yorkshire split captaincy

So, Yorkshire County Cricket Club’s Andrew Gale has relinquished his limited-overs captaincy with immediate effect. The news comes in the wake of a poor NatWest T20 Blast campaign where the county under-performed and failed to make the knock-out stages. Gale also drew criticism from certain quarters

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Does franchise cricket affect the Scarborough Festival?

The debate around city-based T20 franchises in England and Wales has erupted again with the news that Sky has offered £40m a year to broadcast a new Twenty20 tournament for 2017. If this is to be believed, eight city-based teams would play in a three-week block in

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Yorkshire Vikings target one-day cricket success

Yorkshire County Cricket Club can now turn their attention fully to the Royal London One-Day Cup safe in the knowledge that little distracts them from a proper crack at one-day cricket. After being dumped out of the NatWest T20 Blast (less said the better) and then winning at

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