Picture by Brian Sanderson/Yorkshire Archives Committee. The headstone of Ted Peate was unveiled at Yeadon Cemetery yesterday.
A headstone for former Yorkshire and England spinner Ted Peate was unveiled in at Yeadon Cemetery yesterday.
Peate was regarded as one of the finest spinners of the Victorian era and played for Yorkshire between 1879 and 1887, taking 794 runs.
He is the first name on the Lord’s honours board having taken 6-85 against Australia in 1884.
Peate died in 1900, aged 45. But he was buried in an unmarked grave at Yeadon.
Earlier this year, a campaign was launched – led by his biographer Ian Lockwood – to raise money for a headstone, something which was supported by Yorkshire CCC.
And that was unveiled yesterday.
Lockwood’s book, Ten Drunks and a Parson – the Life and Times of Ted Peate, has been published by Pitch.
Picture courtesy of Yorkshire Archives. Former White Rose and England spinner Ted Peate.
A handful of Yorkshire’s men’s players are in Australia playing club cricket this winter, with the majority of those who have started all in Melbourne.
Yash Vagadia is in New Zealand with Onslow CC and has posted scores of 38 and 0 in a pair of T20 wins, also adding hauls of 1-32 and 3-27 with his spin. He has also contributed in the field.
Jafer Chohan is due to represent Sydney University prior to his Big Bash commitments with Sydney Sixers, but he is yet to play.
In Melbourne, five players are underway. Noah Kelly has batted twice for Beaumaris, posting 24 in a one-day defeat and 72 in their ongoing two-day game with South Caulfield, who are 59-1 in reply to 197. That game resumes on Saturday.
Dan Moriarty is playing for Caulfield and posted 37 and 0-60 from nine overs in a one-day defeat on debut. They are also playing an ongoing two-day game, and the White Rose left-arm spinner contributed 28 to Caulfield’s 260-9 against Ivanhoe.
Both Kelly and Moriarty are playing a level below Premier Cricket in Melbourne, where Fin Bean, Harry Duke and Will Luxton are.
Fin Bean posted 43 in a two-day defeat on debut for Melbourne University earlier this month, while Harry Duke (Essendon) and Will Luxton (Greenvale) played against each other in their first match of the winter.
That two-day game was won by Essendon, with Duke contributing 17 to 355-8 before Luxton’s 32 was not enough to prevent defeat as Greenvale posted 293 all out. Ben Cliff is also due to represent Greenvale for a second winter running but hasn’t played yet.
Picture by Allan McKenzie/SWPix.com. Yash Vagadia is one of those White Rose players abroad playing club cricket this winter. Here, he is seen sub-fielding for England against India in this summer’s Headingley Test Match.
Three of Yorkshire’s women’s stars are also in Australia playing club cricket, with two having started their stints and another due to.
Top order batter Ami Campbell has played two T20s for Sydney side Gordon, posting scores of 13 and 11 in a pair of defeats.
New-ball seamer Jess Woolston, meanwhile, has played one T20 for North Geelong, returning 0-23 from four overs in a victory.
Rebecca Duckworth, meanwhile, landed on the Gold Coast earlier this week and is due to start her second stint with the Dolphins this weekend.
White Rose captain Lauren Winfield-Hill, meanwhile, has started her winter spell of state cricket with Queensland superbly.
In four 50-over matches, all four of which the Fire have won, Winfield-Hill has posted scores of 38, 59, 101 not out and 9 not out.
The unbeaten 101 came in victory over the Australian Capital Territory in Brisbane.
Picture by Allan McKenzie/SWPix.com. Fast bowler Jess Woolston is wintering Down Under.
There’s been a little corner of Yorkshire in Canada during the early stages of the winter, with four men’s and women’s stars playing some T10 cricket.
Sterre Kalis, Dawid Malan, James Wharton and our former all-rounder Jordan Thompson have all been involved in a pair of Canada Super 60 events during the first couple of weeks of the month.
Both events were staged in Vancouver.
Kalis played in a three-match series between the Toronto Sixers, who she played for, and the Vancouver Thunderbirds. The Sixers won 2-1, and the Dutch international posted scores of 11, 4 and 10 not out.
Malan, Wharton and Thompson all played for the White Rock Warriors in a six-team event, won by Brampton Blitz.
Thompson was the Warriors’ standout player with 111 runs and four wickets in five matches, while Malan also played five times and posted 95 runs with a top score of 45. Wharton only played twice and totalled six runs.
Picture by Allan McKenzie/SWPix.com. Yorkshire’s Vitality Blast captain Dawid Malan has started his winter with some T10 cricket.
Imam-Ul-Haq, one of Yorkshire’s overseas players during the second half of the summer, has continued his impressive form since returning home to Pakistan.
Imam was superb for the White Rose during August’s Metro Bank One-Day Cup. He was the second leading run-scorer in the competition with 688 from eight matches, only 19 behind Hampshire’s Nick Gubbins despite having played three times fewer.
The opener was due to remain at Headingley until the end of the summer but was called back home early to initially play in the four-day Hanif Mohammad Trophy and then for his country.
In the former – a non first-class competition – he played three matches for Multan last month and posted scores of 330, 70, 16 and 12.
He has since taken his place at the top of the order in the ongoing home Test series against world champions South Africa and has posted scores of 93, 0, 17 and 9 in four innings. Pakistan won the first Test and lost the second, which finished earlier today.
Picture by Sameer Ali/Getty Images. Imam-Ul-Haq in action for Pakistan against South Africa,
Yorkshire’s new signing Sarah Glenn is into the semi-finals of the Women’s World Cup with England.
Spin-bowling all-rounder Glenn, a recent recruit from The Blaze, has played only once so far, with England having won four of their six matches.
She played in a rain-affected game against Pakistan in Colombo, which finished in a No Result, and she only batted in the game.
England are currently third in the table behind South Africa and Australia, with India currently holding fourth place.
New Zealand are just behind them, level on four points but with an inferior net run-rate. Both sides are playing each other today.
The Kiwis face England in the final group game on Sunday.
Meanwhile, England’s men have won their three-match T20I series in New Zealand 1-0, with two matches rained off, including at Auckland today. The first and third matches fell by the wayside, with England winning the second in Christchurch earlier this week by 65 runs defending their 236-4 total.
Captain Harry Brook contributed a superb 78 before his Yorkshire team-mate Adil Rashid starred with four wickets in bowling the Kiwis out for 171.
A three-match ODI series starts on Sunday.
Picture by Matt Roberts/Getty Images. Sarah Glenn is heading to Yorkshire after the ongoing World Cup.
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Former Yorkshire captain Craig White has left his coaching role with Lancashire.
White has been with the Red Rose county since 2021, working with both their women’s and men’s teams. He was firstly an assistant coach for their women’s team before stepping into the role as men’s lead bowling coach.
Lancashire are currently in the process of confirming their permanent men’s head coach.
Steven Croft fulfilled that role on an interim basis during the second half of the season.
Picture by Gareth Copley/Getty Images. Former Yorkshire captain Craig White.
