Picture by Allan McKenzie/SWPix.com. Dom Bess is heading to Rome for some T10 cricket.
Dom Bess will get his first taste of franchise cricket next week having signed for the Napoli Knights to play in the inaugural Italia T10 competition.
Yorkshire all-rounder and one-day captain Bess, fresh from a fine 2026 summer with the county, will head to Rome to compete in a six-team event which runs from November 18-29.
Bess will line up for a team who is co-owned by Sir James Anderson and former Derbyshire, Lancashire and Somerset wicketkeeper Luke Sutton, now a cricket agent.
Anderson will captain the side, with former Yorkshire T20 skipper Dawid Malan due to lead the Venice Livewires.
Another ex-White Rose player Shaun Marsh is also set to represent the Milan Icons, while Chris Gayle will play alongside Malan.
Moeen Ali, meanwhile, is also in T10 action but in the UAE.
He’s currently captaining the Arabian Aces in the latest edition of Abu Dhabi T10 event which started on Saturday and runs through to November 20.
Moeen’s Aces have played four, won two and lost two. They play later today against the UAE Bulls.
Moeen has not yet bowled and only batted twice, posting scores of 15 and one.
Picture by Allan McKenzie/SWPix.com. Ami Campbell and Erin Thomas are both playing club cricket in Australia this winter.
Yorkshire women’s star Erin Thomas opened up with 55 off 48 balls in her third winter appearance for Brisbane side Sandgate and Redcliffe on Sunday.
Thomas hit six fours to help her side claim an eight-wicket victory chasing 121 against Valley women.
The top-order batter is one of a handful of Yorkshire women’s players playing club cricket in Australia this winter.
Alice Clarke has contributed a top-score of 26 and has claimed three victims behind the stumps in three matches for Glenelg women in Adelaide.
Ami Campbell today posted a top-score of 34 in her eighth appearance of the winter in Sydney.
Campbell opened the batting in a T20 friendly for an ADF Tour side against a Lindfield Exhibition XI. She is playing her regular winter cricket for Gordon women.
Off-spinner Claudie Cooper has taken two wickets in a trio of T20 appearances for Prahran in Melbourne, a club Maddie Ward is also due to join later this winter should her recovery from a foot injury which ruined the second half of her summer go to plan.
Jess Woolston has only played two T20 matches for Carlton in Melbourne and has yet to strike with the ball, although the seamer has been miserly in conceding 23 and 24 in two four-over spells.
All-rounder Ria Fackrell struck once with her off-spin on debut for Tasmanian club Clarence District on Saturday, a T20 defeat to Kingborough.
Picture by Paul Kane/Getty Images. Joe Root meets young fans at the WACA in Perth after England played Western Australia in a warm-up match on Saturday. Sam Whiteman featured for the hosts against Root and fellow county colleague Harry Brook. England won, with Whiteman contributing 17 for WA and Root and Brook 13 and 27 for England.
Joe Root will tomorrow play his 200th one-day international for England, who begin a three-match 50-over series against Australia in Perth (3.30am UK).
Root will become the third England player – men’s and women’s – to reach 200, with Eoin Morgan (225) and Jos Buttler (204) having already brought up the milestone.
Root, 35, is still England’s leading ODI run-scorer with 8,010 to his name, including 20 centuries.
The Yorkshire batting star said: “I played my 100th ODI here in Australia at Sydney (January 2018), so to be back here for the 200th game is obviously a huge privilege, really.
“To get the opportunity to play for England for so long is something that as a kid in the back garden or on the driveway playing little Test Matches and international games against my brother (Billy) and my friends with a tape-ball and twigs in the ground as stumps (is amazing).
“To then get the opportunity to come all around the world – and here in Australia – to play as many games as I have is a real privilege.
“So, very proud of that, and hopefully we can continue our development as a team over the next little while ahead of what’s a very exciting World Cup not far down the line.”
England and Australia are preparing for that aforementioned World Cup in South Africa, Zimbabwe and Namibia next October and November.
Picture by Morgan Hancock/Getty Images. Sarah Glenn in action for Brisbane Heat against Melbourne Stars this morning.
Sarah Glenn claimed the wicket of the great Meg Lanning as her Brisbane Heat side beat Rich Pyrah’s Melbourne Stars in this morning’s Big Bash clash in Melbourne.
In the battle of the Yorkshire colleagues, Glenn and co won by eight wickets chasing 166.
Glenn returned impressive figures of 1-21 from four overs of leg-spin as the Stars made 165-5, with opener Lanning contributing 52.
In reply, Georgia Redmayne led the way with 74 not out.
The Heat have three wins and two defeats from their five games. Unfortunately for Yorkshire head coach Pyrah, who is leading the Stars, they have now lost five of their six games, winning only one.
Glenn has taken five wickets from her five appearances.
Picture by Allan McKenzie/SWPix.com. George Hill is heading to South Africa with the England Lions.
George Hill says he is “buzzing” to have been called up by the England Lions for their forthcoming one-day and first-class tour of South Africa.
The Lions travel to South Africa later this month for a training camp and then five-match tour running through until just before Christmas.
All-rounder Hill has been rewarded for his outstanding form for Yorkshire this summer and will tour in a squad led by new head coach Jonathan Trott and includes ex-White Rose fast bowler Matthew Fisher.
You will be able to read a more in-depth interview about the trip on yorkshireccc.com early next week.
But, as a taster, the 25-year-old said: “It’ll be a pretty cool month or so.
“I’m really looking forward to picking Jonathan Trott’s brain. Obviously he’s played a lot for England and has coached all around the world.
“So, I’ll be trying to be a sponge for as much of the trip as possible, with him and some of the players there as well.”
The Lions play ODIs in Pietermaritzburg on December 1 and in Paarl on December 4 and 6. They then play four-day Tests in Pretoria and Benoni starting on December 10 and 18 respectively.
Picture by Allan McKenzie/SWPix.com. Ben Cliff is joining Anthony McGrath and Gavin Hamilton at a White Rose Files event in Guiseley later this month.
Yorkshire men’s head coach Anthony McGrath, general manager of cricket Gavin Hamilton and emerging fast bowler Ben Cliff will all be speaking at an event at the Three Swords pub in Guiseley on Thursday November 26.
The event is a White Rose Files website event organised and hosted by Jonathan Doidge.
WRF is a Yorkshire Cricket website which has been operational since April, and Doidge will be quizzing the trio on all things White Rose.
Doidge’s website is a subscription-based website, and annual subscribers get free access. Tickets for monthly subscribers are £12.50 each and general admission is £25.
The event is 7pm for 7.30pm, with 80 places available on a first come, first served basis. For more information, contact [email protected].
