Yorkshire

Western Australia captain Sam Whiteman is returning home to join Yorkshire on a three-year, all-format contract.

It will be of little consolation to Joe Root that he finished the Ashes series as England’s leading run-scorer with 400 from the five matches, including two centuries - a best of 160 - at Brisbane and Sydney.

Yorkshire men's batting all-rounder Will Bennison has been called up to the England squad as an injury replacement for the forthcoming Under 19s World Cup in Zimbabwe and Namibia.

Gavin Hamilton is just over a year into his job as Yorkshire’s general manager of cricket - 14 months to be precise - and the former international all-rounder says he is very happy with the progression made in that time.

Vice captain Maddie Ward believes the character of Yorkshire’s squad shone through last season en-route to their trophy-winning campaign.

We could write a whole series of articles on this day alone, with Yorkshire hammering Glamorgan by nine wickets in a rain-affected Metro Bank One-Day Cup final at New Road in mid-September.

Anthony McGrath says the landslide home win over Worcestershire at Headingley in April was the highlight of his first year back at Headingley.

Revenge was timely and very sweet as Yorkshire beat Middlesex for the first time in 2025, keeping their trophy dream alive.

The Ashes may well be done and dusted, but that will not stop thousands of England fans from descending on Melbourne and Sydney for the Christmas and New Year’s Tests over the next fortnight.

When you look down the list of Yorkshire’s best bowling figures in first-class cricket, there are plenty of highlights to choose from. Three players have taken 10 wickets in an innings, for example, the great Hedley Verity doing it twice. Plenty of nine-fers too. But another one catches the eye. Ted Peate’s 8-5 against Surrey at Holbeck in 1883.

Anthony McGrath has hailed Jonny Bairstow’s desire to keep on producing, saying it’s “fantastic” that the star wicketkeeper-batter has committed to the long-term with Yorkshire.