Yorkshire

Anthony McGrath believes Yorkshire’s forthcoming training camp in Melbourne will give his players a real head start heading into the new summer.

Yorkshire captain Jonny Bairstow described winning the SA20 title with Sunrisers Eastern Cape in South Africa yesterday as “pretty amazing”.

Dutch international all-rounder Logan van Beek is returning to county cricket to boost Yorkshire’s bid for a fast start to the new summer.

Joe Sayers has always had a keen eye for numbers. A man who now works in the city, he was a left-handed opening batter who just loved to go big when he got the opportunity in a Yorkshire shirt.

Adam Lyth has his eyes on a prize with Yorkshire before he hangs up his bat.

In AJ - Andrew James - Tye, Yorkshire have signed a seamer who is right up there amongst the very best white-ball bowlers Australia has ever produced.

I had a really enjoyable Christmas, going to the Melbourne and Sydney Tests with my brother Reuben, who is living in Australia at the moment. But it did involve a quite bizarre and amusing moment in Adelaide.

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.