Yorkshire

The Yorkshire County Cricket Club is delighted to announce that Sanjay Patel MBE has taken up the role of the Club’s Group Chief Executive Officer (CEO) following a successful period as interim CEO. 

“We’re starting harsh!” laughs Ami Campbell. And she’s right. An opening-day defeat at Headingley against Worcestershire doesn’t exactly scream ‘Classic’, does it. However, in hindsight, it did prove to be an important moment in Yorkshire’s season. 

Tom Smith says there have been some “really good performances” at second-team level this summer even if the results have been “a bit up and down”.

Over the next few months, we are running a series of articles with women's player-of-the-year Ami Campbell reflecting on the key moments in Yorkshire's trophy-winning summer. We have entitled it Campbell's Classics. Setting the scene, Ami first of all talks about winning that personal award from the members and her winter plans.

Yorkshire will have as many as 13 of their men’s and women’s players playing domestic and club cricket in Australia and New Zealand this winter, while more will head Down Under in February as part of a Melbourne-based training camp organised in conjunction with Cricket Victoria.

Lady Muriel Byford, widow of the former President and Chair of the Club in the 1990s, died this month peacefully at her home in Pannal, aged 94.

Gavin Hamilton is delighted with the increased quality and depth in Yorkshire’s spin-bowling department, highlighted by the recent signing of England leggie Sarah Glenn. 

Matthew Revis has got “a massive ceiling” believes head coach Anthony McGrath after the all-rounder earned an England Lions call-up yesterday.

Jonny Bairstow says he has found captaining Yorkshire in the Rothesay County Championship this summer “really fulfilling”.

Anthony McGrath was delighted with Yorkshire’s performance in their Rothesay County Championship season-finale with Durham at Headingley, which finished in thrilling fashion yesterday. But the county’s head coach is targeting more when the 2026 summer rolls around next April. 

Anthony McGrath was full of praise for the way his Yorkshire side signed off for 2025, securing an innings and 44-run victory over Durham at Headingley this afternoon.