As the ground staff brushed the remaining snow from the outfield at Headingley, Yorkshire’s senior coaching team – interim managing director of cricket, Darren Gough, head coach, Ottis Gibson, and captain, Steve Patterson – sat in the cold press box to reflect on a tumultuous six months and the upcoming season.
Thursday night’s extraordinary general meeting, which overwhelmingly approved the structural changes demanded by the ECB in the wake of the Azeem Rafiq racism scandal, has given the club some financial stability after the ban from hosting international cricket was lifted.
