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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Sport
Exclusive by Matt Hughes

Yorkshire put private ownership plans on hold as focus turns to Hundred auction

View of Headingley Stadium.
Yorkshire owe the Graves family more than £20m. Photograph: Michael Regan/Getty Images

Yorkshire have put on hold controversial plans to take the 162‑year‑old ­members’ club into private ownership.

In announcing his intention to demutualise the county last year the chair, Colin Graves, claimed that without “swift and decisive action” Yorkshire “will be fighting for its ­survival”, but the Guardian has learned that the process has been paused without the club securing the additional external investment it had been seeking.

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