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Cheers for that. So just the Glamorgan matches to add plus a few away T20 matches. Will update the post above cheers again
Still not published the second eleven fixtures
Useful for GUIDANCE but check https://live.nvplay.com/ecb/
April 11-14 Warks v Glamorgan (Portland Rd)
April 19 Warks v Cardiff UCCE (Moseley CC) 50-over game
April 25-28 Warks v Gloucs (Portland Rd)
May 2-5 Warks v South Asian Cricket Academy (Portland Rd) SACA website says 4-day match but might be 3 so may start May 3rd
May 6 Warks v South Asian Cricket Academy (Stratford-upon-Avon) 50-over game
May 18 Warks v Gloucs (Portland Rd) T20
May 19 Worcs v Warks (Barnt Green) T20
May 24 Warks v Northants (Portland Rd) T20
May 25 Warks v Somerset (Portland Rd) T20
May 30 Warks v Worcs (Portland Rd) T20
May 31 Bears XI v Birmingham League XI (Kenilworth Wardens) T20
June 1 Gloucs v Warks (Cheltenham College) T20
June 2 Glamorgan v Warks (Newport) T20
June 3 Somerset v Warks (Taunton Vale) T20
June 13-16 Lancs v Warks (Chester Boughton Hall)
June 27-30 Warks v Worcs (Portland Rd)
July 11-14 Kent v Warks (Tonbridge)
July 18-21 Notts v Warks (Notts Sports Club)
August 9 Bears XI v Warwickshire League XI (Coventry & North Warwicks) T20
August 29-Sept 1 Northants v Warks (Northampton)
Sept 5-8 Warks v Essex (Portland Rd)
Sept 12-15 Somerset v Warks (Taunton Vale)
Hope they publish a full schedule soon but in the meantime I'm using this as a GUIDE only .
Continuing the positive theme about county cricket after all the negativity from the usual suspects, is the attitude of the Leicestershire CEO Sean Jarvis. who thinks (like me) that there should be 20 first class counties rather than a reduction
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/p0bjfjvk
What is the future for red-ball cricket in the English game?
Absolute top bloke. We need more positivity about the county game like this. Well done to Leics CCC memberships up 30% albeit from a low base
Home RL match v Notts August 17th appears to be at Portland Rd according to Notts website
RL Cup Final is on Saturday Sept 17th with the Semi Finals Fri 29th Aug and the wild card 2nd vs 3rd 26th Aug
HUNDRED Finals weekend must be Sept 3rd/4th
Thanks for those links. All those permutations over the final 2-3 days. Championship cricket is still the best. I've enjoyed my trips to Taunton over the years
Good lord that was awful from start to finish. Christ what are they gonna do to the county game now on the back of that? Heaven knows but it is a worry. Maybe a reset but I worry there'll be further erosion and damage done to reinforce the madness of the last 5 to 10 years poor scheduling
Chris Wright tweeted this morning the draft fixtures ARE out and will be published next week
The initial BBC report may have implied YCCC were getting away without sanction but reports in today's media (Times article) clarify that fixture publication could no longer be delayed due to frustration from counties but equally sanctions on YCCC couldn't be decided until the CDP had released their findings. Equally the DCMS will be releasing their findings this Friday
Hopefully we get a trip to Scarborough then but Durham for one won't be at all happy if all Yorkshire's punishment ends up being is banned from hosting international cricket between December and March
Colwyn Bay CC suggesting draft fixture list next week at the earliest but it won't be released to joe public until well after the Hobart Test according to The Cricketer.
https://www.colwynbaycricketclub.co.uk/first-class-match-2021/
http://www.thecricketer.com/Topics/countycricket/wait_goes_on_domestic_schedule_2022_fixtures_not_expected_until_after_mens_ashes.html
Several counties have been frustrated by the delay, which is believed to relate to both the new complexities of the women's fixture list in 2022 - with international, Hundred and regional schedules having to fit around the Commonwealth Games in Birmingham - and the situation at Yorkshire.
Worcestershire chair Fanos Hira said he expected the fixtures to be available in the "next two to three weeks"
"Hopefully that will help members in terms of booking hotels and such for away fixtures," he said. "It is frustrating and we hope it gets resolved quite quickly."five rounds of County Championship fixtures will be played in June and July -
Which we got wind about in December
The ECB are also awaiting the findings of the CDC (Cricket Disciplinary Commission) which will hopefully be released back end of January to determine Yorkshire's penalty for their failings as a club during 2018-2021 over the Azeem Rafiq affair. I should imagine the ECB / counties will want this settled before issuing publicly any fixtures schedules to their members
McGrath is a surprise. Would he really leave Essex? He was also there around the time of some of the racism
From the looks of things it doesn't look like 16 full time appointments have come to an end. Probably 5 or 6 like that with the remainder on rolling or zero hours contracts that conveniently come to an end - e.g. the sub-contracted physio department kinda like a school or college all of a sudden deciding to source their agency catering or supply teaching staff from a different employer next year
It is clearly a move designed to appease the ECB and help get DCMS off the ECB's back this which is why it had to be done quickly. DCMS had threatened the games governing body with a regulator coming in so I guess this is the first step towards trying to ensure that doesn't come to pass. Also to convince sponsors who won't touch Yorkshire with a barge pole unless drastic measures have been taken
If as is almost certain, Yorkshire are relegated to Div 2 and lose some of their higher earning players, they will need fresh coaching and admin staff and they'll be able to cope with this upheaval better in Div 2 anyway - I reckon it'll be good for them to start with a clean slate
Will be quite a culture shock going to Headingley next season. Some of the more reactionary died in the wool stuck in the 1970's tutting fuddy duddies will be gone pretty sharpish. They are bound to have groups of visitors in from local schools - in the aim of reviving (or more truthfully, generating from scratch) interest in the county side among the local Leeds/Bradford population
Exactly which is why it has been so necessary for that club to completely remove what had gone on before. It had previously discriminated and ought not do so going forwards is a point well worth restating.
Several of the coaches I imagine will re-apply for roles in due course. Those with less baggage will have more of a chance within the new set up. Yorkshire CCC have a particularly difficult job now of attracting talent from a wide demograohic within and beyond their county boundaries to want to play for, work with and watch them, Many have clearly previously been put off from working at for the club at Headingley. Hopefully that mindset is ending quickly now. About time too.
If I were Warks I'd ignore their first team and look at trying to pick off some of Tykes better young players who might end up getting released as a result of all this
If the incumbents were re-selected it certainly wouldn't be down to merit so it seems a moot point.
I guess they will get lots of help from the ECB/PCA with this as they may well be restarting as an academy side in CC Div 2 which seems almost certain. Plus there will probably be an exodus of their more senior players to other counties (mainly Surrey Hants or Notts) or to a year traipsing around the T20/T10/T1 circus
According to the Telegraph a decision will be made as to whether Yorkshire are relegated to Division Two in exchange for getting their international matches back for 2022 as loss of the latter would be more catastrophic for the club.
Also 3 rounds of county championship matches in July before that break for the Hundred & RL Cup which is pushed back to the end of July into August. Bham Phoenix & Bears RL matches will be away for the first week + of that as the Commonwealth Games will be in progress
This is commendable initial work from the club and both Bressy now and Recordo over the last 8 years. We're perhaps fortunate that in this instance Warks have a lad who was prepared to speak up at the time (2013) as well as work with the club now.
I hope other current cricket players will now feel confident about speaking like this as it'll help point towards a viable future for the sport. He broke through at Warwicks to enjoy a short professional career but how many players as talented (or more) were held back by the club having this reputation in the area and either moved away or gave up the game?
His experiences coming through age group and club cricket in the area is informative if that has been and is still today the view of young cricket players in the Birmingham area - that it represents a class issue where you need to go to the right private schools in the right leafy areas of the West Midlands or have the right parental connections to get much of a look in and where race intersects quite abruptly - for the good of the game these barriers need tearing down I would hope there is an enormous appetite to do that at Warwicks when there clearly was at least some resistance to acknowledge these issues previously and perhaps even efforts to entrench them within Yorkshire.
Intellingent discussion re: leadership from Sport England's Chris Grant OBE who sent an open letter to the counties/ECB last week
https://chrisg14a.wordpress.com/2021/11/18/open-letter-to-leaders-of-english-cricket/
Well worth listening to this anyone involved at all levels within the game;
https://audioboom.com/posts/7985661-where-sport-goes-next-after-the-azeem-rafiq-revelations
With this particular incident at least they have a template for dealing with it. The same way they dealt with the Ollie Robinson revelations of historic social media earlier this year. Some thought it too lenient, others too harsh - I thought it was one thing the ECB seemed to get about right.
Obvs these players are not employed by first class counties any longer but still.
Lets not allow it to deflect from the greater task at hand. Although the next few weeks as we all expect will be pretty grim there could be some real shocks with what comes out and the game itself might never be able to revert back to what it was but that itself in many senses is no bad thing.
This thing is way bigger than Azeem vs Yorkshire now as that's been settled. This issue does not need a "figurehead" it needs everyone. If Azeem's aim was to bring down individuals who had wronged him I guess he'd no longer have a leg to stand on. But that's not what he's been calling for, he's demanding change to end systematic racism within Yorkshire & wider cricket. His posts from 10 years ago (sounds like more to come) shouldn't alter sensible folks views on the situation but you just knew the Farage's et al would be suddenly showing interest today