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Cook's one-day form earns North-South spot
May 18, 2017: Alastair Cook's impressive form in the Royal London Cup has earned him an automatic spot in next year's North v South one-day series
Yorkshire v Leicestershire, Royal London Cup, North Group, Headingley
Rafiq's intervention makes the difference
May 16, 2017: Yorkshire finished in second place to progress to a quarter-final eliminator following a 20-run victory over Leicestershire at Headingley
Yorkshire v Lancashire, Royal London Cup, North Group, Headingley
Rashid, Rafiq snuff out Lancashire to claim Roses rights
May 1, 2017: Spin proved to be Yorkshire's route to a comfortable 79-run victory over Lancashire as Adil Rashid and Azeem Rafiq were at the top of their game on a surface offering a little purchase
Hampshire v Yorkshire, Specsavers Championship Div One, Ageas Bowl, 4th day
Ballance makes Yorkshire history as Hampshire defied
Apr 24, 2017: For all Yorkshire's history, no Yorkshire batsman has ever made two hundreds in a Championship match. Gary Ballance has gone one better - a hundred and a double hundred - to defy Hampshire
Hampshire v Yorkshire, Specsavers Championship Div One, Ageas Bowl, 3rd day
Captain Ballance becomes the very stuff of Yorkshire
Apr 23, 2017: There is a long way to go if Gary Ballance's resistance with the bat is to spare Yorkshire a second defeat against Hampshire in three weeks, but his captaincy reputation is growing apace
Yorkshire v Hampshire, Specsavers Championship Div One, Headingley, 2nd day
Abbott's haul threatens Yorkshire's feel-good factor
Apr 8, 2017: Two days into Gary Ballance's reign as Yorkshire captain and a sense of bonhomie has pervaded Headingley
Yorkshire v Hampshire, Specsavers Championship Div One, Headingley, 1st day
Coad stuns Hampshire after Ballance stars with century
Apr 7, 2017: Gary Ballance and Ben Coad starred during an action-packed opening day of the Specsavers County Championship season between Yorkshire and Hampshire at Headingley
County news
Ballance takes on Yorkshire's Pandora's Box
Apr 6, 2017: Captaining Yorkshire is not a task for the faint-hearted. That honour has now been passed to Gary Ballance, a very different character to his predecessor
County previews: Yorkshire
Yorkshire start afresh under Ballance and Gale
Apr 5, 2017: ESPNcricinfo previews Yorkshire's prospects for the 2017 season
England in India 2016-17
Dec 21, 2016: They won four of the tosses, three times posted 400-plus in the first innings but still came home hammered 4-0
County news
Yorkshire gamble on Ballance captaincy
Dec 15, 2016: Yorkshire have gambled on the anticipated dwindling of Gary Ballance's Test career, at least in the short term, by appointing him captain in all three formats
India v England, 1st Test, Rajkot
Fates align as Haseeb Hameed makes homecoming debut
Nov 8, 2016: Haseeb Hameed, England's 19-year-old Test debutant, will be playing both with and against his heroes in Rajkot tomorrow, in front of his Gujarat-based extended family
India v England, 1st Test, Rajkot
Haseeb Hameed to debut for England as opener
Nov 8, 2016: Lancashire batsman Haseeb Hameed will become the youngest debutant to open for England in Test cricket, in the first match against India in Rajkot
England in Bangladesh 2016-17
England plans take shape as warm-ups offer lessons
Oct 17, 2016: A successful warm-up week means the pieces of England's jigsaw are almost in place ahead of the first Test at Chittagong
England in Bangladesh 2016-17
Duckett and Hameed make Test cases
Oct 17, 2016: England's players have a better understanding of the conditions they may face in the first Test on Thursday, after their two-day warm-up finished in a draw
Yorkshire v Durham, Specsavers Championship Div 1, Headingley, 1st day
Lees fortifies Yorkshire's hat-trick hopes
Sep 6, 2016: Alex Lees sustained Yorkshire during a tricky opening day against Durham with a season's best 132, passing 1000 first-class runs in the process
Yorkshire v Notts, Specsavers Championship Div One, Scarborough, 3rd day
Ballance century ahead of judgment day
Aug 25, 2016: Gary Ballance struck an unbeaten hundred before Yorkshire declared at Scarborough but Cricket Town will not rest unless his decision not to enforce the follow-on results in a home victory
Pakistan in England 2016
Woakes stands tall, but too many batting holes
Aug 15, 2016: After a series where their depth of allrounders stood out, but familiar batting failings remained, ESPNcricinfo looks at how England's players performed
England news
'Tough decisions' to be made on top order
Aug 15, 2016: Trevor Bayliss has challenged batsmen in county cricket to seize their opportunity over the last few weeks of the domestic season and demand selection for England's touring teams
England v Pakistan, 3rd Test, Edgbaston
Vince's style may mask a lack of substance
Aug 3, 2016: James Vince has had eight innings in which to convert his elegance into output. But he is still making the same unnerving mistakes.