Reeve lined up for Yorkshire role

Dermot Reeve is being lined up by Yorkshire as a member of their new management team at Headingley, to help the club bounce back from another poor year.

As well as missing out on promotion in the Championship, Yorkshire were relegated to the second division of the National League, and their chief executive Colin Graves has promised a major shake-up. "There will have to be changes because we have gone through a very disappointing season."

Reeve, a former coach at Somerset, played three Tests and 29 one-day internationals, and was a member of England's squad at the 1992 and 1996 World Cups. His innovative approach to captaincy helped Warwickshire to seven trophies in five years in the mid-1990s, and he is just the man to dust off a few cobwebs. Although it is likely that he would combine any new role with his current job as a TV commentator.

But Graves told the Yorkshire Post newspaper than no appointment was imminent. "Nothing has been decided, but there are several options," he said. "When I came in to this a year ago, it was basically to get the finances turned round and we have done that. Now I have to turn my attention to the cricket side and both the coaching and management set-up will be changed."

Yorkshire has undergone a spate of managerial changes in recent months. The Australian Wayne Clark was appointed as first-team coach in 2001 and duly delivered Yorkshire their first Championship title in 33 years. But Clark was sacked the following year, when Yorkshire were relegated after managing two victories in 16 matches, and a home-grown team was appointed, including Geoff Cope as director of cricket, and two coaches in Kevin Sharp and Arnie Sidebottom.

But rain denied them the chance of promotion in their final match against Gloucestershire, and it seems inevitable that the playing staff will have to be pruned.