Chris Waters

AS Yorkshire bid for a late title push and demutualisation rumbles on, we invited readers to put a series of questions to cricket correspondent Chris Waters. Here is a selection of the questions and answers…

ASKED at his pre-match press conference whether he had any concerns that his return to the captaincy might affect his batting, Joe Root gave a suitably weary reply.

THERE scarcely looked to be a spare seat in the house.

SOMEONE once asked me: “Why don’t you like The Hundred?”

WANTED: a fiery red-head with a hundred caps to replace a fiery red-head with a hundred caps as England Test captain. Previous Ashes-winning experience essential. Must have a no-backward-step philosophy and the ability to lead by example. Bar-emptying batting skills desirable.

YORKSHIRE’s only previous meeting with Hampshire in T20 cricket came in 2012 when they lost the final by 10 runs in Cardiff.

WHILE it is often said that the league table provides an honest reflection of performance, the First Division of the Championship seems to offer a deceptive narrative in Yorkshire’s case.

WHAT have David Denton, Wilfred Rhodes, Herbert Sutcliffe, Len Hutton and Martyn Moxon got in common - apart from having played for the greatest county on God’s earth, of course?

THE sight of a pig being chased by a butcher across the outfield at North Marine Road on Saturday was not quite the most famous fancy dress interruption that the ground has witnessed.

Dear Mr and Mrs Yorkshire CCC,