I believe they are among those sides with the most batting points in the division, yet time after time the second innings seems to be a disaster.

Jacques Rudolph is obviously a class player yet he can only produce one good innings in a match. Michael Vaughan has also been a huge disappointment.

As for the bowling, Rana Naved has hardly been a major success and has proved very expensive in terms of runs conceded.

None of the young bowlers are making a mark and I even think young Adil Rashid has been less than effective.

It seems that relegation is almost a certainty which is sad considering the high expectations at the start of the campaign.

Could it be that the coaching needs to be looked at?

Roger Smith, Barnsley

I would just like to use your letters page in the Yorkshire Post to say a big vote of thanks to the soon-to-retire Darren Gough.

It is difficult to imagine the game of cricket without 'Goughie', a character who has graced our great game with enthusiasm and quality play almost from the very day he burst onto the scene at Headingley.

Whether he was playing for his beloved Yorkshire or busting a gut for England... and yes even when he was down in Essex... Gough gave it his all.

Perhaps my greatest memory of the player was seeing his wide grin on the day he took a hat-trick for England against the Australians Down Under. England had endured a tough campaign (don't we always?) and yet even though the series was lost, he still came bustling in with all the menace of a bowler who still believed glory was just around the corner.

He will be greatly missed by all of us Yorkshire supporters and it is now an even greater source of annoyance that with him gone and neither Matthew Hoggard or Michael Vaughan in the England set-up, it means Yorkshire no longer has a player in the Test match side.

Tim Mickleburgh, Grimsby.

I'm puzzled by the letter from D Filer (September 1).

For of course Don Bradman's 334 at Leeds in 1930 was a world record Test score, Walter Hammond's impressive 336 against New Zealand not coming until 1933.

Where some confusion arose was in 1938, when Hutton scored 364 at the Oval.

Many people took this as beating Bradman's record rather than Hammond's, as the latter was achieved against a team somewhat equivalent to Bangladesh today.
Sport editor's note: Thanks to Mr Mickleburgh for his letter pointing out the above error.

Mr Filer's argument was that Don Bradman's score of 334 at Headingley in 1930 could not have been a record score at the time because Walter Hammond held the landmark with his 364 scored at the Oval in 1933.

Clearly, and point missed by us on the Yorkshire Post sports desk, the Don's achievement came before Mr Hammond's and was, therefore, a record. This should have been spotted in the letter.