Yorkshire CCC have done Colin Graves a major disservice: Yorkshire Post Letters

I would have felt more comfortable with Mr Graves back in the chair at Yorkshire especially since his Trust Fund has bankrolled the club for a number of years and without these fund the Club would be unlikely to be in existence.

To say that he was the ‘last resort’ does him a disservice, especially given his breadth of knowledge of cricket and more to the point the previous successful running of the Club during his past occupancy of the chair.

I fear that in their pursuit of money that the current Board, incidentally all appointed by Lord Patel, will seek anybody that gets them off the hook without taking into account what the donor of the money will expect in return.

It also seems that one of the reasons, possibly the main one, for their reluctance to appoint Mr Graves was that understandably he wanted full control of the Club, presumably that meant the current Board would all lose their positions.

From: Peter Rickaby, West Park, Selby.

With due respect to the current board members at Yorkshire County Cricket Club, there is no one in the country better qualified to solve the club's financial problems than Colin Graves.

To date, it appears that the directors have been scurrying around with a begging bowls, happy to accept salvation from any source no matter how dubious, just to be able to claim they have refinanced the club.

Within days of failing in this aim, I suspect these same directors will disappear from Headingley never to be seen again, leaving the Club in a parlous state.

Common sense tells you, if a person providing the required investment demands in an overall say in how the Club operates - more so when you happen to already owe that person £15m - so be it, that's the price which has to be paid.

Members should now rise up as one and demand the board urgently reopens discussions with Mr Graves.

From: Tim Emmott, Harrogate.

I find the Yorkshire Cricket Club announcement hugely insulting to Colin Graves, the former Chairman of Yorkshire CCC and the English Cricket Board, who voluntarily put in £15m of his own money to save the club.

To categorically state that he does not understand the current financial predicament of the club, as a self-made Yorkshire multi-millionaire, is just not credible.

The Yorkshire Cricket Club board is awash with recently appointed non-executive directors, mainly from outside Yorkshire, who have minimal relevant financial experience in the real world,and who have absolutely no professional experience of Yorkshire or any other cricket club.

I strongly urge Yorkshire members to fight against the misinformation coming from the current Yorkshire cricket board.