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FOR me, Yorkshire have prioritised their four-day cricket for so long that our one-day cricket seems to have gone to pot.

THERE was no shortage of consternation on social media, tinged with scepticism, following the announcement that Adil Rashid would be unable to play for Yorkshire again this season due to a shoulder injury.

SOMEWHERE out there, there will be a German translation for the phrase ‘perfect storm.’

It’s strange; we got rid of the Qualifiers and Million Pound Game as it put too many Super League clubs in jeopardy and we didn’t want all that uncertainty over relegation.

“THE best Test match batsman I have seen” – Michael Vaughan.

There are a couple of players under pressure heading into England’s second Ashes Test – there is no doubt about that.

EVERYONE WHO loves rugby league will have been upset by the scenes in Perpignan at the weekend.

JIMMY ANDERSON – “The ICC World Test Championship is a brilliant initiative”

WAKING UP the morning after a semi-final, knowing you are not going to Wembley, is one of the worst feelings in sport.

It was the Tour de France that had everything... everything but a different outcome.

MAYBE it is my age or just my inner dweebness, but I’m really not sure what I like most – the outstanding Top Gun: Maverick trailer or Great Britain’s advert for its magnificent new jersey.

JASON ROY is the player to open for England in the Ashes for me and I am not worried about him at all.

RIGHT, guys, it’s over to you.

JUST as those childhood trips to Blackpool were all about who could be the first to spot the Tower, invariably match-day butterflies would only truly kick in on spotting a ground’s floodlights.

I REALLY don’t know where I stand on this issue of selecting Australian players for England.

ENGLAND are world champions and they will only get better.

IT has proved a memorable week for English cricket, while there was a renewed promise about Yorkshire CCC’s County Championship campaign.

YOU thought of Andrew Strauss, who tragically lost his dear wife to cancer last December and who now savoured one of the happiest and greatest days of his life.