Yorkshire Cricket: Covers Off

This week's Covers Off Podcast features former Yorkshire player and coach Kevin Sharp.

The former White Rose batsmen, who now works at Worcestershire, chats through his career with Richard Pyrah and Steven Patterson, including his work with Joe Root who he coached from the England captains introduction to elite cricket at Yorkshire.

The Covers Off Podcast is back! The opening episode of the second series features two of Yorkshire's young guns, Matthew Fisher and Jordan Thompson.

The pair talk through their early years in cricket, their current training regimes under Covid-19 protocols and are quizzed by hosts Richard Pyrah and Steve Patterson on their aspirations for the season.

The Covers Off Podcast, brought to you in association with AMT Auto, swaps cricket whites for chef whites with this week’s special guest, Tommy Banks.

Banks discusses mixing his love for cooking and cricket after it was confirmed that he will be heading up the new Edrich Restaurant at Lord’s next summer.

As one of the most revered chefs in the UK, Banks tells us about his aspirations of becoming a cricketer before working as head chef at a Michelin star restaurant in York, and his love for the game, especially the White Rose.

The Yorkshireman tells us ultimate cricket tea and what is was like facing Yorkshire’s bowlers in the nets earlier this year.

The Covers Off Podcast features Yorkshire and England legend Darren Gough. A destructive bowler in his time, the former White Rose captain has forged a successful career in the media and has many a great tale to tell.

Gough reminisces with hosts Richard Pyrah and Steve Patterson, with the Barnsley-born fast bowler having played a significant role in each of their careers.

There's stories of old Yorkshire dressing rooms, a discussion around the way the game has changed over the years and a hint at the future for Gough, who is keen to get involved in cricket again soon.

The Covers Off Podcast focuses on the positive progress in women’s cricket this week, and who better to join us than Yorkshire and England’s Lauren Winfield-Hill.

Winfield-Hill chats to Bowling Coach and former Yorkshire Diamonds Head Coach Richard Pyrah and Club Captain Steven Patterson about her cricketing journey to date.

The Northern Diamonds captain talks about an eventful year, and in-particular a week that went from washed out World Cup woes to wedded bliss.

The batter also reflects on how women’s cricket will continue to grow with increased opportunities to play, hopefully culminating in more moments like at Lord’s in 2017.

The Covers Off Podcast is back following a busy August and September, and who better to review the season than First XI Coach Andrew Gale.

Richard Pyrah and Steven Patterson chat to Gale about his long-standing relationship with Yorkshire, from coming through the academy, to winning the County Championship twice as captain and coaching during a transitional period for the Club.

The trio look back on a shortened season following a disrupted start to the summer. Gale talks about the positives around the season, especially the consistency that his young side showed throughout the Bob Willis Trophy campaign.

Finally, our quick-fire questions throws up which county cricket great Gale is an awe of and no surprises who he considers the vainest at Yorkshire….

This week’s Covers Off Podcast guest is former Yorkshire coach and Australian fast bowler Jason Gillespie.

Recorded ahead of Yorkshire’s trip to Trent Bridge in the Bob Willis Trophy, ‘Dizzy’ talks to Richard Pyrah and Steven Patterson about his cricketing journey, from playing in one of the great Australian bowling line-ups in history, to coaching in England via Zimbabwe!

Gillespie spoke about his interview for the role and how Sir Geoffrey Boycott may have let it slip before being offered the role.

The trio also reminisce about the double-championship winning side, one of the great modern day Yorkshire teams.

Richard Pyrah and Steven Patterson are joined by Wayne Morton, a man who has been around the Yorkshire squad for 36 years!

Morton has experienced life in sports medicine for Yorkshire, England and Leeds Rhinos, but recalls stories as social secretary, knocking himself out in a dugout and leading an England training session whilst Ray Illingworth plays golf.

The trio discuss how cricketers have changed their approaches over the years, after making his Yorkshire professional physio debut on the day of Live Aid!

Covers Off has a new presenting line-up for episode 15, but a very familiar voice in this week’s guest, England and Yorkshire’s Jonny Bairstow.

Richard Pyrah and Steven Patterson hear how one of the World Cup heroes followed in the footsteps of his Yorkshire legend father David to become one of the most revered cricketers in world cricket.

Bairstow talks about his experience of playing at the highest level, from opening the batting with Australian rival David Warner in the IPL, to the pressures of playing an international tournament on home soil.

The batsman also talks through a seemingly unorthodox approach to batting after sleeping on the floor ahead of an innings!

This week’s Covers Off Podcast is the last for our very own Tim Bresnan, so it was only right that we invited Yorkshire Captain Steven Patterson on to wish him well.

Patterson gets his own back on Bresnan by lifting the lid on some classic stories from their time together at Yorkshire, from bamboo scaffolding to chartering flights…

It would be rude not to ask the man himself to take part in the Steven Patterson nickname game. Is he able to beat the current leader Anthony McGrath?

Finally, an emotional Bresnan thanks his team mates and Members for a fantastic 19 years with the White Rose.