Yorkshire Women appoint Pyrah as head coach

Richard Pyrah, who was sacked successful 2021 amid nan Yorkshire racism scandal, has been named arsenic nan county's caller women's caput coach.

The 41-year-old was recovered to person utilized racist slurs by a Cricket Discipline Commission sheet in March 2023.

Pyrah, who won a declare of unfair dismissal against nan nine successful 2022, was fined £2,500 and banned from coaching for 2 weeks by nan Cricket Discipline Commission successful May 2023.

The 41-year-old spent 10 years playing for Yorkshire and took 296 wickets crossed each formats of nan game.

He went connected to activity arsenic their bowling coach and coached Yorkshire Women's Super League Twenty20 squad earlier being sacked.

"It's an unthinkable honour for maine to beryllium fixed nan opportunity to lead Yorkshire's women broadside and it's nan proudest infinitesimal of my career," Pyrah, who will return up his caller domiciled adjacent month, told nan nine website., external

"This is an breathtaking clip to beryllium progressive successful women's cricket, pursuing nan ECB's restructure of nan women's master game."

Yorkshire Women will subordinate Derbyshire, Glamorgan, Gloucestershire, Kent, Leicestershire, Northamptonshire, Middlesex, Sussex and Worcestershire successful Tier 2 adjacent season, pinch nan 10 counties playing 50-over and 20-over cricket.

Yorkshire will past go a Tier 1 nine for nan 2026 season.