Yorkshire confirmed the information in a membership assertion on Friday which made no reference to his sacking. “We’re delighted Richard has agreed to develop into the top coach of our girls’s staff and we’re very happy to welcome him again to Yorkshire,” Colin Graves, the membership’s chairman, stated.
“After a radical and strong course of, Richard stood out amongst an unimaginable shortlist of candidates. By means of the entire course of it was clear Richard is the appropriate particular person to guide Yorkshire into the membership’s new chapter and take our girls’s skilled staff to the best degree.
“Richard is a confirmed developer, has a wonderful popularity, and a successful mentality as a participant and as a coach. We consider that Richard would be the excellent match for the following stage of our new and thrilling journey.”
Yorkshire will play in Tier 2 of the ECB’s revamped home construction subsequent yr, alongside Derbyshire, Glamorgan, Gloucestershire, Kent, Leicestershire, Northamptonshire, Middlesex, Sussex and Worcestershire. They may then develop into a Tier 1 county from 2026 onwards.
“It is an unimaginable honour for me to be given the chance to guide Yorkshire’s girls’s facet and it is the proudest second of my profession,” Pyrah stated. “That is an thrilling time to be concerned in girls’s cricket, following ECB’s restructure of the ladies’s skilled recreation.”