IT’S going to be difficult picking a team on Friday. I’m trying to avoid everyone at the minute, just to give me a few days ...

BBC local radio cricket commentators and online journalists take a look at each County Championship side's prospects for the 2025 season.

The Premier Cricket club has finished last the past ... With the ball, import Ben Cliff and Musa Hussain both took 15 wickets to squeeze into the competition’s top-50 wicket-takers.

The blood would have been pumping as Bairstow walked out for the toss for only the fourth time in professional cricket - and ...

Yorkshire had barely missed fast bowler Ben Cliff, who was absent with a damaged side. That left Hampshire one run shy of a bonus point, and Brown stranded on 49 after a fine attacking innings ...

He found a willing partner in nightwatcher Ben Cliff - who had suffered an injury ... His sixth 50-plus score in first-class cricket came in 64 balls, a ball before reaching a half-century stand ...

Nightwatchman Ben Cliff stuck around for 78 balls, adding 42 with Lyth, before Kyle Abbott found his outside edge during the first over with the second new ball. It didn't blow Yorkshire open.

Lyth had 57 of those runs and much clearly depended on the 37-year-old, who had nightwatchman Ben Cliff on one for company ... for the county in Championship cricket inside the past two years.

Yorkshire look likely to play 10 of the 11 against Worcestershire that started their opening-day defeat to Hampshire.