Yorkshire happy to make do and mend, says phlegmatic Jason Gillespie

Head coach has helped six of his County Championship-winning side into the England squad and will begin the title defence seriously down on numbers

• Mum’s tears have Adam Lyth crying over England call to tour West Indies

“Part of our job is to help these lads achieve the dream of playing for their country,” admits the Yorkshire head coach, Jason Gillespie, whose side will go into the first month of their County Championship title defence missing six players on international duty with England in the Caribbean. The price of success is a great big hole in his first team.

The three-Test series against West Indies starting on 13 April could, in theory at least, see Joe Root, Gary Ballance, Jonny Bairstow and Liam Plunkett, along with the uncapped Adil Rashid and Adam Lyth, equal the record set by the sextet of Nottinghamshire cricketers who represented England against Australia in Sydney in 1887 – the most from one county.

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