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Yorkshire set for crisis meeting

Stewart Regan, Yorkshire's chief executive, has decided to meet players and management next week to get to the bottom of the county's poor start to the season

Cricinfo staff
23-Jun-2006


Jason Gillespie has not impressed Yorkshire's boss © Martin Williamson
Stewart Regan, Yorkshire's chief executive, has decided to meet players and management next week to get to the bottom of the county's poor start to the season. Yorkshire's solitary win and four losses from seven Championship matches have them placed at the bottom of Division One, a factor that clearly displeased Regan.
"We've got one of the strongest sides in the division but people with lots of ability have not delivered," he told The Yorkshire Post. "I won't accept the situation simply continuing as it is."
Regan, who joined the club in March, said he was working on a strategy to prevent Yorkshire from being relegated back to Division Two. "I won't accept blame being passed around from one person to another. The buck stops with me and we have to take action," he conceded. "As things stand, we are staring relegation in the face, and that would affect not only our standing in a cricketing sense, but also our commercial performance, and that is a situation I am not prepared to contemplate."
He was also mindful of the financial consequences of relegation. "I'm not saying that we have to sack the manager, or that we have to sack the captain, or whatever. We need to be rational about things and view things objectively," Regan said. "At the same time, we seem to be making the same mistakes week-in, week-out, and we need to turn things around sooner rather than later."
Critical of Yorkshire's bowling, Regan added: "Jason Gillespie has struggled to make an impression, Deon Kruis has not yet fired as he did last year, and too often with the bat we have lost early wickets."