It is hard to measure the consequences of mismanagement off the field on morale in the middle, but it must have had an impact on Yorkshire’s dismal season.Where does the revolution go? Underlying problems have to be tackled, like the relationship with the club’s landlords, Leeds Cricket and Football Athletic Co. They own the catering and advertising rights at Headingley, so the club gets nothing from the legendary beer sales on the Western Terrace. Paul Caddick, who owns the business, is keen to sell these rights to the club The old regime stubbornly refused to deal with him Graves will. “I’m more hopeful that, with Graves, there will be more commercial realism in the relationship,” says Caddick.Realism would be a new feature in Yorkshire cricket. Remember the battles over Geoff Boycott, the controversy over the proposed move out of Heading-ley to Wakefield, and the Fraud Squad investigation into the club shop. They have turned Yorkshire’s cricket politics into a mystery and an entertainment Conspiracy theories are mushrooming in Leeds.

One suggests that outgoing chairman Keith Moss, an old enemy of Smith, was allowed to take responsibility for the cost of the new stand to give him enough rope to hang himself and his committee. Another has it that an opposition will try to persuade the 29 August meeting to vote against the board’s motion – an act of anarchy intended to let the club declare bankruptcy and start all over again.But for the revolutionaries, the replacement of committees of amateurs by Graves and the management board is the best news for years. They hope that it will lead to the replacement of a committee system by a permanent board of executive managers. If the revolution succeeds new sponsors will pour money in and budgets will balance again. The point is that these revolutionaries do not represent the people They understand profit and loss They’re businessmen.. Mike Hussey, Northamptonshire’s Australian captain, registered his second triple century in consecutive seasons for his county yesterday Yet he cannot win a place in his national side.

The 27-year-old opener, who has an Australian Cricket Board contract, scored a county-record 329 not out against Essex last year. He was the first to 1,000 runs this season, and in his last match before touring South Africa with Australia A he made 310 not out against Gloucestershire at Bristol. All-rounder Graeme Swann made a career-best 183 off 211 balls with 24 fours and three sixes in a stand of 318 for the sixth wicket, allowing the visitors to declare on 746 for 9, 324 runs ahead. Gloucester-shire reached 172 for 4 with day to go of what is a largely meaningless match, both sides lying near the bottom of Division Two. But Hussey has given the Aussie selectors yet another delightful dilemma.The only county lying below those two are Durham, who crashed to a 10-wicket defeat to Glamorgan at the Riverside in less than two days. The Welsh county were bowled out for 233, giving them a lead of 109, with the 21-year-old medium-pacer Mark Davies, a product of the Durham Academy, taking 5 for 61.But after a first-wicket stand of 77, the hosts were skittled for 114.