Cricket club goes into bat for charity
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Yorkshire Cricket club goes into bat for charity
The two-year link-up was given a colourful launch with a balloon release event on the pitch at Headingley Carnegie Cricket Ground in Leeds.
Familiar faces in attendance included Yorkshire coach Jason Gillespie, captain Andrew Gale, first-team players Steven Patterson and Richard Pyrah and president Dickie Bird.
Yorkshire Cancer Research’s chief executive, Charles Rowett, said: “Sport, and in particular cricket, within Yorkshire is an incredibly powerful way to raise awareness of this devastating disease.”