SIMON Parsons is to stand down from the Yorkshire members' committee next March because he feels disillusioned with the set-up which he claims gives no powers to the four elected members and makes them ineffective.

Parsons will quit with a year of his three-year term still to run and leaving with him for similar reasons will be Sid Fielden who has decided not to seek re-election when his term expires at next year's annual meeting.

The two other elected representatives are Tony Vann and Tony Cawdry and although Cawdry says he intends to sit out his two remaining years he also is unhappy at having no role other than to report back to the four-man Management Board.

"I have already informed the Board that I will not be seeking re-election at next year's annual meeting," said Parsons.

"I am not criticising the Board but I do feel that the elected representatives on the members' committee are unable to make any positive contribution under the present system.

"I wanted to feel I had a constructive role to play but that has not turned out to be the case and there is little point, therefore, in me staying on the committee when I could be doing other things."

The members' committee was set up by the Management Board when it took control of the club two years' ago and it comprises four representatives appointed by the Board and four elected representatives.

Chief executive Colin Graves installed appointed member, Michael Ziff, as the committee's chairman but although Ziff is a highly successful businessman he is not seen as being as closely acquainted with the club's membership at grass roots level as are the elected representatives.

Meanwhile, Yorkshire's soggy season continued at Colwyn Bay yesterday when their Championship game against Glamorgan still could not get started on the second day because of further bursts of torrential rain and a saturated field.

The whole fixture is in danger of being a washout and a no-play draw would suit Glamorgan because it would preserve their 17.5 points lead over Yorkshire who are their closest challengers for the third promotion place.

Yorkshire's director of cricket David Byas has criticised the inadequate covering on the ground and he said that Matthew Wood would make reference to it in his captain's report to the England and Wales Cricket Board.

"I have no axe to grind with the Colwyn Bay club who could never have anticipated such torrential downpours during August," said Byas.

"But the only covering has consisted of three ground sheets spread across the square and there is no waterhog or similar equipment to help dry the ground out," he added.

Updated: 11:23 Thursday, August 26, 2004