Bradley Parker and Matthew Hoggard are the latest casualties to go on Yorkshire's lengthening list of sick or injured players.

Parker broke a bone in his left wrist when he crashed into a wall at the indoor school at Headingley during a training session, and Hoggard is recovering from a minor stomach operation.

The full extent of the damage to Parker's wrist will be assessed when he has the pot taken off a week tomorrow, but he is expected to be fit for the start of the new season, as is young pace bowler Hoggard.

Also at various stages of recovery after operations are Darren Gough, Martyn Moxon and Craig White. Gough is due to visit the specialist for a report on his knee operation next Thursday and if all goes well he will then go to Lilleshall in the hope of building himself up to a level of fitness where he can join England in the West Indies.

Yorkshire chief executive Chris Hassell told a meeting of Central District members in Bradford last night that doubts still existed over Australian Darren Lehmann's availability this season, and he confirmed that cricket chairman Bob Platt had made contingency plans in case of Lehmann's absence but he refused to elaborate.

Former Yorkshire and England captain Brian Close said he would prefer Yorkshire to give their own youngsters the chance to fill the spot instead.

After Simon Parsons had said he was concerned about certain voting procedures leading up to last year's annual meeting, he was told by Hassell that Scarborough committee representative Robert Hilliam had been wrong to provide North District members with a copied proxy form suggesting which way they should vote and he gave an assurance that a similar thing would not happen again.

Parsons said the resolution to stay at the outgrounds was only defeated by a small majority and he hoped that Hilliam's actions had not influenced the result.

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