NOMINATIONS for the two vacancies which will arise for elected representatives on Yorkshire's members' committee must reach Headingley by noon on New Year's Eve.

Long-serving committee member Sid Fielden will not seek re-election when his term of office ends at the club's annual meeting on March 12 and Simon Parsons is standing down because he feels the committee has not been given any powers.

Parsons said recently that he has seen the committee described as "the pampered poodles of the management board" and he had found himself unable to disagree with that phrase.

Both Fielden and Parsons were elected to the new members' committee in 2003 but Fielden's official involvement with Yorkshire dates back to December, 1981, when he gained a landslide by-election victory to become Doncaster's representative on the general committee.

In those days, Fielden figured prominently in the battle to keep Geoff Boycott at Yorkshire but he later became better known for his tireless work on the public relations committee. He became its chairman in 1986 and remained so until leaving the general committee in 1998 before being re-elected the following year.

His decision to stand down at the age of 71, however, does not mean he will be retiring from the Headingley scene. He has already accepted chairman Robin Smith's invitation to go on hosting some of Yorkshire's home matches.

Nomination forms for the election can be obtained from Sheila Beckett at the club's offices at Headingley.

Updated: 09:16 Saturday, December 18, 2004