It's a cracking fixture imo but the way the Clubs twitter feed was bigging up a "Big H/T announcement that they think everyone will be excited about" brought a muted response amongst many at the game who were clearly expecting a signing to be announced.
Putting all that aside though i'm looking forward to seeing the Kiwis down at HQ irrespective of who we can or will select.

Golding

Briscoe
Moon
Ablett
Handley

Sutcliffe
Mcguire

Singleton
Aiton
JP
Delaney
JJB
Sinfield

Achurch
Kylie
Yates
Burrow

If we assume Hardaker,Hall,Ward and Cutbertson get selected for England then our team lining up to face the Kiwis could look something like this.Certainly capable of keeping it competetive however plenty of time between now and then and the likes of Ablett,Briscoe and Singleton are also more than capable of making the England squad.

Has a signing ever been announced at a game?

No I didn't think it'd be a signing, I thought it might have been either Burrow leaving or some announcement about the stadium.

Joel 'Cantona' Tomkins was

After reading stuff about the stadium on here the last couple of weeks, I thought it was going to be something about redevelopment on some part(s) of it. Plus as well, I noticed new (?) floodlights at the cricket stadium that looked like massive clovers. Unless my observation skills are lacking and they have been there for ages..?

Gary Connolly

I'd like to say I'm surprised at some of the negativity expressed on this thread. I really would.

It should be a great night it is always good to see world class players live

Lets hope the likes of Ware johnson hargreaves etc play

Quote: Jamie101 "After reading stuff about the stadium on here the last couple of weeks, I thought it was going to be something about redevelopment on some part(s) of it. Plus as well, I noticed new (?) floodlights at the cricket stadium that looked like massive clovers. Unless my observation skills are lacking and they have been there for ages..?'" They are new, to enable evening/night games. And they are supposed to be shaped after this i2.examiner.co.uk/incoming/artic ... 697727.jpg

Quote: Jamie101 "After reading stuff about the stadium on here the last couple of weeks, I thought it was going to be something about redevelopment on some part(s) of it. Plus as well, I noticed new (?) floodlights at the cricket stadium that looked like massive clovers. Unless my observation skills are lacking and they have been there for ages..?'" They are new, to enable evening/night games. And they are supposed to be shaped after this i2.examiner.co.uk/incoming/artic ... 697727.jpg

That is good. My observational skills are ok then!

I'm sure they are supposed to be white roses

That's exactly what they are supposed to represent though they do bear a remarkable resemblance to a shamrock.
I think they look very good just a wee bit different from the bog standard designs.
This year T20 games are nearly all on a Friday evening starting at 7pm or so' to maximise attendance, hence the necessity for them.
Furthermore going forward all test match grounds must have them so they had to be installed.
YCCC may well have received a grant towards the cost from the ECB.
On the subject of floodlights I was amazed at such a cost conscious club as Leeds to see our floodlights on yesterday afternoon.
Hard to imagine they could be needed on such a sunny afternoon, even more so when the game wasn't being televised.
Tut tut Gary, wasting money unnecessarily, that's not like you.

Approx £1.8m cost for the floodlights, of which £700k came from an ECB grant I believe.

not sure what kind of team either side will put out but I can't wait. just got my tickets