{"id":287918,"date":"2023-09-07T22:35:36","date_gmt":"2023-09-07T22:35:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportstoft.com\/?p=287918"},"modified":"2023-09-07T22:35:36","modified_gmt":"2023-09-07T22:35:36","slug":"dickie-bird-royals-could-help-yorkshire-be-the-greatest-once-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportstoft.com\/%d1%81ricket\/dickie-bird-royals-could-help-yorkshire-be-the-greatest-once-again\/","title":{"rendered":"Dickie Bird: Royals could help Yorkshire be the greatest once again"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>DICKIE BIRD: Rajasthan Royals could help Yorkshire be the greatest in the world again, says iconic former club president<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Former Yorkshire president Dickie Bird has backed a Rajasthan Royals takeover<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><span>Bird thinks the Indian Premier League side could help improve things up north<\/span><\/li>\n<li><strong>The Yorkshire legend would rather the club go to the Indians than Mike Ashley\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>If the Rajasthan Royals did take Yorkshire over, they would make a very big success of it.<\/p>\n<p>The club needs someone to help them and Yorkshire would be in the right hands. I don&#8217;t think they would let the members or the Yorkshire public down.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>They could make Yorkshire strong again. Foreign ownership happens in football.\u00a0Manchester City, all the big clubs. It is happening more and more in sport.<\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t know if the members would allow it or not, but I wouldn&#8217;t have a problem with it.<\/p>\n<p>I watch the IPL and I am sure they would be able to boost the game here.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/09\/07\/22\/75187881-12493825-image-a-64_1694122003735.jpg\" height=\"423\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>Ex-Yorkshire County Cricket Club president Dickie Bird backed a Rajasthan Royals takeover<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/09\/07\/22\/75187897-12493825-image-a-65_1694122029055.jpg\" height=\"453\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>The Indian Premier League side have offered around \u00a325million to take full control at Yorkshire<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/09\/07\/22\/75187893-12493825-image-a-66_1694122078481.jpg\" height=\"345\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>Yorkshire CCC are considering selling Headingley to the former Newcastle owner Mike Ashley<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;d prefer it go to the Indians than (former Newcastle owner) Mike Ashley.<\/p>\n<p>India is a wonderful nation. I remember when we signed Sachin Tendulkar in 1992. You couldn&#8217;t wish to meet a nicer lad. He was only 19 but he played well and developed into one of the greatest of all time.<\/p>\n<p>I umpired my last Test match against India at Lord&#8217;s and I wanted it to be against India because they played the game in the right spirit.<\/p>\n<p>Whenever I umpired Tests and World Cups in India, they looked after me. I even once filmed a Pepsi advert in Mumbai where I was dressed as a judge!<\/p>\n<p>I have just been watching Yorkshire at Scarborough and everyone I spoke to didn&#8217;t know which way it was going to go.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Whatever happens, I&#8217;d like to see Yorkshire rise again to the power it used to be.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Sir Donald Bradman told me when I had lunch with him in Adelaide that Yorkshire County Cricket Club is the greatest club in the world.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>All I want is to see Yorkshire fighting for the County Championship, back to being the best club in the world.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/09\/07\/22\/75187885-12493825-image-a-67_1694122107774.jpg\" height=\"497\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>Bird, now 90, is a club legend who umpired in 66 Test matches and 69 one-day internationals<\/p>\n<p><span>Dickie Bird was speaking to David Coverdale<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/sport\/cricket\/article-12493825\/Dickie-Bird-Royals-help-Yorkshire-greatest-club.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read Full Article<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>DICKIE BIRD: Rajasthan Royals could help Yorkshire be the greatest in the world again, says iconic former club president Former Yorkshire president Dickie Bird has <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/sportstoft.com\/%d1%81ricket\/dickie-bird-royals-could-help-yorkshire-be-the-greatest-once-again\/\" title=\"Dickie Bird: Royals could help Yorkshire be the greatest once again\">[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":287917,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.8 - 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