It was a difficult time for the northern county cricket club.  Financial hubris, encouraged by the ECB, had seen it pile a high risk project onto a debt laden structure and, when the project failed, there was insufficient cash to pay its burgeoning debts.  It had to turn to the ECB for financing. Well you know the rest of the story, the ECB demands a high price for the bail out, the county is taken into special measures, penalised with relegation to the second division, swingeing points deductions for the next two seasons, a reduced salary cap etc.  A very public humiliation. Except none of that happened, because this isn't the story of Durham's financial difficulties, but Yorkshire County Cricket Club's (YCCC).  (Do you see what I did there). What had brought Yorkshire to the brink of financial ruin was the staging, in 2010, of a Headingley test match between Australia and Pakistan.  You can see the logic, Pakistan supporting Yorkshire men and wome...