David Byas is expected to accept his new role with Yorkshire once his responsibilities have been more clearly defined.

And there is no question about his willingness to work in harmony with new captain and head of professional cricket Chris Adams, whose app-ointment was strongly supported by Byas himself.

Adams' title suggests that he is responsible for all professional cricket at the county club, from the Academy upwards, but the reality of the situation is that he will not have the time to deal with every strand below first-team level.

Perhaps it would have been more helpful for Yorkshire to have announced that Adams was captain and the man solely in charge of the first team, with Byas responsible for all other cricket operations.

That would have been unlikely to have upset Adams and it would most probably have satisfied Byas, who said when Adams was appointed that he was happy to give him all the support he needed.

He envisaged a similar situation to when he captained Yorkshire to the Champion-ship title in 2001 with strong backing from coach Wayne Clark and cricket chairman Bob Platt.

Yorkshire, of course, no longer have a cricket committee to take off-the-field decisions or see to other cricket matters and it is in these areas where Byas would be in charge while being constantly available to offer any support that Adams might require.

A slight re-defining by York-shire of the individual responsibilities of Adams and Byas could well resolve any doubts Byas may have about his role and result in the pair working in close harmony - which is what both men want.

It is what the club also genuinely want to happen because both chairman Colin Graves, and chief executive Stewart Regan have both publicly urged Byas to stay at Headingley.

Although Anthony McGrath has yet to clarify his future, the signs are that he is now much happier with the way the club is being run and will soon say that he wants to stay with his native county.

And Yorkshire may ann-ounce within the next week or so whether they are signing a second overseas player for next season or whether they have decided to rely solely on Pakistan batsman Younis Khan.

From 2008, each first-class county will only be able to engage one overseas player.

Meanwhile, injured England captain Michael Vaughan was overlooked for the captain of the year award as Sri Lanka's Mahela Jayawardene claimed it at the first annual ceremony in Mumbai.

Although the Yorkshire player had been sidelined through injury for the past 11 months, he was fancied for the award as the qualification period included the final four Tests of the 2005 Ashes.

Despite their Ashes success, Andrew Flintoff was the only Englishman who made the Test team of the year.

Ian Bell was named as emerging player of the year following a fine summer.