YORKSHIRE director of professional cricket Martyn Moxon will be putting the emphasis on preparing for limited overs cricket on their pre-season tour of Barbados.

The White Rose county’s squad, expected to amount to 16 players, has arrived in the Caribbean for a trip which they have partly paid for out of their own pockets.

While they will play a two-day match between themselves this week, with the two teams supplemented by local players to make up the numbers, all of their competitive fixtures will come with the white ball.

They will take part in Twenty20 competition with Warwickshire, Essex, Derbyshire, Hampshire and a Barbados XI at the weekend before facing Warwickshire in a 40-over match next Tuesday.

Yorkshire were beaten semi-finalists in the Clydesdale Bank 40 competition last summer, but they are one of only three counties never to have reached Twenty20 Finals Day alongside Derbyshire and Worcestershire.

“The opportunity to practice and play on grass prior to the start of our season is invaluable,” said Moxon. “With the way the fixture list works, we won’t have much time at all to practice our one-day cricket once the season gets underway.

“The only time we are really going to be able to do that is when we’re away, which is quite bizarre.”

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