Having sampled Yorkshire first team cricket this year with a surprise Champion-ship debut against Leicestershire at Headingley, 19-year-old Spen Victoria product Chris Elstub has now made another important career move.
The Dewsbury-born fast bowler, now playing for the Academy and Yorkshire Seconds, will be among the first intake of students at the Bradford and Leeds Universities' ECB-backed Centre of Excellence when it opens in September.
Elstub - one of 65 applicants which the Centre has so far received - will be able to do a degree course at Bradford University as well as further his cricket career under the eye of the Centre's newly appointed coach, former Yorkshire batsman Kevin Sharp.
Elstub was drafted into the Yorkshire team during an injury crisis in late May and he showed plenty of promise in the rain-hit game with Leicester-shire by claiming the wicket of Darren Stevens in figures of one for 36 in 13 overs.
His only other first team outing so far was for Yorkshire Phoenix when they lost by three wickets to Leicester-shire Foxes, in which he bowled a creditable first spell but suffered when brought back with the Foxes scenting victory, being unable to break Ben Smith and Aftab Habib's match-winning stand.
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