The webcam has been installed at the Rugby Stand End and obviously points across the turf (or lack of it at the moment) to where the new Carnegie Pavilion will become evident very soon. We will record the images as a time lag photography process to be speeded up at the end of the project.

You can find the webcam feed at http://www.yorkshireccc.com/webcam/index.html

It will also appear on the homepage amongst other things (which will hopefully excite you) in the next couple of days.

Just checked.
It's currently dark in Leeds - and there's a mysterious hooded figure prowling on the boundary. Could be the ghost of Tony Panero come back to look for some valuable merchandise he buried in the outfield.......

"It will also appear on the homepage amongst other things (which will hopefully excite you) in the next couple of days."

Reading that back it doesn't sound right! The webcam feed will replace the block where the video adverts play on the homepage. In that same block, as and when needed, we have other plans which will be announced shortly and which will debut in Abu Dhabi.

There is a benefit match tonight at the Rhinos for Jamie Jones-Buchanan which is why there will be people around the cricket ground. I am really looking forward to seeing the turf go down and the Pavilion start to go up overthe next few months. Well done James!

We've added a direct link to the YCCC webcam on the WRF menu bar.

GREAT idea, James!

I fear this could become addictive.
Until the new turf is laid could I suggest that the club considers hiring out Headingley as a location for any film crew seeking to make a drama about life at The Somme during the first World War.....
Is this REALLY going to be ready in time for the season - how scary....

I am sure there are several options if Headingley is not ready for start of season and some of them are sure to please those further away from the city of Leeds.

Scarborough or heaven help us Sheffield, Harrogate, Hull, Bradford and Middlesbrough could all host home games if given enough warning - not sure about the New Rover Ground the seconds use on outskirts of Leeds?

Not sure if we could play away games instead of home games as our comments about the Worcts flooded games a few years back may come back to haunt us.

We could cover the outfield in sand and pretend we are playing beach cricket so Goughy can come out of retirement in view of his beach cricket experience down under.

We could buy some more time and persuade the ECB that the season cannot start until the IPL is finished so that all the counties can compete on an even playing field (unlike Headingley currently is) with their full squads.

We could do what some grounds elsewhere do and ship in a wicket from elsewhere - think this happens at some grounds where they play rugny primarily in NZ

Weird to see Headingley without the Winter Shed. It's like a smile with a tooth missing.
I know we get a bit backward-looking, but there was quite a lot of history tied up in that glorified shed with seats on the top. George Hirst's legendary coaching sessions ...

I never realised that Steve C was of an age to remember G Hirst's coaching sessions

I was there.
I taught Wilfred to bat.

Sounds a great name for a one-act play. But who will write it? Steve....

But I'm already busy writing an opera about the life and times of John West - the former Yorkshire cricketer who founded a multi-national sea-food empire and lived to be 144 years old......
It's going to be called The Immortal King of the Crab Sticks..

I assume its a comedy!

"I taught Wilfred to bat"

A great name for a Yorkshire cricket blog.

The play could be set in a ...... shed!

You are sharp, Steve.

And you've corrected your mistake...!

From the pavillion end it will be Bob the Builder bowling to JC Bamford.....

He 'digs' that one in short and the batsmen 'shovels' it round the corner to fine leg for a single.... a very 'agricultural' stroke

Yorkshire look like they are getting 'bogged' down.....

Mr Buttler - how much of the football stand seating behind the bowler's arm will be roped off to accommodate the camera?

Not sure what the panic is. I assume the square is perfectly protected and has been all winter?
A team of professionals could have the mud looking like a cricket ground within a day. If need be I guess they could even play on it this weekend.

A terrific innovation. As an overseas supporter it will be quite wonderful to "drop in" from time-to-time and watch the progress, or just reconnect with the club in a more tangible way.

Hopefully, it will be left on during the season, so we can get a real flavour of how the team looks.

Ambrose (Sydney, Australia)

i see the bloke doing the outfield has nicely parked his van in view of the web cam to get some free advertising

Well done Mr Pugh-Lewis or is it Messrs Pugh and Lewis as surely Pugh-Lewis is too posh a name for the dirty task of laying new sods of turf?

But where's Barney? Mc Grew, Cuthbert or Diggle?

& why has Steve C forgotten Grub? ... We'll end up with a Trumpton Riot if we're not careful .... but then I always was Half Man Half Biscuit

Grub was ineligible because the ECB hadn't recieved his paperwork in time....

not sure they will be doing much work on the ground today - other than snowball fight....

today the webcam appears to show some work being done for the first time in a fortnight after the recent snow at Headingley.

Just waiting for the big truck to come along now and drop off a few tonnes of sand to help bed in the new turf.....

there is plenty of spare sand on the outfield in antigua.

Just thinking, if we do happen to make a mess of relaying the ground and it all goes badly wrong will we get a test match at Scarborough two days later?

Well, at least the snow has disappeared; but they've got a lot to do. Gotta' love the "Tykecam."

You'd have to say that it isn't exactly a hive of activity. Any signs of human activity are very few and far between...

it must be a furtive secret undercover mission to relay the outfield and all the work goes on at night time when none of us are watching and to stop the Lancastrian and Antiguan spies from watching how to do it properly