Jason Gillespie hopeful of more success with Yorkshire

By Jason Lewis

Image: Yorkshire's coach Jason Gillespie is hopeful of success across all formats this season

Jason Gillespie is plotting triumph in all three forms of the county cricket season for Yorkshire after a busy winter.

Yorkshire won the County Championship Division One title with a record points total last year, but the county failed to impress in the shorter formats.

In the Natwest T20 Blast the Yorkshire Vikings failed to progress out of the North Division, winning just five of their 14 matches.

Gillespie has been hugely successful at Yorkshire since taking the role of coach in 2011 and he told Sky Sports News HQ: "We are hopeful that we can challenge in all competitions. We know it is going to be a very tough season in all forms.

"We under achieved last year in the T20, we would like to improve on that. We made some good strides in the 50 over competition so hopefully we can build on that."

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The former Australia fast bowler has strengthened the Yorkshire squad in the build-up to the new season.

"We have signed a couple of overseas players in Kane Williamson and [Australian] Travis Head," he said. "[England all-rounder] David Willey has come up the M1 from Northants and he is a great addition to the squad.

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"I'm looking forward to seeing these lads perform well for Yorkshire."

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"We had a really good year in the Championship but we are under no illusions, it is a tough challenge but we will just have to give ourselves the very best chance," he said.

"You can only net so much indoors and we have had a pretty long lead up outside now so I think everyone is ready to get cracking."

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