HARROGATE Cricket Club whose pavilion was wrecked by a blaze four months ago has had its insurance claim met but still faces a shortfall in funding a replacement building.
The club is now awaiting details of a potential grant from the England Cricket Board (ECB) at Lord's.
Miles Rawlings, until recently chairman of the Harrogate Club in St George's Road, said they were in limbo until they heard from the ECB. "We are
drawing up plans for a new pavilion but we do not yet know where we stand and this is the most frustrating part of the process," said Mr Rawlings, now the ground and cricket chairman at the club.
The 112-year-old wooden pavilion went up in flames at the end of May and has just been demolished to make way for a new structure.
Not tracedMr Rawlings said they would like to replicate in some way the old pavilion. But it will certainly not be re-built in wood, more likely in brick.
Police were called in to investigate the late night fire and put out a plea for witnesses after three boys were seen running away near the building. But so far they have not been traced.
Although still referred to as a county ground it no longer stages first class county matches following a controversial decision by the Yorkshire administration to remove the Harrogate fixture and take it to Headingley.
Down the years, the ground has hosted championship winning matches for Yorkshire while their most famous son was Maurice Leyland.
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