Tim Bresnan confirmed as Yorkshire vice-captain

Yorkshire have confirmed 2016 player-of-the-year Tim Bresnan will be the club's vice-captain.

The 31-year-old was offered the role by newly-appointed club captain Gary Ballance and he admitted it came as something of a shock.

Yorkshire have done without a vice-captain for several years with skipper Andrew Gale - who is now the county's coach - choosing instead to receive advice from his fellow players.

"I was surprised to be asked, to be honest," said Bresnan, who is currently preparing for the climax to the Australian Big Bash competition with the Perth Scorchers.

"Gary [Ballance] phoned me and asked 'I've got to ask you something mate, would you be vice-captain for me?' and I was like 'yes, I'm over the moon'. It was a bit of a shock because we haven't really named one over the past few years.

"It just came out of the blue; I never even thought that Gaz would be having one. It does make sense though if he gets called up for internationals. I'm immensely proud and it will be great to work with him and Galey. I'll just do whatever is required of me.

"As such pretty much everyone in the team is in the senior leadership group. In the past five or six years we've just done it like a Chinese parliament.

"We've basically just talked through what was going wrong and how we were going to improve as a collective and we've done everything as a group really.

"There's never been any sort of group that has sat down separately, we've always sat down as a whole to decide which direction we're heading in."