Gloucestershire will have both centurions from this year’s Big Bash League in their ranks this season after signing hard-hitting batsman Peter Handscomb as their second overseas player for 2015.
Richard Dawson, 34, the former Yorkshire, Gloucestershire and England off-spinner, has been appointed as the new head coach at Gloucestershire with immediate effect.
Yorkshire claimed their first County Championship crown in 13 years, and only their second in 44 years, as they beat Nottinghamshire by an innings and 152 runs at Trent Bridge.
Richard Dawson has become the third former Yorkshire player to join the club’s coaching staff this winter after being appointed as their new second XI coach to replace Sri Lanka national coach Paul Farbrace.
