The Red Rose meets the White on Wednesday 9th January when Lancashire's Gary Yates will be crossing the Pennines to join us . Educated at Manchester Grammar School, where England captain Michael Atherton was a classmate , Gary has spent his entire career with the Red Rose county and was awarded a well-deserved benefit in 2005 . 'Gary has been a loyal servant to Lancashire County Cricket Club, said then chairman Jack Simmons. [He] is just the sort of cricketer benefits were designed for. ' Playing alongside the likes of Atherton, Andrew Flintoff, Wasim Akram, John Crawley and Neil Fairbrother, Gary's economical off-spin and reliable lower order batting made him a key member of Lancashire's all-conquering one-day side of the mid-1990s, winners of the B&H Cup in 1995 and 1996, the Natwest Trophy in 1996 and 1998, and the AXA League title in 1998 and 1999. In fact, in company with wicket-keeper Warren Hegg, it was Gary who guided his
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