RICH Pyrah says Yorkshire are ideally placed for a dominant ten years in county cricket, thus ensuring they are regular visitors to Buckingham Palace.

Members of the White Rose squad were presented to HRH The Duke of Edinburgh yesterday afternoon as part of the annual Lord’s Taverners’ LV= County Championship title celebrations.

Yorkshire’s women, including England stars Lauren Winfield, Katherine Brunt and Danielle Hazell, were also presented to the Duke as their 2015 Championship win was honoured.

Pyrah, who called time on his playing career last month to take up an immediate job on the Headingley coaching staff, played a sporadic part in the county’s successive Championship title triumphs.

But he insists Andrew Gale and company are not satisfied with the double, or even next year’s aim - a hat-trick of titles.

“We’re going to have transitions over the next few years. Some of the senior lads are finishing, so it’s important that we continue to feed the younger lads in at the right time,” said the former all-rounder.

“We don’t just want to be winning the Championship for two or three years, we want to have a successful ten years now. We’ve definitely got the potential to do that.

“It’s exciting to be involved with the lads now.”

Pyrah, 32, is currently studying for his Level Four coaching badge at Gloucester University and the ECB’s National Performance Centre in Loughborough.

“The plan is to try and get me as much experience as possible - experience with the senior lads and the younger lads,” he said of his new job.

“One week I might be with the first team and the next I could be with the under-14s. I think Dizzy (Jason Gillespie) is quite keen to get me involved with the one-dayers and Twenty20s as well. It’s an exciting role.”

Pyrah is one of a host of ex-Yorkshire players currently involved in the backroom staff at Headingley, including Gillespie, Martyn Moxon, Anthony McGrath and Ian Fisher.

In the recent past, the likes of Richard Dawson, Craig White, Steve Oldham and Kevin Sharp have all been involved.

“We’ve worked so hard to get the Academy brought through the right way, the Yorkshire way,” added Pyrah. “I think it’s important that your coaches understand that so that the players coming through the system know what it takes to be a Yorkshire player.

“It’s important to have that knowledge from former players of how we want our players to perform and act.”