Yorkshire intend to pump a further £25m into Headingley to make it one of the best cricket stadiums in the country by 2006.

Around £10m has already been spent on developments on the east and west sides of the ground and the new proposals revealed by chief executive Colin Graves will be in four phases, the first to be completed by next May.

This involves the new north east enclosure with 2,100 seats, a scoreboard and replay screen. It is on the site of the old office block and temporary seating has been installed there for today's Test match.

A new media centre over the northern sightscreen is planned for 2006 with a new three-storey pavilion on the winter shed site containing Executive Club, Taverners' Club, changing rooms and umpire facilities, board room, meeting room complex, club offices and museum.

Finally, the grandstand on the rugby side of the ground will be redeveloped to include a bank of superior seating with a modern Lord's style canopy, taking the capacity up to 20,000.

Graves said the first priority was to purchase the income streams from Headingley's owner Paul Caddick and then to buy the ground itself. Negotiations had already begun and would hopefully be concluded in a few months' time.

"The Management Board has been discussing ways of raising the money and it is our job over the next six months to see that it is done," he said.

Graves added that when the Board took over Yorkshire a year ago it inherited debts of £7m and the club was on course to lose £1.29m.

The club had since been run "on a very tight rope" and costs had been controlled dramatically with the bank loan/overdraft being reduced by £2m. A profit of between £30,000-£50,000 was anticipated at the year end.

Last year the club shop had sustained losses of £185,000 but it was now on course to deliver a profit of around £100,000 with the new cricket equipment shop making a profit of £25,000.

Graves said the redevelopments were intended to make sure that Headingley kept its Test-match status for a long time because that was what generated money for the counties.

He had spoken to ECB chief executive Tim Lamb who was most supportive about the plans.

Although Yorkshire were disappointed at losing out on the Ashes Test in 2005, Graves said he was talking to the ECB about the possibility of staging the Twenty-20 Cup final each year on the

Test ground which missed out on a Test match.