Hampshire seal Headingley win over Yorkshire

Rothesay County Championship, Division One, Headingley (day four) Hampshire 251 & 351-5 dec: Brown 103*, Lehman 92, Prest 53; Van Beek 4-85 Yorkshire 177 & 211: Hill 52, Bess 49; Abbott 6-21 Hampshire (20pts) beat Yorkshire (3pts) by 214 runs Match scorecard Kyle Abbott's seventh haul of 10 wickets or more in a first-class match helped Hampshire complete a deserved County Championship victory over Yorkshire during the fourth afternoon at Headingley. Abbott had claimed 4-49 in the first innings and recorded a superb 6-21 from 17 overs in the second as Yorkshire, set 426 to win after tea on day three, fell a long way short at 211 all out. All-rounder George Hill and captain Dom Bess posted consolatory scores of 52 and 49, but the hosts were well beaten by 214 runs.

Hampshire claimed 20 points to Yorkshire's three and bounced back superbly from their opening-round innings defeat at home to Essex. Yorkshire started day four on 65-5, needing 361 more and realistically, their only hope of a positive result was a draw. But the day's 12th ball saw 38-year-old Abbott trap Fin Bean lbw pushing forwards for 33.

Further success went to the pace of Sonny Baker, whose short ball hurried Harry Duke into a pull shot which found Eddie Jack at long-leg and that left Yorkshire at 97-7 just before midday. Baker struck Bess two nasty blows in the same over, the first on the head. Bess endured a couple more glancing blows but resisted through to early afternoon alongside Hill to delay the inevitable.

Hill reached his 50 off 86 balls in the second over of the afternoon by hoisting two sixes over long-on against Liam Dawson's left-arm spin. He was trapped lbw by Abbott not long afterwards as a 78-run partnership ended and left the score at 175-8. Bess then miscued Dawson to mid-off and the same bowler wrapped things up by bowling Ben Coad.