TRENT BRIDGE

(final day of four: Nottinghamshire won toss)

Nottinghamshire (18pts) beat Yorkshire (3) by 112 runs

Trent Bridge (final day of four; Nottinghamshire won toss): Nottinghamshire 213 (68 overs, MJ Wood 58, R Naved-ul-Hasan 3-63) and 350 (118.2 overs, BM Shafayat 62, MA Wagh 60, SR Patel 60, GP Swann 57, AU Rashid 4-96); Yorkshire 161 (59.2 overs, CE Shreck 5-58, MA Ealham 3-17) and 290 (A Lyth 132, MA Ealham 7-59)

Lunch

Adam Lyth, the Whitby-born, 20-year-old left-hander in only his seventh championship match, led a Yorkshire bid to escape with an heroic draw, or even repeat their feat in 2005 of scoring more than 400 to win, but he lost two more partners through the morning.

Having arrived at two for one after tea on Thursday and seen his side slump to 75 for four, Lyth, pulling, cutting and driving confidently, made his way to a careeer-best, unbeaten 86 by lunch when Yorkshire, with four wickets standing, needed to bat another 64 overs, or score 210 more runs, to complete what would be an astounding revival.

Gerry Brophy, losing his off stump to swing, was out after 30 minutes for 28, giving Mark Ealham his first four-wicket haul in exactly one year. Adil Rashid, showing precisely the right attitude, took 30 balls and 43 minutes to get off the mark but, in sudden confusion over whether to play or leave a Graeme Swann off-break, he was leg-before for 21, nine balls before the interval.

Tea

The prospect of something truly historic had just began to emerge in the afternoon when, in the space of two balls, five minutes from tea, both Lyth, for a wonderful 132, and Tim Bresnan, for 36, fell leg-before to inswing. It carried the tally of such dismissals to 13 in the match.

Lyth became only the third batsman to get beyond 90 in the championship at Trent Bridge this season and nervelessly proceeded to a maiden first-class century in his 13th innings at this level. Surviving a massive, united and convincing leg-before shout against Graeme Swann on 96, he unhurriedly advanced with a two and a couple of singles to the landmark in 218 balls.

At the other end, in a seventh-wicket stand of 93 through 30 overs, was Bresnan, a man who, uniquely, played in all three of the previous matches when Yorkshire made 400 in the fourth innings, each since May, 2005. But the belated success for Andre Adams and Ealham, claiming his first five-wicket bag since August, 2006, effectively ended the slim chance that Yorkshire would make the highest total to win batting last at Trent Bridge for 83 years.

At tea, with two wickets standing and Rana Naved-ul-Hassan perhaps able to bat only in adversity after pinching a nerve in his neck on Thursday, another 114 runs were needed. More realistically, Yorkshire had 34 further overs to survive.

Close

It was Ealham who had the last word. With his best figures since June, 1996 he removed Deon Kruis for six and Matthew Hoggard for no score in four balls after tea, both men leg-before to inswing, to return seven for 59. It meant that in a headlong final decline, the last four Yorkshire wickets tumbled for seven runs in 17 balls, three to the match-winning Ealham, and the final leg-before count reached 15.