County Championship: Warwickshire wrap up big win over Yorkshire

Warwickshire completed an emphatic demolition of Yorkshire by 377 runs on the fourth morning of a memorable County Championship match at Edgbaston.

Yorkshire resumed on the last day on 98-5, chasing an unlikely 549 for victory, and were bowled out for 171 as Ethan Bamber took 4-50and Olly Hannon-Dalby 3-33.

Matthew Revis resisted for 41 but, well though the home seamers bowled, to be dismissed in 53.1 overs on a pitch on which Warwickshire eased to 553-6 the previous day was a poor effort.

Warwickshire banked their second highest ever Championship win by a margin of runs, just one shy of the 378-run victory over Northamptonshire at Edgbaston in 1927 when seamer Tom Durnell, playing only his second match, took 7-29.

Having ended the first day well behind in the game, Ed Barnard’s side steamrollered the White Rose for the next two and a half and will head into another home game, against Glamorgan, on Friday full of belief that a serious challenge for the title could lay ahead.

Yorkshire, meanwhile, will prepare to face Surrey at Headingley with much to ponder after their encouraging win over Somerset last week was followed by such a defeat in Birmingham.

The visitors entered the last day requiring either something miraculous from their lower order or rotten weather. The latter let them down – after some early morning rain, the clouds relented and play started just 15 minutes late.

Warwickshire quickly resumed their happy alliance, displayed throughout this match, of testing seam-bowling supported by excellent slip-catching.

Revis and Logan van Beek edged Hannon-Dalby to second slip where Rob Yates took his fifth and sixth catches of the match and George Hill was taken by Sam Hain at first off Bamber.

Hannon-Dalby needed no assistance from fielders when he removed Ben Cliff’s leg-stump to take his side to the brink of victory, which arrived when Jordan Thompson struck with his first ball, edged to wicketkeeper Alex Davies by Jack White.