It was a thrilling finish after all at Scarborough, thanks to the incompetence of the home side in chasing a none too difficult target. Only the fighting spirit of the two old warhorses, Darren Gough and Matthew Hoggard, with the bat saved Yorkshire from

Yorkshire tail cling on for draw

Yorkshire's chances of victory over Kent seemed to be slipping away twenty minutes before close of play, only for their Pakistani seamer Rana Naved to make a startling and spectacular return to form with three crucial wickets

Naved gives Yorkshire hope after Dexter ton

Everything went Yorkshire's way on the second day of the Scarborough Festival - and in truth they deserved it

Rudolph puts Yorkshire in command

A round-up from the latest Championship matches

van Jaarsveld keeps Kent afloat

Kent

Yorkshire

County Championship Division One at Scarborough, Aug 27-30 2008

Yorkshire v Kent

AW Gale

MP Vaughan

A McGrath

JA Rudolph

A Lyth

GL Brophy

AU Rashid

Naved-ul-Hasan

D Gough

MJ Hoggard

GJ Kruis

Yorkshire Innings

A Khan

RH Joseph

R McLaren

MJ Saggers

DI Stevens

JC Tredwell

Kent Bowling

Yorkshire 4th innings Partnerships

County Championship Division One

Player Name		R	B
AW Gale	lbw	9	18
MP Vaughan	caught	0	14
A McGrath	caught	3	6
JA Rudolph	bowled	24	26
A Lyth	caught	52	84
GL Brophy	caught	14	31
AU Rashid	caught	0	6
Naved-ul-Hasan	caught	12	13
D Gough	caught	32	51
MJ Hoggard	not out	4	50
GJ Kruis	not out	1	12
Extras	(b 7, lb 1, w 6, nb 10)
Total	175(9 wkts; 51 ovs)

Player Name	O	M	R	W	Econ
A Khan	12	2	32	3	2.66
RH Joseph	12	1	63	3	5.25 (5nb)
R McLaren	15	2	51	1	3.40 (4w)
MJ Saggers	5	1	6	0	1.20
DI Stevens	6	1	12	2	2.00 (1w)
JC Tredwell	1	0	3	0	3.00

TEAM	M	W	L	D	PT
Durhm	16	6	3	6	190
Notts	16	5	3	7	182
Hants	16	5	4	7	178
Somst	16	3	2	11	174
Lancs	16	5	2	8	170
Sssx	16	2	2	12	159
Yorks	16	2	5	9	159
Kent	16	4	6	6	154
Surr	16	0	5	10	124

Others

Yorkshire Innings

County Championship Division One