Tim Bresnan grabbed the first three Warwickshire wickets for five runs in the space of 13 balls on the opening day of an incident-packed Championship match at Scarborough yesterday before being awarded his Yorkshire cap which was handed to him by captain Craig White.

With Jason Gillespie then continuing his recent dynamic form, Warwickshire slumped to 122 for nine but eventually reached 201 through a tenth-wicket stand of 79 between Heath Streak and last man Paul Harris.

Yorkshire continued to stamp their mark on the game and by close of play had made 122 for two, with opener Joe Sayers unbeaten on 63.

Injuries to Darren Lehmann and Mitch Claydon meant Yorkshire were able to give Championship debuts to paceman Steve Patterson and 18-year-old batsman and leg-spinner Adil Rashid and both went on to pick up a wicket after Warwickshire had decided to bat first on winning the toss.

The young duo will long remember taking the field if only because of the bizarre start to the game. A swirling sea fret kept sweeping across the ground and blotting out passages of play in the opening overs and there were short interruptions to the action when mystery voices from the loudspeaker system kept booming out, adding to the ghostly scene.

By the time the voices, the mist and the sounds of a foghorn had melted away, Warwickshire openers Ian Westwood and Mark Wagh had moved the score on comfortably to 49 without loss but the introduction of Bresnan dramatically halted the visitors' progress.

Seaming the ball beautifully from the Trafalgar Square end, Bresnan had Wagh caught at second slip by Anthony McGrath just two balls after a similar edge had been put down at first slip by Michael Lumb.

Jonathan Trott smacked a wide ball to White at point and in the same over Bresnan moved one the other way to have left-hander Westwood, also neatly taken by McGrath.

Gillespie proved just as lethal as Bresnan when he replaced him, blasting out the next three batsmen in 21 deliveries for three runs.

Warwickshire were 85 for six at lunch and their demised continued after the interval, Dougie Brown presenting Patterson with his first wicket by flicking him high to Andrew Gale on the mid-wicket boundary before Tim Groenewald slashed Gillespie to Sayers.

Neil Carter was brilliantly run out second ball by Deon Kruis, the left-hander playing to wide mid-off and going for a single but Kruis hit the only stump he could see with the batsman well out of his ground.

At 122 for nine in only the 43rd over, Warwickshire seemed finished but they were thrown a lifeline by Streak and Harris, whose 79 together was Warwickshire's highest last-wicket stand at North Marine Road.

It took the late introduction of Rashid put an end to the spree by trapping Harris lbw attempting to sweep, leaving Streak unbeaten on 68 from 100 balls with ten fours.

Yorkshire continued to stay on top as White and Sayers gave them a 73 start before White was dismissed by Brown for 28 but Sayers went on to complete his second consecutive half-century from 64 deliveries with 11 nicely timed boundaries.

Anthony McGrath edged Carter to the wicketkeeper to make it 115 for two but nightwatchman Gillespie calmly saw out the remainder of the day with Sayers.