THREE more wickets for both Jack Brooks and Glenn Maxwell, plus a couple for Steve Patterson, made it indisputably Yorkshire’s afternoon on the second day of the LV= County Championship match against Middlesex at Headingley.

Resuming on 83-2 after lunch, the visitors lost Dawid Malan - caught by Jonny Bairstow off Patterson for nine - to the sixth ball following the interval and were 212 all out at tea.

Almost all the other damage was done by the Brooks/Maxwell combination. Brooks struck first when he had Neil Dexter caught by Bairstow for a duck but the real excitement of the afternoon did not come until Maxwell came on to bowl from the Football Stand End.

James Franklin was caught at short leg by Jack Leaning for three and then John Simpson was trapped leg before to a ball which kept low for nought.

That left Middlesex on 119-6 before Ollie Rayner launched a counter-attack, hitting five fours off Maxwell before being bowled through his legs by Maxwell for 20 when trying to turn the ball to leg.

The prize wicket of Nick Compton was then taken by Brooks, edging the seamer to Leaning at third slip when he had made 70 off 171 balls.

Patterson had Toby Roland-Jones leg before for 11 and Middlesex were 188-9 - but this wicket delayed the tea interval.

The innings ended when James Harris, having made 22, hooked Brooks to long leg where Gary Ballance took the catch.

Brooks ended the innings with 5-44 and received a standing ovation from the Headingley crowd.