YORKSHIRE needed only 82 minutes to wrap up victory by an innings and 47 runs against Durham today and leapfrog their hosts to move 11 points clear at the top of the LV= County Championship with a game in hand.

The defending champions came into the final day at Chester-le-Street needing six more wickets to seal an innings win, and they did it with the minimum of fuss, with Jack Brooks finishing as the pick of the bowlers with 4-66.

Durham's hopes appeared to rest solely on the shoulders of unbeaten centurion Mark Stoneman, but he was dismissed for 131 shortly after the second new ball was taken.

The visitors made the breakthrough in the day's fifth over, with Steve Patterson striking with his first ball when Gordon Muchall played very late at an inswinger which trimmed his off stump to depart for 26.

That made it 251-5 in the 75th over and the new ball, taken after 82 overs, did the rest.

Opener Stoneman, who progressed in ones and twos, was lbw on the front foot to Ryan Sidebottom, whose next ball was edged just wide of third slip by John Hastings.

But the big Australian also fell lbw to an inswinger two overs later, then Ryan Pringle hooked Brooks straight to long-leg after making 22.

Brooks finished things off by having Jamie Harrison lbw and a flailing Chris Rushworth caught behind as Durham were all out for 302 as they failed to make Yorkshire bat again.