YORKSHIRE took five wickets in the afternoon session to greatly strengthened their grip on the LV= County Championship match against Durham at Scarborough.

At tea on the third day, the visitors were 220-7 - still 227 runs away from their target with only three wickets in hand.

Durham’s resistance in the early part of the session had been formidable but by the end Andrew Gale’s players were nearing their sixth successive Division One victory.

The first wicket fell in the second over after lunch when Scott Borthwick was brilliantly caught for 31 by a diving Glenn Maxwell at third slip off Liam Plunkett.

The former Durham seamer also took the next wicket to fall when Gordon Muchall, having made 15, could only fend a bouncer to keeper Andrew Hodd.

That left Durham on 143-4 but Michael Richardson and debutant Jack Burnham then added 53 for the fifth wicket before Richardson fell leg before to Tim Bresnan for 48.

Just 13 runs later, two wickets fell in the same Adil Rashid over when Ryan Pringle clipped the leg spinner to Gary Ballance at mid-wicket and Jamie Harrison was run out for nought, Gale’s throw from cover beating the batsman as he tried to regain his ground.