Superb seam and swing bowling by Pudsey Congs paceman Naveed Rana ul-Hassan brought the Bradford League a crushing victory by 173 runs over the Yorkshire League at the Scarborough Festival yesterday.

The game, staged to mark the Bradford League's centenary, proved to be such an outstanding success that Pudsey St Lawrence president and former Yorkshire chairman Keith Moss has promised to sponsor it again next year and it is hoped that it will become a regular part of the Festival calendar.

Put in, the Bradford League racked up a respectable 252 for nine off their 50 overs but a dynamic opening burst by Rana meant the Yorkshire League were never in the hunt and they were shot out for 79 in 36.2 overs.

The Pakistani paceman soon stamped his mark on the innings by grabbing three wickets in 15 balls at a cost of two runs, and he later returned to polish off the tail with consecutive deliveries to finish with five for 17.

The Yorkshire League simply had no answer to Pudsey Congs' trio of bowlers because Neil Gill was first to strike with the new ball and after Rana had caused his early damage, left-arm spinner Glen Roberts chipped in with three for 14 in his ten-over spell.

The only batsman to offer any resistance was Castleford's Andrew Bourke who decided to go on the attack.

He hit 38 with seven boundaries before being smartly stumped by Hanging Heaton's Ishmail Dawood off Roberts.

With low cloud around and dampness in the air, conditions were not easy when the Bradford League went out to bat, but East Bierley's Richard Gould played some fine strokes through the covers in making 38 with six fours.

But he then became one of three victims for Castleford's Richard Wilkinson, a coach at the Yorkshire Indoor School at Headingley. Barbar Butt - another Pudsey Congs player - increased the tempo with three mighty sixes over mid-wicket while rattling up 47 from 73 balls.

But in going for another big hit he struck the first delivery from Wilkinson after lunch to Scarborough's Damon Gormley on the square-leg boundary.

The Bradford League continued to prosper as Dawood and skipper Matthew Doidge, another Congs man, lashed 66 together in seven overs before Dawood was bowled by Cleethorpes' Andrew Carrington for the game's top score of 61 from 73 balls with seven fours.

Dawood, who went on to claim three catches as well as his stumping, would have been a strong candidate for the Bradford League man-of-the-match award but for Rana's brilliance.

The Yorkshire League man-of-the-match award was picked up by Hull's Steve Sargeant for his three wickets for 45 runs from ten overs.