Matthew Hoggard grabbed career-best bowling figures of five for 28 as Yorkshire Phoenix fired out Leicestershire Foxes for only 53 before wrapping up an astonishing eight wicket victory in only 152 minutes yesterday.

It was the second worst score ever made against Yorkshire in county league cricket, the lowest total being Middlesex's 23 at Headingley in 1974.

The victory was Yorkshire's third in a row and it pushed them into second place in the Division One table to maintain their late push for the title.

Although Hoggard turned in the most devastating performance on a wretched one-day pitch, Chris Silverwood also managed career-best figures of four for 11.

Hoggard has now captured 27 wickets this season to take over the role of the country's leading wicket-taker and with three games to go needs only three more to exceed Howard Cooper's record for Yorkshire of 29 dismissals in 1975.

Hoggard, 12th man in the Headingley Test, gave the England selectors a sharp reminder that he is still around with nine hostile overs off the reel but it was not until the sixth over of the innings that the first wicket went down at 16 as he found the edge of Trevor Ward's bat for Anthony McGrath to hold on at second slip.

Vince Wells and Aftab Habib both fell in the next two overs from the dynamic Hoggard and Silverwood got in on the act when he replaced Gough and his fifth ball kept low and pinned Ben Smith lbw.

Then Darren Stevens, turning Hoggard to backward square leg, went for a single but could not beat Gavin Hamilton's direct hit on the stumps at the bowler's end and it was 36 for six when Phil DeFreitas was bowled by one from Silverwood which kept wickedly low.

Hoggard bowled Dominic Williamson and was on a hat-trick when Neil Burns edged an outswinger to Richard Blakey but Anil Kumble denied him off the first ball of the next over which he played just in front of first slip.

There was not even the hint of a recovery from stunned and bewildered Leicestershire and Silverwood completed their agony by having Kumble caught at square leg and bowling James Ormond with consecutive deliveries.

Yorkshire were positive from the start of their reply and Vic Craven hit a couple of good cover boundaries before being caught behind off Kumble's googly with the score on 27 and two runs later Michael Vaughan became another victim of low bounce, falling lbw to DeFreitas.

But Lehmann, acting-captain again in the absence of the injured David Byas, showed Leicestershire's attack no respect at all and three boundaries in one over off Kumble was just about the final straw.