Cricket: New Australian signing Greg Blewett suffered the second failure of his debut match with Yorkshire when he departed in the second over of the day in the PPP Championship clash against Gloucestershire today.

Having established a comfortable first innings lead of 113 yesterday, thanks to the all-round exploits of Gavin Hamilton, Yorkshire resumed on 14 without loss .

But Blewett managed to add only three to his overnight score before he was caught behind by Jack Russell as Jon Lewis got a ball to seam away from him.

With rain already affecting other matches and spreading north, York-shire were keen to make progress but skipper David Byas was fortunate to survive his second ball from Lewis which spiralled off the shoulder of his bat and over the top of the slips for four.

Byas quickly got into double figures but it was turning into a disappointing game for Michael Vaughan as well as Blewett.

The England A captain also fell victim to Lewis when he shuffled across his stumps and was pinned lbw for three, making Yorkshire 32 for two.

Matthew Wood was greeted with a painful blow on the thigh by Lewis but Byas steered Smith to the third man boundary. Lewis, however, remained the dangerman and it was quite a while before Wood managed a legside single to get off the mark.

But Yorkshire to hit more trouble when Byas was caught and bowled by Lewis as they slipped to 41 for three.

Yorkshire were yesterday put into a commanding position by Hamilton who first knocked up his career best score of 81 not out with ten boundaries and then shattered Gloucester-shire after a solid start by snatching four wickets for two runs in 16 deliveries.

From 50 for one, Gloucestershire slumped to 65 for six and were in danger of following on until Matt Windows and Jack Russell briefly revived their fortunes.

Craig White came on to polish off the tail and they were all out for 169 in 42.2 overs.

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