Explosive bowling by Paul Hutchison and Chris Silver-wood fired out Warwickshire for 84 at Headingley yesterday and had them following on 324 runs behind.

And it was only a fighting century from acting captain Nick Knight which denied Yorkshire a storming win inside three days.

Warwickshire closed on 190 for seven, still 134 runs behind, and they effectively have eight wickets down because Amurag Singh is ill in hospital with a leg infection and taking no part in the match.

Although Yorkshire now have no realistic chance of becoming champions they are finishing off the summer in a fighting mood.

It was Hutchison who was the chief destroyer in Warwick-shire's first innings with season's best figures of six for 25 as he and Silverwood bowled unchanged through the 23.3 overs needed to wreck the batting.

But the hero of the day still had to be 21-year-old Matthew Wood who just had time to complete a thrilling double century in the morning before Yorkshire declared with maximum batting bonus points on 408 for six.

Wood's 200 not out contained 23 sparkling fours and came off 339 balls in six hours and 52 minutes.

He and Gavin Hamilton advanced their stand rapidly from the start of the day with Hamilton being the more cavalier and the sixth wicket partnership had galloped on to 142 in 30 overs when Hamilton was out for 78 from 104 deliveries with eight fours, his sixth half-century in his last 13 championship knocks.

Hutchison started Warwick-shire's slide by getting Knight caught at third slip by James Middlebrook without scoring and Silverwood continued it by finding the inside edge to have Mark Wagh taken by Richard Blakey.

But the real slide got underway after lunch as Warwickshire, without Singh, lost their last seven wickets in ten overs for 27 runs, the wickets tumbling to a combination of good bowling and poor shots.

David Hemp's stumps were wrecked by Hutchison.

Then Trevor Penney wafted outside off-stump at Silverwood and Neil Smith became the first of three victims at second slip for David Byas.

Silverwood ended up with three for 40 and ten minutes later he was sharing the new ball again with Hutchison who quickly bowled Wagh to send him trudging back to the pavilion for the second time in the space of one hour and 43 minutes of play.

Knight then led a bold counter attack by Warwickshire as Hamilton and Matthew Hoggard took over the bowling but at 61 Hamilton surprised Hemp with extra pace and he was snapped up by Byas.

Penney accompanied Knight to his half-century and helped him add 54 before Hamilton, bowling superbly, floated one away which Penney could not avoid.

The first wicket in the match to fall to spin came when Dougie Brown pushed forward at Middlebrook and Byas twice palmed up the edge for Blakey to complete the catch.

Then Hoggard, after a disappointing opening spell, got in on the act by smashing down the stumps of Smith and Keith Piper with consecutive deliveries while Tim Munton, send in as nightwatchman ahead of Ashley Giles, knew little about the hat-trick ball which just missed bowling him.

Hoggard had Munton caught down the legside by Blakey off the last scheduled ball of the day but Yorkshire claimed the extra half hour and Knight went on to a fighting century off 182 balls with 14 fours, play ending with ten deliveries remaining when lengthening shadows worked their way across the pitch.

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