Yorkshire’s LV=County Championship title challenge is back on track - after a performance to remember against Nottinghamshire.

It saw them to a five-wicket victory inside three days.

The win means that they have closed the gap on their table-topping opponents to only seven points, ahead of the final round of fixtures next week, with Somerset also in the running for the division one title with a five point lead over Yorkshire.

If the Tykes do go on and win the championship for the first time since 2001, then they can look back on their day three showing at Trent Bridge as a major reason why they were successful.

After an excellent bowling display on day three had seen Nottinghamshire set them 209 to win, a superb display of attacking batting then led them home.

“It was a phenomenal effort,” said captain Andrew Gale.

“We now believe we can win the title. In two of the last three games we have beaten the league leaders and the reigning champions away from home, so we will go into the Kent game full of confidence."

Jonathan Bairstow was again the man to perform under pressure for Yorkshire, making an unbeaten 63 to guide the side to victory with an innings that again belied his tender age.

It means the 20 year-old has now been at the crease for the end of four successful run chases this season in the championship, and had he not performed so admirably then the outcome could have been very different.

Despite cruising to 70 for no loss in front of a partisan home crowd, four quick wickets put the game in the balance.

It accounted for all of the Tykes top order, but when Darren Pattinson was taken out of the Nottinghamshire attack, after picking up three of the wickets, Bairstow and Gerard Brophy began to shine.

In just 89 balls they added 97 runs to the total, to rescue Yorkshire from a troublesome looking score of 95-4, to a commanding position of 192-4.

That left Yorkshire needing only 17 runs for victory and even though Brophy was dismissed for 41, Bairstow was then joined at the crease by Bradford-born Adil Rashid to make sure there would be no late drama.

It was apt that he would hit the winning runs to set off exuberant celebrations in the Yorkshire dressing room.

This was a job well done.