Hants profit from Yorkshire collapse

Imran Tahir and James Tomlinson each took four wickets as Hampshire raced to an unexpected three-day win over Yorkshire at the Rose Bowl in the LV County Championship.

Yorkshire were all out for 107 in their second innings, losing all 10 wickets for 62 to a mixture of smart spin bowling from Tahir and some indeterminate batting.

After the sides had each scored 236 in their first innings, Hampshire were left with a target of 108 for their second Division One win of the season and their first at home.

Michael Carberry and Michael Brown knocked off the runs without being parted inside 26 overs.

Carberry reached his half-century with his ninth boundary from 78 balls and got the winning runs soon afterwards as Yorkshire capitulated.

James Tomlinson's four wickets took him past 50 for the season © Getty Images

Buy this photo

Yorkshire began the third day soundly enough with Andrew Gale and Chris Taylor putting on 45 without alarms for the first wicket but then it all started to go wrong with the introduction of Pakistani Tahir.

Tahir dismissed Gale and Anthony McGrath with successive deliveries and Yorkshire never recovered.

First-innings top scorer Jacques Rudolph went with the score on 52, and Adam Lyth was dismissed without a run being added to start the collapse.

Tomlinson, extracting swing and movement with his left-arm seamers, finished with 4-31 and Tahir took 4-37 as Yorkshire's challenge died with a whimper.

Tahir has now taken 22 wickets in the three matches since he joined Hampshire while Tomlinson became the first player in Division One to take 50 first-class wickets for the season.

Rana Naved-ul-Hasan dealt some belligerent blows in his 22 before he was last out, slicing David Balcombe to backward point where Carberry held the catch.

Last man Deon Kruis lifted Tahir for six but it was too little to make any difference to the outcome.

Yorkshire employed the spin of Adil Rashid, who took seven wickets in the Hampshire first innings, in a bid to cause similar havoc but it did not work.

Carberry and Brown quickly established control as Hampshire collected 18 vital points in their attempt to stave off relegation while Yorkshire are now dragged into difficulty as a result of their heavy defeat.

The only player to derive any satisfaction from the Yorkshire second-innings debacle was opening batsman Taylor, who was seventh out at 85 after a grim battle for survival.

Taylor held on for 64 balls for his 23, striking only two boundaries, and any chance of an escape disappeared with his exit.