IT is the moment Yorkshiremen have been dreaming of for 33 years.

White Rose skipper David Byas (left) hoists aloft cricket's County Championship trophy at Scarborough.

The club received the Lord's Taverners' Trophy from CricInfo managing director Peter Griffiths during yesterday's final game of the season against Essex at North Marine Road.

Griffiths was accompanied by CricInfo's head of marketing Andrew Hall. Also among the presentation party were Yorkshire president, Robin Smith; Yorkshire chairman, Keith Moss; ECB director of cricket operations, John Carr, and the Mayor of Scarborough, Coun. Lucy Haycock.

All 25 players who had been involved in Yorkshire winning the Championship were present except for Darren Gough.

Chief executive Chris Hassell said that Gough had been given permission to be absent so that he could attend a golf event organised for his benefit season at Sunningdale.

He was returning to Scarborough last night for an official team photograph today.

Updated: 11:58 Thursday, September 13, 2001