HOSTILE bowling by the West Indies once again proved much too hot for Yorkshire's fragile batting to handle, the Tourists winning the Vodafone Challenge match at Headingley by ten wickets inside two days.

Although Yorkshire were completely out of their depth from the moment that Courtney Walsh first made an impact on the opening morning, the man-of-the-match award went to his new ball partner, Nixon McLean, for his five for 49 in the second innings to give him an overall return of seven for 82.

Another strong contender for the £500 prize was Huddersfield League paceman Lesroy Weekes who turned in a terrific performance to claim six West Indies wickets for 56 runs but Yorkshire's defeat was too crushing for the award to go a home player.

The West Indies resumed yesterday on 83 for four and Weekes soon added to the three wickets he had taken with the new ball by having Ramnaresh Sarwan scooped up at first slip by James Middlebrook.

Weekes twice returned to pick up a further wicket on each occasion but medium pacer Chris Elstub also caught the eye with excellent seam bowling which demonstrated how rapidly he is developing this season.

Elstub finished with three for 37 off 20.1 well directed overs and he rounded off the innings by trapping Wayne Phillip lbw for a patient 30. The wicketkeeper would never have got off the mark, however, if David Byas had held his early edge off Elstub at second slip.

It was a commendable effort by Yorkshire to bowl out the West Indies for 209 and restrict them to a first innings lead of 83, but hopes of a fightback were quickly dashed at Yorkshire crashed to 16 for four.

Walsh started the collapse by dismissing Simon Widdup before Corey Collymore had John Inglis and Richard Blakey caught behind in one over and Chris Gayle pulled off a sensational catch to send back Scott Richardson.

The batsman got a big top edge on a hook at McLean and as the ball spiralled towards the fine leg boundary Gayle ran back from first slip calmly to take it over his shoulder.

Once again Harrogate's Vic Craven looked the best of Yorkshire's younger set and he was just beginning to bat with confidence when McLean had him edging to third slip and Yorkshire were 30 for five.

Both of Middlebrook's scoring shots were boundaries but after surviving for 38 balls he lost his off stump to McLean and it was only Byas's patient knock of 30 which made it possible to avoid the innings defeat.

Yorkshire were still just short of doing that when the captain fell to McLean but some lusty blows from Weekes edged them in front and the West Indies were left needing 12 to win when the innings closed on 94, Paul Hutchison not being able to bat because of the shoulder injury which will keep him out of the Roses match beginning at Headingley on Friday.

Spinners Middlebrook and Ian Fisher shared the attack for Yorkshire and Gayle celebrated the impending victory by driving Middlebrook high and straight for six.

SCOREBOARD

Vodafone Challenge

Yorkshire v West Indies

(Day 2 of 3)

at Headingley

Yorkshire First Innings: 126 (C Walsh 5-19)

West Indies First Innings

Griffith lbw b Weekes 5

Gayle b Weekes 1

Hinds c Blakey b Elstub 15

Campbell b Weekes 7

Adams c Middlebrook b Elstub 27

Sarwan c Middlebrook b Weekes 32

Nagamootoo c Blakey b Weekes 40

McLean c Blakey b Fisher 6

Phillip lbw b Elstub 38

Collymore lbw b Weekes 14

Walsh not out 3

Extras b2 lb13 nb6 21

Total (87.1 overs) 209

Fall: 1-7 2-12 3-38 4-38 5-85 6-114 7-127 8-157 9-185

Bowling: Weekes 23-10-56-6 Hutchison 6.5-1-24-0 Elstub 20.1-3-37-3 Byas 4.1-1-8-0 Fisher 21-4-44-1 Middlebrook 12-4-25-0

West Indies Second Innings

Griffith not out 3

Gayle not out 7

Extras lb2 2

Total 0 wkts (5.2 overs)12

Did Not Bat: S L Campbell, W W Hinds, R R Sarwan, J C Adams, M V Nagamootoo, N A M McLean, W Phillip, C D Collymore, C A Walsh.

Bowling: Fisher 3-1-3-0 Middlebrook 2.2-1-7-0

Umpires: K Lyons and K Palmer

West Indies beat Yorkshire by 10 wkts