Yorkshire Cricket by David Warner

Darren Gough is making good progress with his hand injury and hopes to be able to tell the England selectors he is fit for the third Test against South Africa which begins at Old Trafford next Thursday.

Gough had a further X-ray yesterday on the finger he broke while batting in the first Test at Edgbaston and this showed the wound to be healing well.

He was having nets today and tomorrow and if he comes through without any reaction will play for Yorkshire in their three-day match against Cambridge University, starting at Headingley on Saturday.

Also making his comeback in that game will be Craig White who has had a second injection to try to cure the back pain which has stopped him from bowling.

"We are hoping that this latest injection will have located the problem and that Craig will be able to get in some bowling during the match," said Yorkshire's director of coaching, Martyn Moxon.

Yorkshire's young fast bowlers were much too hot for Devon to handle at Exmouth yesterday where the Minor Counties' side were sent packing for just 80 in 28.3 overs and Yorkshire charged through to the second round of the NatWest Trophy by nine wickets. They will now be away to the winners of the Lancashire v Sussex match which was due to resume at Old Trafford today.

Heavy morning rain cleared in time for a start to be made after an early lunch and rampant Yorkshire were all done and dusted before the tea interval, the match lasting for only 210 minutes.

With Devon just as eager as Yorkshire to get the game over in the day, Peter Roebuck was happy to let his side bat first when he won the toss, but only Roebuck himself and former Somerset batsman, Nick Folland, managed to get into double figures as Yorkshire bowled with great venom on a lively pitch.

Man-of-the-match Paul Hutchison, Ryan Sidebottom and Gavin Hamilton each picked up three wickets on their NatWest debuts with Chris Silverwood, the only capped member of the quartet, getting into the act late on by dismissing Roebuck, who was last out for 22.

Yorkshire preferred batsman Matthew Wood to left-arm spinner Richard Stemp which meant that Michael Vaughan and Darren Lehmann would have had to share some overs if the innings had run its course, but in the event the two part-time slow bowlers were not required.

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