Yorkshire cruise past Cup holders

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Headingley Carnegie: Yorkshire 186-5 beat Durham 185 by five wickets

Match scorecard

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Gerard Brophy watches as Ben Harmison's lofts a catch

Darren Gough rolled back the years by dismissing three current international batsmen as Yorkshire beat Durham in the Friends Provident Trophy at Headingley.

Gough removed Phil Mustard (26), Paul Collingwood (2) and Neil McKenzie (1) in figures of 3-31 as Durham were bowled out for 185 in the 46th over.

Steve Harmison took three wickets but Durham - the Cup holders - crashed to defeat, their third in four matches.

Michael Vaughan (22) prodded a short ball off Graham Onions to cover point.

The England Test captain perished when well set for the fifth time in as many innings for his county.

And he does not have any further opportunity to find form ahead of the Test series against New Zealand.

He has managed 95 runs in three Championship innings and 38 in two one-day matches for Yorkshire.

Left-hander Andrew Gale's high octane 68 was the key performance from the Yorkshire batsmen.

He was particularly severe on England discard Harmison, whose opening two overs cost 22 runs.

Harmison, who on Sunday said he would retire the day he believed the international door was closed to him, hit back with late wickets.

But the damage was already done.

Durham's best batsman had been Kyle Coetzer, whose classy effort of 61 included a lofted straight six off Tim Bresnan.