Yorkshire gave an encouraging performance in their 50-over friendly at Old Trafford yesterday when disciplined bowling by their young seamers earned them victory by 24 runs over Lancashire.

This was Yorkshire's first full day of cricket, whereas Lancashire last week returned from a pre-season tour of the Caribbean with a 100 per cent winning record from their six matches. But the Tykes were still more than a match for their Red Rose rivals.

The start of the game was delayed half-an-hour while ice from the covers was shovelled into buckets and dumped over the boundary but the cool sunshine still attracted a crowd of around 1,000.

Put in to bat, Yorkshire grafted their way to a respectable 200 for eight with openers Matthew Wood and Joe Sayers making it into the 30s with sensible batting.

Richard Dawson top-scored with 35 and Anthony McGrath, wicketkeeper Gerard Brophy and Tim Bresnan had useful knocks before Australian-born fast bowler, Mitchell Claydon, rounded off the innings with a last-ball six.

The pick of Lancashire's attack was former Yorkshire left-arm spinner, Gary Keedy, who finished with four for 32 off his ten overs before leaving the match ill with tonsilitis.

John Blain soon dismissed Iain Sutcliffe to a low catch by Yorkshire Brophy, but it was Claydon who attracted most attention in a genuinely hostile opening spell which was rewarded with two prize scalps off consecutive balls before he was rested.

He uprooted captain Mark Chilton's middle stump and then found the edge of Stuart Law's bat for Wood to hold on to a sensational catch diving to his left at second slip.

Yorkshire had 13 players involved in the match - with only 11 on the field at any one time - and when Claydon was rested there was a particularly fine spell from Ajmal Shahzad, who was unlucky not to pick up a wicket.

Nick Thornicroft, ignored by Yorkshire last year, held a sharp return catch to send back Luke Sutton and had Glen Chapple holing out to Michael Lumb at long-off. Andrew Crook and Dominic Cork rallied Lancashire with a 65 stand in 12 overs before Bresnan polished off the tail.

Victory came with 13 balls to spare and it helped to lay a ghost for Yorkshire, who ended last season with a record eight consecutive Sunday League defeats.

Yorkshire: M.J. Wood lbw Smith 32, J.J. Sayers c Sutton b Hogg 31, A McGrath lbw b Keedy 21, M.J. Lumb c Cork b Keedy 5, C White b Keedy 9, G.L. Brophy c Smith b Keedy 24, R.J.K. Dawson c Keedy b Newby 35, T.T. Bresnan c Chilton b Newby 20, M.E. Claydon not out 9, J.A.R. Blain not out 2, extras 12, total (8 wkts) 200.

Bowling: Cork 10-1-36-0, Newby 7-0-34-2, Chapple 7-0-30-0, Smith 8-1-33-1, Hogg 8-1-30-1, Keedy 10-0-32-4.

Lancashire: M.J. Chilton b Claydon 17, I.J. Sutcliffe c Brophy b Blain 12, P.J. Horton b Patterson 20, S.G. Law c Wood b Claydon 0, A.R.Crook c Wood b Bresnan 41, L.D. Sutton c&b Thornicroft 5, G. Chapple c Lumb b Thornicroft 15, D. Cork b Dawson 46, K.W. Hogg, b Bresnan 6, T.C. Smith not out 2, O.J. Newby b Bresnan 0, extras 12, total 176.

Bowling: Blain 7-0-36-1, Claydon 8-1-18-2, Bresnan 9.5-1-36-3, Shahzad 4-0-12-0, Patterson 6-1-10-0, Thornicroft 5-0-23-2, Dawson 8-036-1.