Yorkshire 110 for 4 (Wharton 40) trail Warwickshire 147 (Hain 57, White 4-49) by 37 runs
Yorkshire's seamers made the most of favourable conditions to bowl their side into the ascendancy over Warwickshire on the opening day of their Rothesay County Championship match at Edgbaston.
Warwickshire were bowled out for 147 by an excellent collective seam-bowling display led by Jack White, supported by George Hill, Ben Cliff and Logan van Beek. Only Sam Hain's highly-skilled 57 from 97 balls kept Warwickshire from complete ruin.
Yorkshire also found batting tricky and dipped to 38 for 3 but James Wharton and Harry Brook added 63, much the biggest partnership of the day, to reassert their side's position of control.
Encouraged by some grass on the pitch, Yorkshire chose to bowl and took out Warwickshire's top three batters in the first nine overs. Their seamers were assisted by gentlemen behind the wicket with a combined 142 Test match appearances as Adam Lyth pouched Alex Davies at second slip off White, wicketkeeper Jonny Bairstow accepted Rob Yates' nick off Cliff and Harry Brook collected when Mousley edged a big drive at White to first slip.
Beau Webster drove at Hill and played on. Captain Ed Barnard perished to a shot he might like to revisit, a huge drive at a wide ball from van Beek which ended in the gloves of Bairstow.
Hain alone, of the top six, reached double-figures but his resistance was ended by a fine ball from White which was edged to first slip. Zen Malik dug in for 67 minutes but then edged Cliff to third slip.
Yorkshire maintained the pressure as Michael Booth nicked Hill behind and Jordan Thompson, facing his former team-mates, was pinned lbw by van Beek. The tenth wicket brought the biggest partnership of the innings - 30 - between Ethan Bamber and Olly Hannon-Dalby. Bamber twice smote van Beek into the Hollies Stand before falling lbw to a swinging yorker from White.
Bamber and Hannon-Dalby then got busy with the ball. The latter, recalled from his loan spell at Worcestershire in light of injuries to Chris Woakes and Keith Barker, unfurled a peach of an offcutter which Lyth edged to the keeper. Bamber trapped Finlay Bean lbw and Matt Revis fell in similar fashion to Hannon-Dalby.
That brought in Brook for his first County Championship innings for a year. Under thick cloud, in moderate light and with the pitch offering plenty, conditions could not have been much more testing, but Brook and Wharton batted positively to add 63 in 12 overs.
Wharton was caught by Yates in the cordon off Thompson, having been dropped before he had scored by the same player off Hannon-Dalby, but Brook and Bairstow avoided further damage. Brook sliced Booth for six over third man and blended play-and-misses with sweet strokes to remain unbeaten and complete a strong day for Yorkshire as they seek to continue the momentum from last week's win over Somerset.
