YORKSHIRE'S hopes of avenging yesterday's 210-run mauling by Durham in tomorrow's crucial totesport League match at Scarborough were boosted yesterday by Australia making Ian Harvey available.

The all-rounder has been playing in a one-day international tournament in Holland and was not expected to be available again because of the ICC Champions Trophy, starting next week.

Yorkshire's Director of Cricket David Byas said: "We are very grateful to Australia for their co-operation. It's a pity England don't adopt the same attitude."

Yorkshire will be without Michael Vaughan and Anthony McGrath because of England one-day involvement, while Durham are unable to call on Paul Collingwood and Stephen Harmison.

The winners will move into the third promotion spot then have to wait to see whether Nottinghamshire can overhaul them in the final match, which is against Somerset at Taunton on Wednesday afternoon.

Tomorrow's losers will finish sixth, which will mean they are among the bottom four first-class counties in the competition and will therefore come into next season's C and G Trophy at the second round stage with a home tie against Derbyshire.

Durham will again bring in Nicky Peng and Gary Pratt for James Lowe and Gordon Muchall, while Andrew Pratt is also added to the squad for the noon start.

If he plays, it will be an opportunity for Pratt senior to impress Yorkshire, who are said to be interested in his services.

He has currently been ousted from Durham's championship line-up by Phil Mustard, whose improved keeping saw him concede only one bye in the three days against Yorkshire.

The Tykes may, however, decide to keep faith with Ismail Dawood, who scored his first half-century for the club yesterday and was one of only four batsmen to show any application.

His previous best was 46 not out and he would have been unbeaten in his last seven innings, of which three were in the totesport League, had he not been last out for 74 just before 6pm. Yorkshire were all out for 290.

Durham will have a 17th successive Saturday off today after a much-improved all-round performance saw them complete a three-day win. It was only their second championship victory of the season and it virtually ended Yorkshire's hopes of promotion.

On another glorious day Yorkshire again subsided with a mixture of faint hearts and poor judgement after Durham declared on 375 for nine and set them a target of 501.

Yorkshire had raced to 98 without loss in early afternoon before the fall of Phil Jaques in the 18th over ended any remote chance of a successful run chase. Spinners Gareth Breese and Graeme Bridge shared the wickets until Liam Plunkett took the final one.

Breese's figures of five for 110 gave him a match analysis of ten for 151 and he became the first Durham bowler for four years to take ten wickets in a match. The last was Melvyn Betts with ten for 88 against Derbyshire at Darlington.

It was all very satisfying for ex-Yorkshire coach Martyn Moxon, registering his third win in the last four championship derbies.

But Yorkshire's effort was another insult to the pitch, which was easily good enough to sustain a four-day contest and allowed Bridge to enjoy himself with both bat and ball yesterday.

Granted he had the freedom to go for his shots when he went in with Durham 428 ahead, but the ease with which he scored 46 not out off 35 balls showed the pitch in its true light.

Gavin Hamilton and Mustard had few problems in the first hour in stretching their sixth wicket stand to 75 before Mustard fell for 26 to a much slower ball from Steve Kirby.

Mustard had been unusually restrained but he tried to hit this one over mid-wicket and was deceived into lobbing a catch to mid-off.

Hamilton cut off-spinner Richard Dawson for his sixth four to reach his first 50 for Durham off 91 balls. He was playing comfortably enough to press on towards three figures without any recourse to extravagant strokes, but in the over after Mustard's exit he tried to reverse sweep Dawson and was bowled for 58.

Three wickets had gone down for three runs when Plunkett dabbled at the next ball and edged to Dawood.

Despite these two gifts, Dawson finished with three for 115 while Mark Lawson had one for 84 in 15 overs after Bridge set about him.

Favouring the sweep, Bridge hit successive balls from the leg-spinner for six, two, four, four and had five others fours in his sprightly knock.

Neil Killeen contributed 20 to their stand of 69 before edging a drive at Matthew Hoggard to Dawood to prompt the declaration.

Yorkshire's highest fourth innings total to win a game is 331 for eight, but there seemed every prospect that they would make a spirited stab at their target when Jaques and Michael Wood got them off to a flying start against Plunkett and Killeen.

Bowling too short, Plunkett conceded 44 runs in six overs, while Killeen went for 29 off five. Jaques had made 53 off 50 balls with 11 fours when he cut at Breese and edged to Marcus North at slip via Mustard's gloves.

Six overs later Wood drove the off-spinner tamely to deepish mid-on and it was as good as over, with the only resistance coming from Dawood and Richard Pyrah.

Joe Sayers went for 17 when he edged Breese to Mustard, then Michael Lumb hit the first ball he faced for four and swept at the second, only to be given out caught off bat and pad off Bridge. Lumb, who has had a disappointing season, clearly didn't like the decision.

Tim Bresnan's tame dismissal, lbw trying to sweep Bridge, came at the height of Yorkshire's surrender before Mark Lawson hung around for a while then offered Breese a return catch to complete his ten-wicket haul.

Breese went into the match with 14 championship wickets at an average of 65.64 and he can be sure that his efforts at Scarborough, where he also made 35 and 68, will have secured him an extension of his one-year contract.

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