Yorkshire have signed Pakistan A leg-spinner, Imran Tahir, and he may play in tomorrow's LV Championship match against Warwickshire at Scarborough when fellow countryman Inzamam-ul-Hak will also debut.

Opener Joe Sayers has been axed and is playing for the Second XI in their four-day encounter with Durham at Riverside.

Tahir, 28, from Lahore, comes in as cover for paceman, Jason Gillespie, who leaves on Thursday to join up with Australia's contracted players at a training camp.

In addition to missing the match at North Marine Road and two NatWest Pro 40 fixtures, it now transpires that Gillespie will not be back in time for the last away Championship game of the season against title-holders, Sussex, at Hove, and it is particularly for this match that Yorkshire want Tahir on board.

The Scarborough pitch generally assists the spinners and in the Championship match at last year's festival Adil Rashid and Lawson collected all ten Middlesex second innings wickets between them and Yorkshire would probably have won if rain had not intervened.

Sussex will have leg-spin wizard, Mushtaq Ahmed, in their ranks at Hove and then in the final match of the season the incomparable Shane Warne will be leading out Hampshire at Headingley Carnegie.

Tahir has plenty of experience of English pitches, having played a few games - without much success - for Middlesex in 2003 as well as turning out for Durham and Sussex Second XIs for short spells.

Yorkshire will miss Younus Khan at Scarborough where less than a month ago he scored a double century against Kent but they are boosted by the return of England captain, Michael Vaughan, who will remain with them for the rest of the season.

Darren Gough and Jason Gillespie rolled back the years with dynamic spells of bowling as Yorkshire Phoenix beat Glamorgan Dragons by eight wickets at Cardiff last night to go top of the Second Division of the NatWest Pro40 League.

The two former Test stars were virtually unplayable with the new ball after Gough had chosen to field first on winning the toss and Glamorgan did well to recover from 50 for six to 129 for eight in the 35-overs match, although they were assisted by 24 wides

That meager total presented Yorkshire with few problems because wicketkeeper-batsman, Gerard Brophy, went on to launch a violent assault which brought him 66 off only 36 balls with a dozen fours and a six while Jacques Rudolph contributed an unbeaten 49.