MICHAEL Vaughan announced his return to form at Headingley by making 82 as Yorkshire made it two wins out of two in the Friends Provident Trophy.

Tim Bresnan’s five wickets ensured Sussex fell 14 runs short of Yorkshire’s 227 at Headingley.

The stage was set for Vaughan when Yorkshire lost Andrew Gale and Jacques Rudolph with only 19 runs on the board.

Both played on. Gale chopped the ball on to middle stump and Rudolph was unfortunate to see the ball bobble back off the pitch.

Luck has not gone Vaughan’s way of late but twice early on he was fortunate to survive.

On two he showed some fancy footwork to volley the ball away from the stumps as it rebounded towards them, and shortly afterwards a thick inside edge was diverted back across his stumps.

That seemed to relax the former England captain as he began to thrash the Sussex attack to all parts on his way to 50 from 87 balls.

His celebration was a measure of the man, no punch of the air and no elaborate waving to the stands. Instead he offered only a casual nod and tip of the bat to the balcony.

From then on Vaughan cut loose and it was no surprise when he thrashed his first of two sixes straight down the ground, cannoning into the new sightscreen at the Kirkstall Lane end.

Vaughan’s luck ran out when he was controversially bowled by Robin Martin- Jenkins.

The ball seemed to flick the bails off after Vaughan played and missed, but the appeal from Matt Prior behind the stumps was halfhearted.

Replays suggested it might have been the wicketkeeper’s glove that made contact with the stumps.

Gerard Brophy then continued his outstanding form with the bat in the early season with an unbeaten 68 and Ajmal Shahzad let fly with a vital 43 off just 26 balls in the final overs.

Sussex were ahead of the run rate for the majority of their reply but Bresnan starred with the ball to swing the game back in the home side’s favour.

“I’ve been bowling well,”

he said. “I’ve been beating the bat quite a bit so the signs are good.”

“It’s important for us to get off to a good start and we think we’re capable of beating just about anyone.”

The scorecard will show that Bresnan picked up four wickets but he also weighed in with a crucial run out, whether he knew much about it or not.

“I’d gone to catch it really,” said Bresnan. “It ended up just hitting me and going back on to the stumps. It’s sort of cheating within the rules really but we’ll take it.”

Martin-Jenkins was the unfortunate man dismissed, but worryingly Bresnan had to be taken off following the incident.

“My knee flares up whenever I get hit,” he said.

“Hopefully it should be all right over the next couple of days.”

Vaughan helped seal the win, tossing the ball to Deon Kruis to run out Will Beer.