Yorkshire duly completed a crushing victory by an innings and 100 runs over a lacklustre Hampshire side at Headingley yesterday.

It was Yorkshire's second consecutive innings win in the Championship from the start of the season and they have dropped only one point on the way out of a maximum 40.

Pitch liaison officer Mike Denness carried out an examination of the strip on Saturday after umpires Tony Clarkson and Neil Mallender had recommended a visit following the fall of 14 wickets on the first day.

But Denness's report to the ECB gave the pitch the all clear and removed the threat of Yorkshire being deducted any points.

It would have been hard to make out a strong case for such action after Yorkshire had scored 399 in their first innings and although the pitch was far from perfect, the main reason for the game being finished before lunch on the third day was because of Yorkshire's vast superiority in all departments.

Hampshire were already as good as beaten when they resumed yesterday on 84 for four in their second innings, still trailing by 214, and they lost their last six wickets in under two hours for the addition of 114 runs.

Will Kendall was their only batsman to show any real resistance and he remained unbeaten on 78 off 158 balls with 11 boundaries after the exiled Peter Hartley had entertained his fans with a breezy 22 off 20 deliveries, despite going into the game with a broken finger.

If Hartley travelled south in reasonable spirits, the same cannot be said for Shane Warne whose nightmare start to his Championship career continues.

He bagged a pair in his second consecutive match and after being out three times to the third delivery he went one better yesterday when he sliced his second ball from Gavin Hamilton for Matthew Wood to grab a high catch in the gully.

Darren Gough and Craig White both had a reasonable warm-up for this week's Test by bowling together for the first hour of the morning's play, White soon knocking down Alex Morris's off-stump and Gough having John Stephenson caught at short leg by Victor Craven.

Hamilton accounted for Warne and Hartley after ending Dimitri Mascarenhas's brief burst of aggression and in between James Middlebrook celebrated his birthday weekend by claiming the wicket of Shaun Udal who was also snapped up close in by Craven.

Most of Yorkshire's players had an outstanding match and none more so than Hamilton who on Saturday scored his maiden century, his sparkling 125 coming off 206 balls with 15 fours and a six.

"It was a great relief to make it after getting so close on several occasions," said Hamilton.

"Ideally, I would like to be batting a bit higher up the order than No 8 but I am in a very strong side and I will just have to go on scoring the runs and see what happens."

Yorkshire have been forced into making changes to their squad for their Championship visit to Derby on Wednesday.

Replacing Gough and White, who are now in the England camp, will be Richard Harden, who scored a century for the second team last week after recovering from a broken hand, and 17-year-old paceman Gary Ramsden who will be making his debut if selected.

Reserve wicketkeeper Simon Guy also joins the party as a possible replacement for Richard Blakey who has cracked a bone in the ring finger of his right hand but is expected to play.

Yorkshire (v Derbyshire) from: Byas, Craven, Blakey, Lehmann, Wood, Harden, Fellows, Hamilton, Middlebrook, Sidebottom, Hoggard, Ramsden, Guy.