County Cricket: Pacemen Put on Show for Moores

England's coach, Peter Moores, will have left Headingley a contented man last night after noting the robust health of the pace attack he is likely to name next month for his first Test in control.

While Yorkshire were beating Durham by nine wickets in three days to go top of the championship, Moores was also speaking with his Test captain Michael Vaughan, but it was the wickets taken by Steve Harmison and Matthew Hoggard, the two men excused one-day duties in the Caribbean, which made the journey north worthwhile.

Both made good use of their time off and yesterday showed they are on course to peak for the first Test against West Indies in three weeks. Harmison polished off the Yorkshire innings, thrashing life out of a dull surface to end with six for 87 in 37.3 rhythmic overs, and Hoggard dominated the remainder of the morning session, an eight-over spell setting Yorkshire's victory in stone and bringing him four for 11 - three of the wickets falling in five balls.

Until yesterday Harmison's early-season form had overshadowed his England partner's, leaving Hoggard wondering aloud what needed to be done to get the new England coach's attention. Moores' selection of the 20-year-old Stuart Broad and 24-year-old Graham Onions in his first squad on Thursday appeared to be the final straw because Hoggard was fired up from the start, his 10th ball swinging away at pace to find the end of Gordon Muchall's bat.

However, it was the 11th over of the innings, Hoggard's sixth, which took the game away from Durham. The first delivery bounced and left the Durham captain, Dale Benkenstein, and flew to second slip. Ben Harmison tried to get out of the way of the second but the left-hander dragged the ball on, something Will Smith managed to repeat with the fifth delivery, which left Durham at 17 for five and no way back.

Steve Harmison managed a few words with Moores before being the last man out and the bonus for England's coach was that he also saw a few overs from a future England talent, the 19-year-old Yorkshire leg-spinner Adil Rashid.