Nottinghamshire completed only their fifth First-Class victory at Headingley and their first since 2011 by dodging the showers for long enough to secure success by 163 runs.

Overnight rain had threatened to put a halt to the visitors' charge but it stopped in time for play to get under way on time.

Yorkshire dragged the match into the afternoon but their spirit was broken by a prolonged spell of fast bowling by Dillon Pennington, who took five for 105.

Returning from injury, the pace ace bowled over 40 overs in his first match back from injury.

“It’s been a bit of a spike to the system,” he laughed. “But as Liam (Patterson-White) said last week, ‘you do what you have to do for the team.’

“Mo (Abbas) and Brett (Hutton) also bowled a lot of overs but we got our rewards in the end.

“I felt really good in this game, I leaked a few (runs) but my rhythm was up and I felt ok.”

Pennington’s haul of wickets was the second time he’d achieved the feat in Nottinghamshire colours and the third time in his career. Four of his dismissals came by way of catches from wicketkeeper Kyle Verreynne.

“I struggle to get past the four-wicket mark usually but it was a nice reward in the end," he reflected.

"Kyle was outstanding. It was a hard track to keep on with the ball going up and down at times but he did really well.”

With dark clouds around the ground throughout the four hours of play – and with the odd spot of rain in the air – the threat of an interruption always seemed a possibility.

“We tried to put it out of our minds for as long as we could,” he said. “The pitch got a bit better, so it was about trusting that we’d get the wickets in the end.

“We’ve done really well over the last seven weeks, the boys have put in one heck of a shift and we’re all on a real high going into the T20s now, which is exciting.

“That will be a different style of cricket under a different captain and then we’ll come back to this next month with a couple of games with the Kookaburra ball.”

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