Veteran seamer Mark Ealham was the hero as Nottinghamshire returned to the top of Championship Division One with a 112-run win over Yorkshire.

Notts won by bowling Yorkshire out for 290, but until two wickets fell on the stroke of tea Adam Lyth had the hosts sweating with a fine maiden century.

Ealham, a month shy of his 39th birthday, took 7-59 in 26.4 overs to clinch the win and 10-76 in all.

Lyth batted for more than six hours until Andre Adams had him lbw for 132.

With Tim Bresnan (36) immediately following at the hands of Ealham, also lbw after a seventh-wicket stand of 93, survival for one further session was no longer a feasible ambition for Yorkshire.

For some time, Lyth's 267-ball innings had, particularly once Bresnan emerged as such a sturdy partner, turned home frustration into evident disquiet.

He looks innocuous, and you'd have said he wasn't doing anything special today - and that's probably what makes him so potent Graeme Swann on Notts team-mate Mark Ealham

Though Yorkshire had begun the day in a fairly desperate position, on 107-4 needing 403 to win, Lyth had other ideas.

The 20-year-old left-hander from Whitby extended his stand with Gerard Brophy to 64 until the latter played down the wrong line to Ealham and had his off stump knocked back.

Adil Rashid featured in another handy half-century stand, his determination clearly proven as he took 30 balls to get off the mark.

But several pleasing shots later, Rashid paid the price for failing to come to terms with a Graeme Swann off-break from round the wicket - and became yet another lbw departure.

From 193-6 at lunch, however, Lyth and Bresnan simply would not go quietly.

Lyth drove Paul Franks three times to the extra-cover boundary in one over when the second new ball was taken.

Finally, after hitting 19 fours in all and resisting for so long, Lyth was defeated by a delivery that might have just pitched on leg stump.

But the batsman made his disbelief at the decision obvious as he dragged himself away, swishing his bat as he did so.

After Ealham had added the scalp of Bresnan, he quickly cleaned up the tail too. In all, 15 wickets in the match were the result of lbw verdicts.

Swann said of Ealham afterwards: "He's just bowled brilliantly for us today.

"They always say you can't buy experience, and that is certainly the case.

"He's got 20 years' worth, and then all the experience of his dad [ex-Kent batsman Alan] as well, in first-class cricket.

"He looks innocuous, and you'd have said he wasn't doing anything special today - and that's probably what makes him so potent."