Day Two
Yorkshire v Derbyshire
LV County Championship
 

Yorkshire have still got an outside chance of winning their County Championship match after a strong response to Derbyshire's first-innings 475 and Chesney Hughes's maiden double century.

Derbyshire's left-handed opener posted a superb unbeaten 270 to be the cornerstone of the visitors' imposing effort and write himself into the record books.

Adam Lyth (69) and Joe Root, unbeaten on 75 off 111 balls, then scored half-centuries to help the hosts close on 164-1 from 45 overs, a deficit of 311.

Yorkshire will need to bat the whole of today's third day and probably into tomorrow before putting the pressure on with the ball.

Hughes batted for just over nine hours, falling only five runs short of Derbyshire's highest individual score in their first-class history.

The 22-year-old posted the highest score by anyone carrying their bat in the Championship since 1935, and is now tied fifth on list of highest first-class scorers at Headingley, alongside names such as Don Bradman, John Edrich and Darren Lehmann having been dropped on 70 during day one.

He faced 415 balls and hit 40 fours and three sixes, scoring 99 of his runs yesterday.

There was also a milestone for Adil Rashid, who claimed his 300th first-class wicket on the way to 3-122 from 30 overs, trapping former team-mate David Wainwright lbw as he attempted to sweep.

Tim Bresnan, Liam Plunkett and Steve Patterson all took two wickets apiece in the innings, while Jack Brooks struck once.

Lyth and Root then shared a first-wicket stand of 126 either side of tea, playing some eye-catching strokes and looking in no trouble in excellent batting conditions. Lyth brought up his first Championship 50 off 68 balls and Root off 77 to back up his match-winning 182 against Durham on Saturday at the first opportunity.

But the former gave his wicket away when driving loosely at Groenewald in the 33rd over, and was caught at second slip.

Mark Arthur will take up his new as chief executive at Headingley on Tuesday having held similar posts with Nottinghamshire County Cricket Club and Nottingham Forest since the mid-1990s.

Arthur arrives at Headingley having been sacked by the new Kuwaiti owners of Forest in January alongside two other members of the admin staff. Yorkshire's last full-time chief executive was Stewart Regan, who left midway through 2010 to join the Scottish FA.

Colin Graves, who changed his title from chairman to executive chairman last year to fill the void left by Regan, will revert to chairman.

SCORECARD

Yorkshire v Derbyshire
At Headingley Carnegie.
Overnight: Derbyshire 302-4 (C F Hughes
171 no, W L Madsen 93).
Derbyshire First Innings
C F Hughes not out ..........................270
D J Redfern c Lyth b Bresnan ...............14
D J Wainwright lbw b A U Rashid ........18
J L Clare lbw b Patterson ..................... 5
T Poynton b Plunkett ..........................27
A P Palladino b Brooks .......................18
T D Groenewald lbw b A U Rashid ...... 0
Extras (b16 lb5) .......................21
Total (142 overs) ....................475
Fall: 1-10 2-268 3-275 4-279 5-302 6-
383 7-388 8-441 9-474
Bowling: Bresnan 30-5-103-2. Brooks 26-
10-63-1. Plunkett 28-5-86-2. Patterson 26-
6-70-2. A U Rashid 30-4-122-3. Root 2-0-
10-0.
Yorkshire First Innings Close
A Lyth c Redfern b Groenewald ...........69
J E Root not out .................................75
P A Jaques not out .............................15
Extras (lb5) ................................5
Total 1 wkt (45 overs) ............164
Fall: 1-126
Bowling: Groenewald 14-1-52-1. Palladino
10-1-34-0. Wainwright 11-1-27-0. Durston
4-1-20-0. Clare 6-1-26-0.