Australian Phil Jaques plundered a rousing 173 against Glamorgan at Headingley yesterday and became the first Yorkshire batsman to complete 1,000 first class runs.

When a third stoppage for bad light ended play with eight overs remaining, Yorkshire had raced to 332 for five from 82 overs in their final match of the season.

They were not as well placed as they might have been because they were 287 for one before England fast bowler, Simon Jones, weighed in with a three-wicket burst.

Winning the toss, Yorkshire wasted no time in racking up the runs as their new opening combination of Jaques and Joe Sayers scored freely, with Jaques taking on the dominant role.

He needed 64 runs to make it to the 1,000 mark in only his 18th innings and he galloped to his 50 off 45 balls with seven boundaries. Not long afterwards he hooked Darren Thomas for four, the stroke taking him to 65 as well as putting 100 on the board.

Jaques survived a stumping chance to Mark Wallace off Robert Croft on 79 but it was a rare false stroke and he was still going well when Sayers moved to his 50 from 103 balls with six fours.

The pair opened together for the first time against Somerset at Taunton last week, making 162 and 69, and by lunch their latest stand had brought them 142 off only 36 overs.

Jaques' third century of the season and his first at Headingley came off 127 balls with 16 fours but the partnership was broken at 171, Sayers moving across his stumps and being lbw to Croft for 56, his third half-century in five first team matches.

Jaques went serenely on and Michael Lumb also found the good form that has deserted him of late, the second wicket pair adding 116 in 23 overs.

Lumb produced one remarkable shot by scooping Darren Thomas for six over square leg, but the end came for Jaques when he tried to force Jones through the off side and played into his stumps after facing 197 balls and striking 29 fours.

Matthew Wood arrived at the crease wanting 78 for his own 1,000 but the acting captain found himself in the middle of a hostile spell from Jones and he soon edged a good ball outside off-stump to the wicketkeeper.

There was just time before tea for Lumb to go to his first 50 in ten innings but soon after the interval he nicked a ball from Jones which left him for Wallace to take another catch.

The slump continued with Richard Pyrah edging Croft to Matthew Elliott at slip but Ismail Dawood and Richard Dawson held on until the third stoppage for bad light ended the day's play.

Umpire Graham Burgess was unable to continue after lunch because of feeling unwell and Minor Counties umpire Brian Harrison officiated at square leg until tea, when Richard Kettleborough arrived from Sheffield to share duties with Allan Jones.