Gold award winner Matthew Wood expunged Geoff Boycott from the Yorkshire record books yesterday with a blistering 160 against Devon in the third round of the Cheltenham and Gloucester Trophy at sun-blessed Exmouth.

Boycott had held the county's previous highest individual score in the competition for 39 years with his memorable 146 off Surrey's attack in the 1965 Gillette Cup final at Lord's, an innings generally recognised as his finest in one-day cricket.

Bolstered by Wood's assault, Yorkshire thrashed their way to 411 for six but Devon showed they had plenty of batting ammunition themselves by reaching 278 for eight, Yorkshire still cruising through to the quarter-finals by a comfortable 132 runs.

It was a memorable day for the 2,000 spectators who saw 690 runs scored and a total of 24 sixes hit, 13 by Yorkshire and 11 by their gallant Minor Counties' opponents.

Yorkshire's was the fifth highest total by any side in the history of the competition and the first time that they had topped 400 in a limited-overs game.

Wood's effort was Yorkshire's second highest knock in one-day cricket, beaten only by Darren Lehmann's 191 against Nottinghamshire in the National League at Scarborough in 2001.

With Devon already having disposed of Leicestershire in the previous round, Yorkshire went into the game nervous of the outcome but Wood soon put minds at rest with his onslaught which lasted for a mere 124 balls and brought him 23 fours and four sixes.

Craig White departed early on when he chipped back a catch to Neil Hancock but Michael Lumb joined in the spree by helping Wood smash 144 in 20 overs before being stumped off Arul Suppiah for 77 from 62 balls with a dozen fours and a straight six.

Australian Phil Jaques rapped out 55 with six fours and two sixes off only 36 deliveries, but even this was slow compared with Anthony McGrath, who thumped an unbeaten 64 from 35 deliveries with four fours and five sixes.

McGrath was just happy to purge himself of the tensions which had built up inside him as a result of spending an idle winter with England and his robust hitting caused damage to the bodywork of several of the cars lining the ground.

After Lumb had gone, Wood put on 124 in 11 overs with Jaques and there were further brutal bursts of scoring from McGrath and Andrew Gale (43 together in three overs), McGrath and Tim Bresnan (31 in two) and McGrath and Richard Blakey (35 unbroken in three).

Devon openers Matthew Hunt and Chris Mole,with a solid 78 stand in 23 overs, paved the way for Bobby Dawson, who launched a violent assault on Andy Gray as he made his way to 50 off 25 balls with five fours and two sixes before McGrath had him caught on the cover boundary by Lumb.

McGrath emerging from the mayhem with the respectable figures of four for 56.