Yorkshire managed only ten overs batting against Hampshire on a wretched day at Headingley yesterday but they were sufficient for them to reach three landmarks.

Craig White completed a cleanly struck half-century before being dismissed for a fluent 67 and Yorkshire then claimed their first batting bonus point and also avoided the follow on.

But at 207 for five, with a possible six overs remaining, bad light brought the players off for the day.

A wet ground and then a burst of torrential rain, meant play could not start until 3.30pm and then only two overs were possible before there was a further delay but White managed to move off his overnight 47 with a nicely placed stroke to the mid-wicket boundary off Chris Tremlett.

After that short stretch of play, one ball was sent down on the resumption before bad light had them off again but the final eight-over session began in brief sunshine and White celebrated by cutting Tremlett for four.

Michael Lumb added a single to his Saturday score of 14 when he was lucky not to get hit by a ball from Alan Mullally which exploded off the pitch and missed his head by inches.

White, who had batted with rare patience from the start of Yorkshire's reply to Hampshire's first innings 354, showed the quality of his strokeplay by driving Tremlett through extra cover for four and then swinging him to the boundary at long leg to take Yorkshire to 201 for four.

Six runs later he went back to a ball from Dimitri Mascarenhas which kept low and bowled him after he had faced 157 balls with 11 boundaries, putting on a valuable 71 in 22 overs for the fifth wicket with Lumb.

Richard Blakey came in but before a run had been added the light became too bad to continue.

Yorkshire should end their three-match losing sequence with a draw today but many problems remain, including the desperate form of opener Matthew Wood in the Championship.

He was out on Saturday for his third successive duck this season at Headingley and in five Championship innings has so far made only 19 runs.

* Also heading for stalemate is the Trent Bridge clash between Notts and Northants.

Rain washed out virtually the whole of day three, with the hosts able to extend their score from 184 for seven to 207 for eight still 70 runs adrift.