Kent v Yorkshire (County Championship) : Day Two

WHILE Yorkshire's bowlers toiled throughout a wicketless afternoon at Canterbury yesterday, Michael Vaughan ruled himself out of a comeback in next week's Roses match after admitting that he had recently suffered a slight setback in his rehabilitation programme.

Vaughan, who has temporarily left the Yorkshire camp to continue his training with England at Lord's, said it would take another week or so to get a little bit nearer playing.

Darren Lehmann was on 176 when he continued his recordbreaking innings against Kent but his body had stiffened up noticeably after his epic batting ofthe previous day and when he had reached 193 he tried to hit Simon Cook through mid-wicket and his rusty shot went straight to Rob Key at mid-on.

His effort was spread over 317 minutes and contained 25 boundaries and when he hobbled back to the pavilion he had taken his tally of Championship runs this season to exactly 500 in five innings.

Tim Bresnan remained determined until he had batted for two-and-a-half hours for his 33 at which stage he became one of four batsmen to have their stumps knocked over by medium pacer Darren Stevens, who claimed career-best figures of four for 36, and Yorkshire were all out for 382.

Kent have quality openers in Key and David Fulton and both made sure but agonisingly slow progress in the afternoon session when they added only 92 and each completed his half-century.

Their opening stand was worth 153 when Key fell and Fulton moved steadily to 75 off 207, but aimed a cut at Richard Dawson and was caught behind to bring the off-spinner his first wicket of the season from 65 overs at a cost of 257 runs. Lehmann hogged the limelight again trapping Cook lbw, Kent closing on 196 for three.

Scorecard

Durham v Middlesex at Riverside

Overnight: Durham 340-9 (J P Maher 106, P
Mustard 78; C E W Silverwood 4-85).

Durham First Innings
G Onions not out 22
(33b, 3-4s)
M L Lewis lbw b Louw 6
(played across slower ball 13b, 1-4)
Extras (lb4 w1 nb16 pens 0) 21
Total (106 overs) 348
Fall: 1-78 2-119 3-131 4-159 5-192 6-208 7-296
8-302 9-327
Bowling: Silverwood 27-4-88-4. Louw 30-6-99-2.
Betts 9-1-29-2. Richardson 18-4-71-0. Dalrymple
22-4-57-2.

Middlesex First Innings
E T Smith lbw b Onions 5
(ball kept low 12b, 1-4)
B L Hutton lbw b Thorp 9
(missed in-swinger 38b, 1-4)
O A Shah c Mustard b M L Lewis 68
(edged pull 132b, 9-4s, 1-6)
E C Joyce c Mustard b Onions 14
(glanced down leg side 50b, 1-4)
J W Dalrymple c Mustard b Onions 36
(pushed wide of off stump 38b, 6-4s, 1-6)
N R Compton b Breese 48
(heaved across line 66b, 6-4s, 2-6s)
B J Scott c Mustard b Thorp 4
(pushed at away swinger 10b, 1-4)
J Louw c Mustard b Thorp 0
(edged ball which swung and bounced 16b)
C E Silverwood not out 10
(14b, 1-6)
M M Betts b Onions 0
(yorked 1b)
A Richardson b M L Lewis 9
(missed in-swinger 15b, 2-4s)
Extras (b1 lb11 w1 nb26 pens 0) 39
Total (63.1 overs) 242
Fall: 1-11 2-54 3-101 4-137 5-149 6-161 7-215 8-
219 9-219
Bowling: M L Lewis 13.1-4-49-2. Onions 16-2-82-
4. Thorp 15-9-19-3. Gibson 13-1-66-0. Breese 6-
2-14-1.

Durham Second Innings Close
J J Lewis not out 28
(118b, 3-4s)
J P Maher lbw b Silverwood 8
(ball swung in 13b, 1-4)
G J Muchall c Hutton b Richardson 5
(edged drive to second slip 5b, 1-4)
G J Pratt not out 18
(71b, 1-4)
Extras (b6 lb13 nb2 pens 0) 21
Total 2 wkts (36 overs) 80
Fall: 1-16 2-27
Bowling: Louw 11-5-18-0. Silverwood 8-2-16-1.
Richardson 7-2-14-1. Dalrymple 7-2-11-0. Hutton
3-1-2-0.