Hants toil as Younis Khan makes history

Pakistan batsman Younis Khan made Hampshire suffer at the Rose Bowl with a magnificent double hundred for Yorkshire today.

The right-hander made 106 in the first innings and was unbeaten on 202 (290 balls) when Yorkshire captain Darren Gough declared on 439-4, with nine overs of the penultimate day remaining.

Younis Khan is the first Yorkshire batsman for eight years to score two hundreds in the same match - and the first overseas player to ever achieve the feat for the county.

He and wicketkeeper Gerard Brophy (100*) put on an unbroken fifth-wicket stand of 194 as Yorkshire looked set to maintain their 100 per cent record and extend their lead at the top of the LV County Championship.

Hampshire lost first-innings centurion Michael Brown in the sixth over of their reply to an unplayable delivery from Jason Gillespie, which flew off a length into the gloves of Brophy via the Lancastrian's outside edge (12-1).

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Nightwatchman Matthew Hoggard had provided stiff resistance as Yorkshire dominated the morning session at the Rose Bowl after resuming on 49-2.

Michael Vaughan was back on the ground and watched from the dressing room following an X-ray last night that showed he suffered an undisplaced fracture to the middle finger of his right hand.

Shane Warne and Stuart Clark were quick to enquire after the England captain's well being but Hoggard relished the chance to frustrate Hampshire's two Australians.

After spending the winter on the receiving end of a 5-0 Ashes whitewash, Hoggard enjoyed the chance to make Clark and Warne toil.

His partnership with Younis Khan was worth 100 when the Pakistan batsman pulled Warne into the groundstaffs' tunnel for four.

Khan reached his fifty from 90 balls (five fours) with a single off Clark in the next over.

Then Hoggard reached only his third first-class fifty from 102 balls (six fours) but Hampshire should have ended the partnership at 80-2 - and when Hoggard was only on 20.

The England bowler edged James Tomlinson to the left of Warne at second slip, but Hampshire's captain dropped a chance he should have taken.

LUNCH (YORKSHIRE WERE 175-2 AFTER 47 OVERS)

Warne finally dismissed Hoggard (61 from 121 balls) in the fifth over after lunch when the nightwatchman top-edged a sweep to Sean Ervine (186-3).

But Younis Khan was still there and reached his second hundred of the match from 143 balls by guiding Ervine's medium pace to the third-man boundary in the 59th over.

In hitting his 12th four, Younis Khan became the first Yorkshire batsman to score two first-class hundreds in the same match since Michael Vaughan achieved the feat against Essex at Chelmsford in 1999.

But he is Yorkshire's first overseas player to do so, and he managed it in only his third championship match.

After putting on 59 in 17 overs with the Pakistan batsman, Jacques Rudolph (22) became Clark's third victim of the innings when he drove at a wide delivery and was caught by Nic Pothas (245-4).

But Gerard Brophy soon showed his intent by pulling Tomlinson for six in the first over of the left-arm quick's second spell.

TEA (YORKSHIRE WERE 319-4 AFTER 86 OVERS)

Wicketkeeper Brophy reached his fifty from just 59 balls when he cut James Bruce to the boundary for his eighth four in the third over of the final session.

Then Younis Khan reached his next milestone, passing 150 in 241 balls by pulling Tomlinson for his 16th and 17th fours in the next over.

The Pakistani then swept a tired Warne for six over mid-wicket on the way to his fourth fifty from just 47 balls.

After more than six hours at the crease, he reached a chanceless 200 (288 balls) by cutting Jimmy Adams's medium pace for his 21st four .

Then Brophy reached his sixth first-class hundred from 115 balls (13 fours, one six) with a single off Clark before Gough declared in time to have nine overs at Hampshire before stumps.

Clark 22.5-0-83-3, Bruce 17-7-44-0, Tomlinson 15-1-78-0, Ervine 21-3-86-0, Warne 29-2-114-1, Adams 2-0-16-0