Another duck for Warne at Yorkshire

If it was not for Dominic Thornely's Hampshire-best 74 not out, Warne's men would be well and truly out of this match.

They are struggling as it is on 246-9, after losing seven wickets for 58 runs in 20 overs in response to Yorkshire's 350 yesterday.

It was a day to forget at a venue where Warne is yet to score a first-class run in five innings.

He bagged a pair in his only previous Hampshire appearance at Headingley six years ago.

And in two Test innings in Leeds he has also failed to trouble the scorers.

After surviving his first ball yesterday, a yorker from Yorkshire's man-of-the-day Tim Bresnan, he top edged to first slip as he attempted to pull a bouncer.

It looped to first slip where Matthew Wood held on to the simplest of catches.

Warne's mood was not helped by a Yorkshire member asking how many he had made as he walked back to the pavilion.

Can't you **** read?" was the Hampshire captain's response as he pointed to a duck illuminated on the Headingley scoreboard.

Soon afterwards, Richard Logan was also back in the dressing room as an inswinging yorker from Bresnan ripped out his middle stump.

Hampshire were suddenly 227-8, having looked well set at 188-2 before losing six wickets in 13 overs.

Bresnan did much of the damage and had begun the day by adding 12 to his overnight 79 before he was Yorkshire's last man out, trapped lbw by Warne.

After resuming on 323-8, Yorkshire added a further 27 before Shane Warne removed Jason Gillespie and then Bresnan in the sapce of seven balls.

The pair's 144-run ninth-wicket partnership was a Yorkshire record at Headingley, but ended when Gillespie (44 from 120 balls) edged a leg break in Warne's first over.

Bresnan (91 from 141 balls) was denied a maiden championship hundred when he was trapped lbw by the first ball of Warne's next over.

Warne finished with 4-68, his best Headingley figures, and he would have been content as Hampshire lunched on 60-0, after a solid start from left-handers Jimmy Adams and Michael Carberry.

But an inside edge meant Adams (30 from 82 balls) only lasted two balls of the afternoon session.

Carberry looked threatening, especially to Michael Lumb, who took a fearful blow on the helmet at short leg when Hampshire's winter signing hit out against Richard Dawson just before lunch.

The former Kent man reached 50 from 95 balls with a lofted straight six against Dawson.

But he failed to score from another 12 deliveries before he was caught behind for his second highest Hampshire score (52 from 107 balls).

John Crawley scored a patient 54 from 145 balls as he and Thornley added 79 in 32 overs for the third wicket.

But the collapse began when Crawley was castled by Kruis, beaten comprehensively by a full-length ball that cut back and knocked out his middle stump.

In the next over, Greg Lamb, in his first championship appearance of the season, was out for a two-ball duck. And an athletic one-handed catch from Wood, who dived low to his left at first slip, meant that Nic Pothas (10) became the first of three wickets in as many overs for Bresnan.

Dimtri Mascarenhas (3) played on to Gillespie before Bresnan dismissed Warne and Logan in the space of three balls.

Hampshire needed a record ninth-wicket stand of their own but after helping Thornely add 19 in seven overs, James Bruce nicked the last ball of the day.

Thornley had watched from the non-striker's end as Hampshire slumped from 188-2 to 246-9, a first innings deficit of 104, and he ended the day unbeaten on 74 (164 balls, four fours, one six).

The Australian had started slowly he had three runs from his first 34 balls but gradually accelerated as he went past his previous best for the county, his 65 against Warwickshire last month.