David Warner on Yorkshire County Cricket

Michael Vaughan and Craig White made their best first class scores of the season before Yorkshire declared 57 runs in arrears of Oxford University on the second day of the match at The Parks.

Then a fiery opening spell by Matthew Hoggard and later two wickets for Vaughan left the University struggling on 97-5 in their second innings at close of play, so Yorkshire were likely to find themselves chasing a not too demanding target this afternoon.

Skipper David Byas did not make the most of a dropped chance off Dave Eadie's first ball of the secondday because he whipped the final delivery of the same over to mid-wicket where Douglas Lockhard took an athletic catch left-handed.

The departure of Byas set the stage for a third wicket stand of 104 between Vaughan and White, neither of whom had scored a first class half century in four championship matches this season.

They gratefully accepted the opportunity to get into their stride, Vaughan with a measured approach and White with occasional savage bursts of scoring.

Vaughan was just beginning to sense a third century in The Parks when he was out to the ball before lunch, which he drove back low to Eadie. He scored 69 off 113 deliveries and hit ten fours.

There were welcome runs in the afternoon for Matthew Wood, but White supplied the muscles, smacking two extra cover fours off Dave Mather to reach his half century. He then smashed off-spinner Byron Byrne for three consecutive fours and a six.

In attempting another boundary off the next ball, however, he mishit a drive back to the bowler and was out for 80 scored off 126 balls, with 14 fours and a six.

Hoggard, with a much better line than in the first innings, had the University's openers caught behind the wicket by Colin Chapman, the agile reserve keeper adding a third wicket by diving to his right to send back Byrne off Gavin Hamilton.

Richard Stemp's improved accuracy meant he gave away a mere handful of runs but could not claim a wicket. Vaughan, however, met with immediate success, having John Claughton caught at mid-wicket in his first over and Ross Garland at mid-off in his second.

Vaughan would have rounded off an excellent day for him with a third wicket if he had managed to pull down a high return catch from Eadie but the ball did not quite stick.

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