IT was unlucky 13 for England captain Michael Vaughan on his Championship comeback for Yorkshire against Hampshire at Headingley yesterday.

He was out for just one after facing 13 deliveries and little else went right for Yorkshire after Craig White had won the toss for a sixth consecutive time until they had stuttered to 205-8.

Then Tim Bresnan and Jason Gillespie came together in a record ninth wicket stand for the county against Hampshire.

The pair had put on an unbroken 118 together by the close to guide Yorkshire to 323-8, Bresnan having reached a Championship-best 79 from 110 balls with 11 fours and a six and Gillespie 33 off 91 deliveries with three boundaries.

Vaughan's sparkling run-a-ball 67 off Scotland's attack in the C&G Trophy on Monday had the home fans hoping that he would serve up another vintage display but things could hardly have turned out more differently.

In the day's fourth over he drove at Billy Taylor and had his off and middle stumps knocked back, only to see umpire Peter Willey signal no-ball. Three balls later, Taylor sent down an excellent delivery which lifted and Vaughan could not avoid making contact and wicketkeeper Nic Pothas, took a catch.

In the next over, Anthony McGrath suffered a rare failure when he was superbly caught by Pothas diving in front of first slip off James Bruce and things went from bad to worse as Matthew Wood fell lbw playing across a well-pitched up ball from Taylor to make Yorkshire 13-3.

Darren Lehmann helped himself to four boundaries off Dimitri Mascarenhas as he attempted a recovery with fellow left-hander Michael Lumb, but at 55 the Australian could not hide his displeasure at being run out.

Lumb played Richard Logan towards mid-wicket and both batsmen seemed to hesitate before going through for a run but Lehmann could not beat Michael Carberry's direct hit and as he made his way back to the dressing room he hurled his helmet into the boundary board and followed up with his gloves.

It needed a good innings from Lumb to repair some of the damage and both he and White looked confident in taking Yorkshire in to lunch on 96-4.

They continued their good work after the interval with Lumb reaching his 50 and White driving off-spinner Greg Lamb arrow-straight for six before cracking him through the covers to reach his own half-century.

But when they had put on 120 in 40 overs for the fifth wicket, Lumb flashed wildly at Dominic Thornely to be stunningly caught by Shane Warne leaping far to his left at slip and departing for 67.

White followed soon afterwards, a rare victim at Headingley for Warne who has had few bowling successes on the ground. The Australian spin wizard bowled a leg-break and White was caught at first slip at the second attempt by Lamb.

Warne struck again in his next over as Gerard Brophy edged a googly into his pad and was caught at silly point and it became 205-8 in the first over after tea when Logan had Richard Dawson caught behind.

Yorkshire were by no means finished, however, because Bresnan played some well executed shots and he even dished out punishment for Warne, striking consecutive balls for four and six over mid-wicket.

Bresnan, whose career-best score of 94 was made for the MCC against Notts at the start of this season, went on to overtake his previous Championship best of 74 v Somerset at Headingley last year.

And the pair set a new Yorkshire record for the ninth wicket against Hampshire when they exceeded the 100 by George Pollitt and Lees Whitehead at Bradford Park Avenue in 1899.