SHANE Warne continued his amazing record of never having made a first class run at Headingley when he was out for a fifth consecutive duck as Yorkshire hit back hard on the second day of the Liverpool Victoria Championship match.

The great Australian leg-spinner managed to keep out a vicious first ball yorker from Tim Bresnan but in trying to pull the next, which was a legside bouncer, he could only lob a catch to Matthew Wood at first slip.

In two Test match innings at Headingley, Warne was out for ducks and he bagged a pair for Hampshire on the ground in 2000.

Bresnan struck again in the same over by taking out Richard Logan's middle stump with another perfect yorker, the third of three wickets to go down for three runs, and with James Bruce falling to the last ball of the day Hampshire had dived to 246-9, still 104 runs in arrears on the first innings.

All the excitement was in sharp contrast to the earlier part of the Hampshire innings which proceeded at a snail's pace.

Opener Michael Carberry compiled 52 from 107 balls and John Crawley made even slower progress with his 54 using up 145 deliveries.

It was all so humdrum that England captain Michael Vaughan idled away the afternoon at long leg by signing autographs for kids and even signalling to a security man to let them come through the rails and on to the boundary edge.

Soon after the sudden departures of Crawley and Greg Lamb, however, Dominic Thornely woke up by driving Richard Dawson high over long off for six to reach his 50 from 95 balls with seven other boundaries and he was still battling away at the end of the day with 74 from 164 balls with four fours and a six.

Yorkshire's ninth-wicket stand between Bresnan and Gillespie was already worth 118 when play resumed in the morning and with only three added it became the highest partnership for that wicket by any team at Headingley, beating the 120 by Lancashire's Yorkshire-born pair of John Wood and Gary Keedy in 2002.

Bresnan, dropped by Lamb at first slip on 89, lost Gillespie in Warne's first over of the day for 44, the stand having risen to 144, and in Warne's following over Bresnan was lbw for a Championship-best 91 from 141 balls with 12 fours and a six.