County Championship Division One: Yorkshire hammer Hampshire

Jonny Bairstow cracked a career-best first class score of 246 and Liam Plunkett tonked an 82-ball hundred as reigning county champions Yorkshire took complete control against Hampshire at Headingley.

Resuming day two on 270-5, Bairstow, who had followed Adam Lyth (111) through to three figures late on the first day, added a further 139 runs to his overnight score, bringing up his double-century off 233 balls.

Bairstow and Plunkett (126) blasted a demoralised Hampshire attack that tried as many as nine different bowlers for 227 runs for the seventh wicket before both finally fell within three balls of each other.

Yorkshire declared on 593-9 before restricting the visitors to 141-5 at stumps, Plunkett and Ryan Sidebottom taking two wickets apiece as only James Vince (76 not out) was able to stick around for Hants.

Middlesex's Sam Robson also notched a double-hundred on day two of their clash against Warwickshire at Lord's.

Robson (231) added the 25 further runs he needed in the morning session to bring up the milestone, while John Simpson (52) - also unbeaten overnight - went through to fifty.

But Simpson's wicket triggered a slight lower-order collapse, Jeetan Patel (4-80) taking four wickets as the home side lost six wickets for 82 runs to be bowled out for 452.

Warwickshire lost Ian Westwood (0) and Ian Bell (14) early in their reply but a partnership of 77 between Varun Chopra and Jonathan Trott steadied the ship.

Chopra eventually fell for 57 and Steven Finn (2-48) bowled Sam Hain (two) to put the pressure back on before Tim Ambrose and Trott saw the visitors through to the close at 146-4, the latter unbeaten on 62.

Lancashire took the upper hand in their first game back in Division One after promotion in 2015, as they built up a first innings lead of 69 over Nottinghamshire at Old Trafford.

The home side reached 311-8 at the close in reply to Notts' 242, with Liam Livingston top-scoring with 63 not out, Alex Davies making 55 and Alviro Petersen notching 48.

Petersen was eventually out caught-and-bowled by England's Stuart Broad, his first of three wickets.