COUNTY CHAMPIONSHIP DIVISION ONE, Old Trafford:
CLOSE OF PLAY, DAY TWO: Yorkshire 447, Lancashire 187-6
Lancashire 2pts, Yorkshire 7pts
Match scorecard

Rashid last played for England on last winter's tour to South Africa

Spinners Adil Rashid and Azeem Rafiq took three wickets each to put Yorkshire in control against Lancashire after two days at Old Trafford.

Yorkshire regained some of the ground lost by Lancashire's late burst of wickets on Monday by taking their overnight 379-8 to 447.

Paul Horton and Stephen Moore shared 94 for the first wicket for the hosts.

But Rashid and Rafiq then took centre stage as Lancashire closed on 187-6, 110 short of avoiding the follow-on.

It was Rashid who made the breakthrough when he held a return catch off Moore (40) to end Lancashire's biggest opening partnership of this summer's Championship campaign.

He then trapped Horton (63) leg before, the Lancashire opener having passed 50 for the the fifth time in nine first-class innings against Yorkshire.

Mark Chilton was his third victim on the way to ending the day with 3-44 from 21 overs, edging to Jacques Rudolph at slip.

Rafiq then got in on the action, having Steven Croft held by Rudolph trying to cut one that was too close to him, before Simon Katich, who has become the first man to play for both the Roses rivals in the Championship, edged the teenage off-spinner to Adam Lyth at short leg.

And he claimed the final scalp of nightwatchman Simon Kerrigan late on to finish the day with 3-35 and leave his side well on top.

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