JACK Leaning scored a battling Roses century against Lancashire and now wants to see Jack Brooks do the same on day three.

York ace Leaning and Brooks piled the pressure on Lancashire during a rain-affected second day of the Specsavers County Championship match at Emirates Old Trafford.

Only 43 overs of play were possible but the White Rose side certainly made the most of them as they advanced their first innings from 251-6 overnight to 421-7 at close.

Leaning posted his first Championship hundred since midway through 2015 and closed on 118 not out off 288 balls.

Brooks, batting at number nine in his first match of the season following a calf injury, then added an entertaining career-best 94 not out off 135 balls.

"Hopefully we can go and get some quick runs and then some early wickets," said 23-year-old Leaning, who now has four career centuries.

"To be honest, I'm hoping Brooksy gets a hundred first. I hope we don't declare overnight because I'd love to see his celebration after getting a hundred, having seen what they're like when he takes wickets.

"He just put the pressure back on them. He considers himself an all-rounder now!

"He's trained hard over the winter and having an injury has helped him work on his batting a lot. To play as well as he did there is all credit to him."

Andrew Hodd fell for 44 in the first six overs of play when he chopped on to Tom Bailey, ending a seventh-wicket stand of 78 and leaving the score at 256-7.

Play was halted just before 11.30am and only resumed at 4.15pm.

But from then on it was all Yorkshire, with Leaning epitomising their hard work with a six-hour century, including two sixes.

Brooks later hit four sixes during a Roses record eighth-wicket partnership of 165 inside 40 overs with Leaning, beating the previous record of 137 between Lancashire pair Andrew Symonds and Warren Hegg at the same venue in 2005.

Leaning said: "It's a big weight off my shoulders to get that hundred after a poor season in red-ball cricket (last year). To do that in a tough situation in a Roses game against Lancashire means a lot.

"I didn't quite feel fluent for much of my innings but to be able to get back to old ways and graft out ugly runs when I'm not feeling at my best is really pleasing.

"They bowled very well. They held their lengths and set the fields accordingly, which made it tough to score. Thankfully, to get through that and get the team in a good position is massive."