Yorkshire did better with the second new ball in the Roses match at Headingley but Lancashire still managed to tot up 417-9 before declaring when bad light and then rain restricted the second day's play to 57.3 overs.
Lancashire at lunch yesterday were in a commanding position at 368-5 but much tighter bowling after the interval meant they could only add 49 further runs in 19 overs for the loss of four wickets.
Yorkshire's bowling for a large part of the innings had been mediocre but in the end they had the consolation of picking up maximum bowling bonus points.
It is disappointing, however, that they have yet to bowl out a side in the first innings for under 300 this season and their leading pair of Aussie Jason Gillespie and South African Deon Kruis are still not firing as they should.
Gillespie has worked very hard, bowling 147 overs in three-and-a-half matches, but he has so far captured only eight wickets and each one has cost him just short of 50 runs.
Kruis is only in his second match after recovering from a pre-season calf injury but his 2-135 yesterday were the most expensive figures he has registered for Yorkshire since joining them in 2005.
Lancashire were contemplating a substantial score when they came out for the afternoon session but they found life harder against the second new ball, or, to be more accurate, the third.
The second new ball was only two overs old when umpires Barrie Leadbeater and Rob Bailey noticed that it had the purplish look of balls issued five or six years ago. Play was halted while the mystery was investigated and the umpires found that the ball was a rogue one in a box of otherwise new balls.
"There was nothing wrong with it, apart from it being from old stock, but we changed it so that the teams were not playing with one which was out of date," said Leadbeater.
First to fall to the genuinely new ball was Luke Sutton, lbw to Kruis for 46 after putting on a tiresome 81 in 28 overs with Glen Chapple, who brought Gillespie a wicket when he drove to Tim Bresnan at mid-off.
Bresnan was the pick of the bowlers throughout the innings and he struck twice in consecutive overs, Kyle Hogg looping an intended hook to wicketkeeper Gerard Brophy, and Dominic Cork miscuing to John Blain at mid-on after uncharacteristically facing 25 balls for his 11.
Yorkshire were far less disciplined in the morning when Lancashire resumed on 228-3 with Mal Loye and Stuart Law already having added 142 together. Kruis and Gillespie were both attacked as 40 were scored in the first half-hour and Blain once again proved expensive.
The stand topped the previous best for Lancashire's fourth wicket in a Roses match of 202 between Len Hopwood and Clifford Hawkwood on the same ground in 1933, but four runs later Loye hooked Kruis to Bresnan at long leg and was out for 138 off 179 balls with 20 boundaries.
Law soon completed his own century off 143 deliveries with 17 fours by square driving Blain for two but he missed the next one and was lbw, Blain's figures at that stage reading 9-0-65-2.
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