Mercurial Yorkshire plumbed new depths at Headingley yesterday when they followed on 358 runs behind Glamorgan after being bowled out for 140 and by the close they had limped to 93 for five in their second innings, still 265 in arrears, writes David Warner.

The inept batting was all the harder to fathom because in contrast Glamorgan's first innings score of 498 was the highest they have ever made against Yorkshire, beating their 482 for seven at Cardiff in 1996.

Yorkshire's bowlers were just as much to blame for the sorry show as the batsmen because they never bowled as straight or as vigorously as Glamorgan and therefore did not get anywhere near as much out of the pitch.

While Yorkshire struggled, 17-year-old Mark Wallace enjoyed himself immensely for Glamorgan in only his second championship match and looked to be a new star in the making. First, he completed his maiden half-century on his way to a splendid 64 not out, and then he held on to four good catches while giving a bristling display behind the stumps.

Resuming on 395 for seven, Glamorgan pressed on against half-hearted bowling with Wallace and Keith Newell taking the score to 426 for seven in 120 overs which meant Yorkshire had failed to extract maximum bowling points from a Headingley match for the first time in over a year.

The eighth wicket pair had added 93 in 32 overs by the time Newell fell lbw to Ian Fisher for 45 and Michael Vaughan then picked up the last two wickets to leave the left-handed Wallace unbeaten.

The rot set in straight away for Yorkshire as Vaughan nibbled at a ball from Steve Watkin which he should have left alone and poor Matthew Wood was lbw to a grubber from Owen Parkin.

David Byas was also lbw to a fuller ball from Watkin which skidded through and the Welshman struck again in an excellent opening spell by having Richard Blakey scooped up at short leg by Wayne Law.

South African Jacques Kallis banged the ball in like no-one else and his movement off the pitch did for Anthony McGrath while Gary Fellows ducked a ball which did not get up as high as he expected and it rattled the top of his stumps.

Only Richard Harden offered any sort of resistance until straight after tea when he was caught by Wallace diving to his right to bring Watkin his fourth wicket.

The innings was over in 161 minutes and Yorkshire fared just as miserably second time round, Parkin wiping out the first three in the order with only 18 scored to bring shouts and jeers from the disgruntled fans.

Blakey and McGrath put on 45, Yorkshire's best stand of the day, before McGrath tickled Darren Thomas down the legside.

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