White and Wood put Yorkshire in sight of the title

Craig White and Matthew Wood both hit Glamorgan for centuries at Scarborough yesterday to put Yorkshire on the threshold of their first County Championship title for 33 years.

The pair's runs helped rack up a full complement of bonus points and meant Yorkshire need only bowl Glamorgan out in the next two days to charge over the finishing line with two matches to spare.

White and Wood added 275 in all – split between the first and second wickets because Wood (124) was replaced temporarily by Steve Kirby – and White then ploughed on to 183 as his team reached 433 for 5 by stumps on day two in reply to Glamorgan's 223.

On his home ground, White took 273 balls, hitting two sixes and 25 fours, for his century – and Wood reached his by also striking two maximums and 14 fours from 215 balls.

The latter deserved particular credit for the way he came out in the morning to set about the visitors' pace attack after he had to go off injured on Tuesday, night to be replaced by Kirby, when Simon Jones struck him on the cheekbone. Yorkshire finished on 433 for 5, a lead of 210 over Glamorgan, and will be confident of success today.