Wharton puts Tykes in command against Derbyshire

James Wharton's previous highest score in first-class cricket was 89

Vitality County Championship Division Two, Chesterfield (day two)

Derbyshire 76: Fernando 5-30, Thompson 4-31

Yorkshire 416-6: Wharton 188, Tattersall 93*; Dupavillon 2-66

Yorkshire 7 pts, Derbyshire 1 pt

Match scorecard

James Wharton and Jonny Tattersall shared a record-breaking stand before rain frustrated Yorkshire on the second day of the County Championship match against Derbyshire at Chesterfield.

The pair shared a partnership of 241 - Yorkshire's highest for the sixth wicket against Derbyshire - as the visitors moved to 416-6 when play was abandoned shortly before 4.30pm.

Wharton faced 241 balls for his career-best 188 which contained 23 fours and six maximums, with Tattersall 93 not out off 151 balls to give Yorkshire a lead of 340.

Yorkshire had been unrelenting with the ball on day one and there was no respite for Derbyshire as Wharton and Tattersall batted through a rain-shortened first session.

With the hosts bowling spin from both ends to improve their over rate, they did much as they pleased to eclipse a record which had stood for more than a hundred years.

Wharton twice dispatched the leg spin of Mitch Wagstaff for six and - after surviving a difficult chance to deep cover on 147 - he reached 150 off 180 balls, 104 of them coming in boundaries.

Tattersall's contribution was not as eye catching but was just as valuable in putting Yorkshire into a near-impregnable position and the pair eased past the county's previous highest sixth-wicket stand against Derbyshire of 178 set by Emmott Robinson and Cecil Burton in 1921.

Derbyshire eventually claimed a second new ball after 89 overs and after Wharton drove Daryn Dupavillon through the covers to bring up the 400, rain brought another prosperous session for the visitors to a close.

When play resumed after lunch, Dupavillon finally broke through by having Wharton caught at second slip for the 12th highest individual score against Derbyshire in Yorkshire's history.

He departed to a standing ovation and warm congratulations from the Derbyshire fielders who recognised how well he had played in far from straight-forward conditions.

Jordan Thompson announced his intentions by hitting two fours before more rain stopped play, with Tattersall seven short of a century and that proved to be the final action on a day when only 35.1 overs were bowled.

Report supplied by the ECB Reporters' Network.