County Championship: Yorkshire hit back with ball in Roses game

LV=County Championship Division One, Emirates Old Trafford (day one): Lancashire 272-8: Jennings 119, Wells 84 ; Hill 6-26Yorkshire: Still to Beat >Scorecard

Jennings hit 119 becoming the first batter to score four hundred in four innings streaks in that famous match, as he went 180 for the first wicket with Luke Wells, who made it 84.

But Jennings' dismissal sparked a Lancashire slump as Hill won the first five-wicket run of his career.

Hill finished with 6-26 from 16 overs, including a 5-5 flurry as Lancashire was crashing from 231 -1 to 251-6 before eventually limping to 272-8.

C It was amazing how the bat ball dominated in the last session as in the first two sessions, the Red Rose progressed serenely after captain Dane Vilas won the coin toss.

Starting this game 34 points behind leaders Surrey, Lancashire know they have to win in a way realistically the remaining three games if they are to overhaul the South London side and Hampshire to win the title.

That meant putting a big score on the board and it was a surprise when Wells walked out just before tea when a century had seemed to him to take when he was caught in the depths of the hill.

But he there was no stopping Jennings. He raised his century on 220 balls to become the first player in this game to hit centuries in four consecutive innings, overtaking Herbert Sutcliffe of Yorkshire and Geoff Pullar of Lancashire, who had both recorded three in a row.

After previous scores of 238, 132 and 114 in Roses' innings and a career-best 318 against Somerset in July , Yorkshire must have feared the worst as the opener was just starting to work before Hill prod...