Marnus Labuschagne hit his seventh century for Glamorganto pass 2,000 Championship runs for the countyLV= County Championship Division Two, Clean Slate Headingley (day three)Glamorgan 245: Labuschagne 65 & 352-4 dec: Labuschagne 170*, Northeast 64, Root 51*Yorkshire 106: Neser 7-32Yorkshire (3 pts) need 492 to beat Glamorgan (3 pts)Match scorecard
A regal unbeaten 170 from Marnus Labuschagne lit up Headingley as the Australia batter put Yorkshire to the sword.
Glamorgan racked up 352 for four before declaring just before tea, setting Yorkshire an unlikely target of 492.
Labuschagne shared stands of 148 with Sam Northeast (66) and 130 with Billy Root (51 not out).
But rain spared Yorkshire from starting their battle to survive.
The question for Glamorgan was when to call off their relentless progress and give themselves a realistic chance of taking 10 wickets, as the bad weather arrived in line with most forecasts.
Starting the day 196 ahead, Glamorgan’s batters were content to accumulate gently for much of the first session, with the only semblance of a chance coming early as Labuschagne’s ferocious square cut off Jordan Thompson was almost snaffled by a diving Finlay Bean.
The acceleration came just before lunch as Northeast slapped a six over third man off Thompson as he reached a red-ball 50 for the first time since his 410 not out at Leicester last July.
It took until the 150th over of the match for spin to appear, and Labuschagne tucked into Dom Bess’s second over with three boundaries from two reverse sweeps and a scoop shot.
The home side tried some short-pitched bowling and funky fields to unsettle Glamorgan but Labuschagne just responded with brilliant invention, scooping boundaries over fine leg and smacking flat-bat fours through mid-on.
Thompson, the most tenacious of the suffering bowlers, saw Northeast cut hard into the hands of Saud Shakeel at gully and Kiran Carlson soon fell caught behind by Jonny Bairstow off Matthew Fisher.
But Labuschagne late-cut…
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