Bairstow, Bresnan plunder record 366-run stand

"Greed is good" preached Gordon Gekko devoutly in Oliver Stone's 1987 film Wall Street "greed is right, greed works." And if Yorkshire's cricketers want to celebrate Monday's remarkable cricket at Chester-le-Street, they might do worse that arrange a celebratory showing of the movie at a Headingley multiplex. Bollinger and Beluga thrown in, naturally.

Its satirical content, however, might elude them; not because they are daft - on the contrary, Andrew Gale's cricketers are very astute professional men - but because against Durham their lust for runs did, indeed, work for them. On an afternoon which many Yorkshiremen will remember for as long as they can remember anything at all, Jonny Bairstow and Tim Bresnan put on an unbroken 366 for the seventh wicket. "'Ow many?" the county's disbelieving yet delighted supporters in distant Bradford or Bramley might have asked when told the news. Well, I suppose it makes a change from "Ow much?" the question unfairly put into the mouth of the caricatured Yorkshireman.