Adam Lyth has become the first player in the country to reach 1,000 County Championship runs for the season.

The 22 year-old has also moved beyond 50 for the tenth time this summer to help put Yorkshire in a commanding position at lunch on the first day of their match against Warwickshire at Headingley.

Anthony McGrath has also passed 800 runs for the season, and the Tykes have gone into the break at 119-1 after 31 overs.

McGrath is playing despite a thumb injury but Joe Sayers is still out due to the asthma attack he suffered before the Lancashire match last week.

Yorkshire had to recover from the loss of captain Jacques Rudolph for a duck, caught at second slip by Rikki Clarke in the third over.

Lyth reached his 50 off 82 balls and has since advanced to 69 off 109 balls with 11 boundaries.

McGrath, who is 47 not out, has survived a couple of chances, meanwhile. He could have been run out early in his innings when he dropped his bat, but Jim Troughton missed the stumps with his throw.

He was also dropped on 41 by Clarke at second slip off the bowling of Steffan Piolet with the score on 108-1.

Lyth had only just hit two successive boundaries off Piolet to bring up Yorkshire’s hundred, a glorious straight drive and a flick off the legs.