Yorkshire have still got an outside chance of winning their ongoing LV= County Championship match after a strong response to Derbyshire’s first-innings 475 and Chesney Hughes’s maiden double century today.

Derbyshire’s left-handed opener posted a superb unbeaten 270 to be the cornerstone of the visitors’ imposing first-innings effort and write himself into the record books on the day the White Rose county announced Mark Arthur as their new chief executive.

Adam Lyth (69) and Joe Root (75 not out) then scored half-centuries to help the hosts close on 164-1 from 45 overs - a deficit of 311.

Yorkshire will need to bat the whole of tomorrow's third day and probably into Thursday before putting the pressure on with the ball during the latter stages of the contest.

Arthur, who is 54, takes up his new post at Headingley on Tuesday having held similar posts with Nottinghamshire County Cricket Club and Nottingham Forest Football Club since the mid-1990s.

Hughes batted for just over nine hours, falling only five runs short of Derbyshire’s highest individual score in their first-class history.

The 22-year-old posted the highest score by anyone carrying their bat in the Championship since 1935, and is now tied fifth on list of highest first-class scorers at Headingley, putting himself alongside names such as Don Bradman, John Edrich and Darren Lehmann.

There was also a milestone for Bradford’s Adil Rashid, who claimed his 300th first-class wicket on the way to 3-122, trapping former team-mate David Wainwright lbw as he attempted to sweep.

Lyth was caught at second slip after tea following a loose drive at Tim Groenewald.

Arthur arrives at Headingley having been sacked by the new Kuwaiti owners of Nottingham Forest in January, alongside two other members of the admin staff.

Yorkshire’s last full-time chief executive was Stewart Regan, who left midway through 2010 to join the Scottish FA.

Arthur said: “It is an honour and a massive opportunity to be part of the biggest cricket club in the world. I will do everything during my time at Headingley for the betterment of Yorkshire cricket.”