Chris Adams scored his first hundred of the season at Arundel yesterday before saluting the team-mate who put his efforts in the shade.

Murray Goodwin batted throughout most of the second day against Yorkshire at Arundel to score 235 - the fifth double-hundred of his Sussex career and second this season - as Sussex gave themselves every chance of winning their sixth Championship match of the summer.

He was finally dismissed five overs before the close for 235 as tiredness betrayed him and he was caught behind pushing forward to Deon Kruis.

Sussex scored 427 runs in the day and will resume today on 479-7 - a lead of 241 - having claimed maximum batting points for the first time this season.

Adams was delighted to score his first Championship ton since his 102 not out against Nottinghamshire on the same ground a year ago but was happy to concede that his effort paled in comparison to Goodwin's.

He said: "What more can you say about Murray? That was my 22nd hundred for Sussex but he's got 25. It's nice just to be mentioned in the same terms as him.

"It's a fantastic effort because it was never easy, particularly early on and then when they took the new ball. He played superbly but he also grafted hard when he had to. It's definitely one of his best innings for us."

The pair put on 254 in 60 overs, only the ninth stand of over 250 for the county's fourth wicket, of which Adams contributed 107 before he edged Jason Gillespie to second slip in the last over before tea.

Adams said: "Early on I just wanted to play for Murray because he was batting with such a great rhythm - everything looked so comfortable for him."

Indeed it did, as Yorkshire's bowlers will readily testify. There was still enough in the pitch to keep the quicks interested but, unlike the first day, few balls swung and Yorkshire's attack lacked the discipline shown by their opponents.

By mid-afternoon their fielding had become increasingly ragged and to add to their woes - and England's - Michael Vaughan did not reappear after lunch after his troublesome knee flared up again.

All of which will not have bothered Goodwin a jot. Since his match-saving 214 not out in the Championship opener against Warwickshire the Zimbabwean - by his own high standards - has struggled somewhat with just two Championship half-centuries.

But apart from one mis-timed pull which Gillespie tipped goalkeeper-style over the rope at mid-wicket when he was on 116, he hardly played a false stroke.

He reached his hundred with a shot he could play with his eyes closed, a crunching back-foot force off Deon Kruis for his 16th boundary and from then it all looked effortlessly easy.

There were three boundaries in one over off Anthony McGrath's medium pace as he went from 100 to 150 from just 54 balls and although he slowed up as the double hundred got closer and tiredness invevitably began to take its toll, there was never any doubt that he would make it and the square-cut off McGrath which got him to 200 was warmly applauded by a crowd of around 3,000.

Even the big contingent of Yorkshire supporters on top of the grass bank stopped grumbling about their own side's inadequacies to appreciate his performance and they were on their feet again when he departed, having made the highest score of the season by any batsman in the Championship. He batted for six and three-quarter hours, faced 332 balls and hit 33 fours.

While Adams was happy to cede the limelight he was nonetheless delighted to get closer to his own ambition of 50 first-class hundreds before he retires. Only seven more to go now.

Two off drives and a couple of meaty pulls helped him take four boundaries off one McGrath over and he reached three figures with a sumptious on-drive off Matthew Hoggard which the England man had the good grace to applaud. When Gillespie, comfortably the pick of the Yorkshire attack, removed him Adams had faced 176 balls and hit 16 fours.

Gillespie had struck in the 12th over of the day when he squared up Carl Hopkinson while Kruis picked up the wicket of Matt Prior early and McGrath bowled Robin Martin-Jenkins to give his figures some respectability.