ANDY FLINTOFF boosted his hopes of an England recall but that was a rare highlight of another dismal Roses performance by Lancashire.

Flintoff, who had failed to score a 50 in 16 Championship innings before last weekend at Colwyn Bay, hit his second on the trot from only 51 balls in the first innings against Yorkshire.

But even with Warren Hegg weighing in with 78, that was not enough to prevent Lancashire tumbling to 242 all out inside 54 overs -- and following on 225 runs behind.

And with skipper John Crawley going cheaply for the second time in a few hours, they were soon in trouble in their second innings although Flintoff again frustrated Yorkshire in a second wicket stand with Mark Chilton.

The powerful all-rounder has been tipped for another England chance in place of Craig White at Headingley next week, even though White made a season's best 186 in Yorkshire's massive total.

"It would be great to get back but I'm not thinking about that," said Flintoff. "I haven't been batting well this season but in the last few weeks it's started to feel better."

He hit nine fours and a six in his half century but was then deceived in the flight by young Yorkshire spinner Richard Dawson.

And that was the start of another Lancashire collapse.

Crawley and Chilton had already gone cheaply, then Joe Scuderi was run out and both Graham Lloyd and Chris Schofield could not cope with hostile balls from left arm paceman Paul Hutchison, a possible Lancashire target when he is released by Yorkshire at the end of the season.

Hegg did his best, continuing his superbly consistent batting form with a second score of 70-plus against Yorkshire in as many weeks.

But he holed out to mid on to end Lancashire's chances of avoiding an embarrassing follow-on.

Meanwhile, Wasim Akram has offered to do "whatever I can" to help Lancashire as a specialist bowling coach, although he has ruled himself out of the running to succeed Bob Simpson because of other commitments.