SURREY V YORKSHIRE - DAY 1

Yorkshire left Deon Kruis out of their 12, Surrey went into the game without Mark Butcher. Darren Gough won the toss and decided to bat.

A disappointing morning for Yorkshire that saw them loose four wickets while scoring 87. Ormond bowled well for Surrey in the opening overs but Sayers and White looked solid enough, especially Sayers whose judgement was excellent. After progessing to 35 White slashed at one outside his offstump and was well caught in the gully. McGrath joined Sayers and the partnership was getting on top of the Surrey bowling as Yorkshire moved 69 but then Sayers made his first mis-judgement; flashing at one wide of offstump and being was caught behind. Four runs later and McGrath (after three well struck fours) did the same thing. It then got even worse, Younus Khan got off the mark with a four but then played a loose shot and was clean bowled by Riki Clarke. Rudolph and Brophy settled in nicely ensuring there were no further losses up to the interval.

Yorkshire started well after lunch with Rudolph and Brophy playing some good shots, they had taken their partnership to 54, when Surrey's Aussie debutante Magoffin trapped Brophy lbw for 22 (4 fours). Rashid was missed early in his innings at slip but then he and Rudolph put together an excellent partnership. Rudolph using his feet to Doshi started to pepper the boundry and consecutive sixes took him to his first Yorkshire half century. The pair took Yorkshire safely to tea and getting right back into the game.

Rudolph and Rashid continued to dominate after tea, Rashid completing 50 and Rudolph a spectacular ton off 136 balls (16 fours and 3 sixes). Playing some great shots Rashid looked as if a Maiden century was there for the taking but after a partnership of 190, Azhar Mahmood came back to bowl Rashid for a splendid 86. Then how often does it happen, when one partner goes the other soon follows, Rudolph drove uppishly and was caught for a brilliant 122 (168 balls, 20 fours and 3 sixes). The loss of two quick wickets could have caused a collaspe but skipper Gough and Tim Bresnan did a good job adding 29 before Azhar Mahmood collected his third wicket when sending back Gough for 23. Bresnan hit a couple of nice shots to take Yorkshire past 350. Bresnan continued to play well and Gillespie dug in as they took Yorkshire to 390 for 8 at the close.