Surrey fell to comprehensive defeat to Yorkshire by an innings and 127 runs in the Rothesay County Championship at Headingley
Yorkshire took the remaining five wickets for the loss of 72 runs just before lunch on the final day in Leeds.
Surrey started the day on 83 for five in their second innings, trailing by 199, and they quickly lost overnight duo Dom Sibley for 34 and left-handed Josh Blake for 19.
From there, the writing was on the wall as Surrey, bowled out for 155, slipped to their first defeat of the season in six Division One matches this season.
Yorkshire claimed 23 points for their second win in six, with Surrey taking only two points.
Sibley was actually dropped at leg slip in the day’s first full over off Jack White before he edged departing Australian Test quick Jhye Richardson to second slip in the next, where Harry Brook took a sharp catch going to his left.
White then trapped Blake lbw pushing forwards, leaving Surrey at 90 for seven in the 32nd over, the day’s third full over.
And shortly afterwards, he bowled Jordan Clark with one that shot through low. In fairness to Clark, he could do little about it. White finished with three for 27 from 11 overs.
Sean Abbott and Matthew Fisher added a consolatory 25 for the ninth wicket, and the latter was even struck a nasty blow to the helmet by a Matthew Revis bouncer. Two balls later, he edged the same bowler to first slip – 120 for nine.
Abbott, 33 not out, and last man Dan Worrall added 35 more before the latter had his off-stump uprooted by George Hill, who struck for the first time in the innings and the fifth time in the match.
This was the last game of Richardson’s early-season overseas spell with Yorkshire. He took a wicket in each innings.
After first-innings centuries for Adam Lyth (141) and captain Jonny Bairstow (120) underpinned Yorkshire’s 486 all out, this was a real team effort with the ball from the hosts, who bounced back impressively from defeat against Warwickshire at Edgbaston last week.
While Yorkshire have now won two, lost two and drawn two, Surrey have won one, lost one and drawn four.
Surrey – bowled out for 204 and 155 in reply to 486 – just had no one who could match the excellence of Lyth and Bairstow with the bat and the ruthlessness of their seamers with the ball.
Abbott was their top-scorer in both innings from number nine, having posted 56 in the first innings.
Both counties now turn their attentions to the start of the Vitality Blast on Friday.
