Live: Rothesay County Championship – Surrey v Yorkshire Men, Day 4

Jordan Thompson caught Nathan Smith bowled Jordan Clark, 16.

Thompson has just creamed a six over square cover off Lawes, but he can’t clear mid-on running back against Clark, who finishes with 4-45.

Surrey claim 22 points to Yorkshire’s 3. The White Rose suffer their third defeat of the season in six matches.

Ben Coad bowled Jordan Clark, 2.

Coad plays on to Clark, and Surrey are nearly there in terms of their second win of the season. Yorkshire’s deficit is 35, with Jack White joining Jordan Thompson at the crease. He has 9.

Jonny Bairstow bowled Ryan Patel, 77.

Bairstow is beaten as he drives at Patel’s medium pace and loses his off-stump.

Yorkshire are 41 behind with Ben Coad and Jordan Thompson together. The latter has 5.

Not a bad first wicket of the season for Patel to get.

Matthew Revis lbw Tom Lawes, 13.

The previous ball had been edged just short of third slip, and Lawes follows it up with an in-swinger.

Jordan Thompson is in now alongside Jonny Bairstow, who has 74. The new ball is due shortly.

First base for Yorkshire reached. Jonny Bairstow 74 and Matthew Revis 13 have taken the deficit below 50,

They have played watchfully so far, and Surrey have introduced the medium pace of Ryan Patel into their attack.

Picture by Stu Forster/Getty Images.

Jonny Bairstow has just picked up his first run off his 16th over of the day, getting a single to third-man off the shoulder of the bat against a Nathan Smith delivery.

And he’s just added a pulled boundary, moving to 69 out of 198-6. The deficit is 59.

Matthew Fisher has the ball in hand, bowling the day’s second over. Yorkshire 187-6.

Matthew Revis has just got an inside-edge on a ball from Nathan Smith, which flashed past leg-stump and brought him a couple of runs. The deficit is 70, with Revis 5 and Jonny Bairstow 64.

Let’s have a look at what’s happening elsewhere in the Rothesay County Championship today.

There were Division One wins for Somerset over Sussex, Hampshire against Warwickshire and Worcestershire over Essex yesterday, while Leicestershire beat Middlesex across the Thames at Lord’s in Division Two. Glamorgan beat Northamptonshire as well.

Division One 

Durham 664 v Nottinghamshire 407 and 67-1, Banks Homes Riverside

Division Two 

Gloucestershire 516 v Kent 424 and 135-4, Seat Unique Stadium

Lancashire 458 and 141-6 v Derbyshire 314, Emirates Old Trafford

With 50 minutes to go before play, with the players warming up, it remains overcast here at the Kia Oval.

Yesterday saw the Yorkshire boys’ Under 18s/Academy side beat Northamptonshire in a pair of T20 friendlies at Headingley, one by four wickets chasing 168 and the other by 28 runs defending 210.

In the first, with Northamptonshire making 167-9, Bradley Sylvester claimed three wickets before Owen Smith opened the batting with 43. In the second, Smith made 49 and wicketkeeper-batter Joe Thompson 61 in Yorkshire’s 209-8 before Charlie H Taylor and Edward Burch claimed two wickets apiece in the visitors’ 181-8.

Yorkshire bounced back from a pair of defeats to Derbyshire on Thursday.

The Academy are preparing for the three-day T20 North Group festival at York and Clifton Alliance Cricket Clubs, involving six counties, from next Tuesday to Thursday (27-29 May).

Also playing and winning yesterday was Yorkshire’s D40 Pursuit side – the county’s second Disability team. They won a North/Midlands Group match away against Cheshire at Neston by 54 runs defending 204 all out in a 40-overs per side contest.

With three debutants – Kevin Bilcliffe, Kian Patel and Stanley Sleightholme – Yorkshire were indebted to new captain Archie Atkins-Sloan, who made 50 and 43 for Cameron Groves. In defence, with Cheshire making 153-8, Will Baxter, Ollie Wills and Jasper Spooner all took two wickets apiece. That was the county’s first game of the season in that competition.

Picture by YCCC. Kevin Bilcliffe (left) and Jamie Dillon open the batting for Yorkshire’s D40 Pursuit side at Neston yesterday.

From the Kia Oval, where it’s an overcast start to day four.

Yorkshire will resume at 11am on 185-6, trailing by 72 in their second innings.

They were going pretty well through the heart of the evening session yesterday, with James Wharton and Jonny Bairstow sharing a fourth-wicket 84 to take the score to 167-3. Unfortunately, 13 balls later, they were 169-6 and under the cosh again with a deficit of 88.

The glass half full view says, ‘Look at Essex last week, they survived the final day with six wickets in hand. It can be done’. The glass half empty view suggests, ‘Surrey are the champions, they have a relentless seam attack, survival is going to be tough’.

Let’s just hope it’s the former. If it is, you feel Bairstow’s going to have to do something remarkable in advancing from the 64 he currently has. Matthew Revis is at the crease with him, and there’s Jordan Thompson, Ben Coad and Jack White to come.

You can recap yesterday’s action via the match report and reaction piece embedded above.