One former, forgotten England leg-spinner and a leg-spinner who appears just a step away from the international stage went head-to-head at Leeds yesterday, and it was experience that told over youth. Mind you, in hindsight, Martyn Moxon, Yorkshire's director of cricket - who had to fend off disapproval from a member during the break for rain - may want to know why Adil Rashid was only given six overs. The impact Rashid's opposite number, Chris Schofield had on this contest proved decisive. The 30-year-old, who also contributed 22 with the bat, has now taken seven wickets at 10.42 runs apiece in this year's Friends Provident Trophy. More significantly, Surrey are off and running.

In the space of 28 balls, Yorkshire collapsed from 78-2 to 83-7, starting with the wicket of the former England captain Michael Vaughan, who, opening the face, was caught behind off Grant Elliott in the 21st over. In the next, Anthony McGrath, sweeping, was trapped leg before by Schofield, who had Rana Naved-ul-Hasan caught at slip two overs later.

Chasing a target of 185 in 47 overs, the home side appeared as though they would complete the task at a canter when they raced to 42-1 in the eighth over thanks to some uncompromising batsmanship from the Pakistan all-rounder. Naved launched Jade Dernbach over mid-on for four in the fifth over, helped the same bowler over the slips to the third man boundary two overs later and despatched Pedro Collins for two fours square of the wicket in the eighth.

But thereafter the ball only found or cleared the rope four more times. Yorkshire never recovered from the departure of Naved, who launched Andre Nel over long-on for a maximum in the 13th over. After Rashid and Simon Guy both went in the 25th over, steady drizzle set in. When play resumed at 6.10pm, following a delay of an hour, the hosts needed an impossible 82 off 29 balls for victory.

Earlier, following a 45-minute delay for rain, Surrey won the toss and chose to bat. The Brown Caps opted to make two changes to the team that lost by one run to Durham on Sunday - Collins and Wilson coming in for Batty and Jordan. They did not make the best of starts, crumbling from 39 without loss to 47-3.

Scott Newman got off the mark with a pull for two off Deon Kruis, but in the second and third overs seemed to know little about the fours he edged to the third man boundary. In the seventh over Michael Brown played the first convincing stroke of the day when he threaded Kruis to the fence at backward point. But, in the next over, the former Hampshire man was lucky to avoid edging Naved on to his leg stump.

The Pakistani got his just desserts in the tenth over when his slower ball clipped the top of Brown's off peg. Three overs later Newman was caught behind off Richard Pyrah's seventh delivery. In the fourteenth over Mark Ramprakash, fresh from his unbeaten hundred at the Riverside, made just five before nibbling at Ajmal Shahzad, whose opening spell read 5-1-8-1.

At the other end Pyrah was also keeping things tight. His first spell read 7-1-12-2 and included the wicket of Usman Afzaal, who was caught low down to the wicketkeeper's left off an inside edge in the 21st over. Nine overs later, Guy made it four dismissals behind the stumps as Elliott was beaten by the turn after Rashid tossed one up.

But from being 82-5 in the 30th over, Surrey gained a foothold in the match thanks to an energetic and resourceful sixth wicket stand between Matthew Spriegel and Gary Wilson, who added 67 in thirteen overs while finding the boundary just three times.

Spriegel, who was put down on 2 and 5, made a one-day career best 56 not out from ninety balls and Wilson contributed 34 off forty before Pyrah ran the Irishman out off his own bowling in the 43rd over. Although it did not seem it at the time, Schofield's cameo with the bat was icing on the cake.

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