Surrey's seamers pointed the way to the Brown Caps' second successive victory in the Pro40 League. With five Yorkshire batsmen averaging over forty in one-day cricket this season and a certain Inzamam-ul-Haq making his limited-overs debut for the Tykes, it came as no surprise when the hosts elected to bat first in front of a packed and partisan Scarborough crowd. What could not possibly have been foreseen, however, was the spectacular manner in which the Phoenix would then slide to 58-8.

Had it not been for a spirited 49 not out from 53 balls by Darren Gough, who hit five fours and two sixes, the game would have been a throwback to the Twenty20 Cup. The Yorkshire captain, in alliance with David Wainwright, put on 72 in sixteen overs, thus setting a new competition record for the ninth wicket against Surrey. But with Scott Newman and James Benning putting on 60 in eight overs at the top of the Brown Caps' reply, the result was a formality long before Jonathan Batty hit the winning runs for the visitors, who cruised to victory with five wickets and nearly eleven overs in hand.

Yorkshire, who remain serious contenders in both the first division of the LV County Championship and Division Two of the NatWest Pro40 League, had even greater cause for concern when Gough limped off after managing to send down just two overs, to have ice-pack treatment on a sore shin.

The rot began in the third over when Jacques Rudolph was caught at short fine-leg off Matt Nicholson. Four overs later Craig White went to an acrobatic catch by Batty behind the stumps to spark a collapse that saw seven wickets fall for 29 runs in the space of ten overs.

Gerard Brophy became the first of Chris Jordan's three wickets when he was caught at mid-off in the eighth over. Mohammad Akram then switched to the Pavilion End and in six overs his figures went from 3-0-22-0 to 6-0-27-3 as Anthony McGrath was trapped in front, Tim Bresnan was bowled and Rich Pyrah was also adjudged leg before.

Having accounted for Inzamam in the twelfth over, Jordan then picked up the scalp of Andrew Gale in the sixteenth. That brought Gough to the crease. In the process of giving his bowlers something to defend, the former England fast bowler launched Chris Schofield for two sixes over mid-wicket. Wainwright contributed 26 off 49 balls before picking out Jordan on the mid-wicket boundary off the bowling of Harbhajan Singh.

In reply, Benning, in particular, latched on to some short-pitched bowling from Matthew Hoggard. The 24-year-old raced to 25 in twelve deliveries, but in the eighth over, attempting a pull, he fell leg before to Bresnan.

Pyrah and Wainwright both started with maidens. Frustrated by this, Scott Newman holed out to the latter on the mid-wicket boundary in the fourteenth over. In the next over Newman was followed back to the pavilion by Stewart Walters, who became the fifth and last batsman to be adjudged leg before wicket.

Alistair Brown, trying cut a ball that went on with the arm, was bowled by Wainwright for ten in the eighteenth over. It was therefore left to Mark Butcher to hit the 22-year-old slow left-armer out of the attack and guide his side home, which Butcher had all but done when he was stumped for 34 eleven overs later.

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