YORKSHIRE suffered a morning to forget at Scarborough as Nottinghamshire dominated the opening session of their County Championship clash.

With captain Andrew Gale having pulled out due to a back injury after failing a late fitness test, the Tykes were then reduced to 97-6 by lunch.

Notts captain Chris Read inserted Yorkshire into bat, with openers Adam Lyth and Alex Lees making a steady start before the former player was dismissed in the most unfortunate of fashions.

Lyth, having made his way to 12, could only watch as a drive from Lees was deflected onto the stumps at the non-striker's end by bowler Steven Mullaney – and from there, the home side's top order collapsed in dramatic fashion.

Lees (13) was the next to go as he edged Mullaney to Brendan Taylor at third slip, before Jake Lehmann (5) fell in similar fashion to the same bowler, with Samit Patel taking the catch in the cordon.

Gary Ballance, who is captaining the side for the first time in Championship cricket in Gale's absence, could muster only a single before he was trapped lbw by Luke Fletcher to leave Yorkshire reeling on 36-4.

That became 51-6 as Tim Bresnan offered no shot to Mullaney and was adjudged lbw, before Jack Leaning edged Brett Hutton to Patel at third slip.

This left Andrew Hodd (15no) and Azeem Rafiq (31no) the task of seeing the hosts through to the interval.