YORKSHIRE have reached tea on day one of their Specsavers County Championship match against Surrey at Scarborough at 185-6 from 64 overs.

The white rose lost four wickets in the session as Che Pujara (23), Harry Brook (0), Gary Ballance for 54 and Jack Leaning (21) fell.

Nineteen-year-old off-spinner Amar Virdi struck twice in three balls to get Pujara caught at short-leg and Brook lbw playing back to one that skidded on in the 37th over, leaving Yorkshire at 107-4.

Ballance has so far been Yorkshire’s top-scorer, and he reached 50 with a pulled six over mid-wicket off Virdi with his 60th delivery.

Unfortunately, however, he offered no shot to Rikki Clarke in the 48th over and was bowled as the score fell to 139-5.

In the 60th over, Leaning then miscued a pull at Jade Dernbach to deep mid-wicket with another 27 added to the total, but Jonny Tattersall is unbeaten on 25 with Tim Bresnan on 11.

Yorkshire had reached lunch at 76-2 from 28 overs.

A hugely competitive morning saw Yorkshire, who won the toss, lose openers Alex Lees for nought and Adam Lyth for 42 to new-ball duo Dernbach and Morne Morkel.

Lyth scored all of Yorkshire’s first 27 runs before a leg bye broke the sequence, while Pujara took 42 balls and 70 minutes to get off the mark and was still there on 19 at the interval.

Lees was caught and bowled off inside-edge and pad by Dernbach in the second over before Lyth uppishly drove Morkel to gully as Yorkshire slipped to 51-2 in the 20th.

Ballance began the afternoon alongside Pujara on 10.