Batters on both sides tuck into Scarborough feast

CIARAN MCCARTHY AT SCARBOROUGH: Jonny Tattersall was left stranded on 180, though he genuinely looked as if he could have batted all day

Scarborough (second day of four): Yorkshire 521, Surrey 191-1 - Surrey trail by 330 runs with nine first-innings wickets remaining

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Both batting units' fortunes fared considerably better than the bowlers on either side, as 348 were scored on the second day at Scarborough for just six wickets.

Yorkshire started the second day on 364 for 5, with Adam Lyth and Jonny Tattersall set, having both reached centuries yesterday.

Tattersall picked up where he left off after a 40-minute rain delay, allowing the Surrey bowlers to play into his strengths. Had you never watched him bat, you'd quickly have become familiar with where he likes to play, mainly through the leg side. Naturally, he left well, and deposited anything straighter than his off-stump away to the on-side boundary.

Lyth found it harder to get back into his fluency. If yesterday was his Cars, today was his Cars 2 – not bad, but trying slightly too hard to replicate the heights of the previous iteration. Tow Mater doesn't need to be involved in international espionage: just take the shine off the new ball and accumulate; after Lyth made 150 yesterday, though, he obviously wanted to pick up where he left off.

While he was scratchy, playing and missing at balls which a day ago he would have sent to the fence, he still managed to play his shots. A pull halfway into the Popular Stand from a Conor McKerr short ball was almost a carbon copy of the same shot he played yesterday, against the same bowler.

He and Tattersall, though more so the latter, scored well, despite Surrey finding some better areas than they did for much of yesterday. As the runs ticked on, more landmarks approached; Lyth's six brought him and Tattersall to within three of a record sixth-wicket partnership for Yorkshire, and the next over, it arrived; Lyth usurping his and Adil Rashid's total of 296 at Old Trafford in 2014.

^{Jonny Tattersall was left unbeaten in Yorkshire's innings (James Chance/Getty Images)}

Whispers of a record stand at Scarborough followed, but soon fizzled out as Lyth – attempting to dispatch a second six of the day – picked out Tom Lawes off the bowling of McKerr. Mike Gatting and Mark Ramprakash's record partnership of 321 has stood for 29 years, and remains unbroken, with Lyth and Tattersall 16 runs short.

Tattersall's wish to improve the run rate was no more obvious than it was yesterday, even as he passed 150, though his next couple of partners displayed their fluid natures at the crease. Dom Bess was inventive, paddling and scooping on his way to 29 from 38, before he gloved Will Jacks onto his stumps – the turn and bounce the part timer extracted bittersweet for the departing batter, as he would later use the conditions to his benefit.

Jordan Thompson's innings mimicked the Mario Balotelli-esque rain mac troubles endured by a member of the crowd; fun to start with – hitting two fours off his first two balls – but only for a short period, before Lawes trapped him leg before wicket – Thompson, not the bloke in the crowd.

Lawes was the pick of Surrey's bowlers, finishing with 4 for 51, seeing the back of Steve Patterson (7), caught behind for his third wicket of the innings, and making a mess of Shannon Gabriel's stumps for his fourth, and the final wicket of the day, on the West Indian's first ball as a Yorkshire player. Yorkshire ended the first innings on 521, their highest score since they faced Kent in May.

Tattersall was left stranded on 180, though he genuinely looked as if he could have batted all day. A declaration may have been close – as Yorkshire's host of draws in this season’s Championship were no doubt playing on their minds – but likely not before the question of whether Tattersall could make like a London bus and pass 100 twice in an innings, after waiting for one for so long for one, was answered.

After a tight first couple of overs by Thompson and Gabriel for Yorkshire, Surrey got into the swing of things. While Rory Burns' technique may not be the prettiest, he played some wonderful textbook cricket strokes early on, starting with a lovely straight drive off Thompson.

Burns can have done his bid to regain a place in the England side no harm, as he picked length expertly, and flayed multiple lovely drives towards the fence; he made his way to an elegant 50 in just 59 balls.

^{It was tough toil for bowlers on both sides... (Stu Forster/Getty Images)}

As has been the case with the bowling for much of this game, Yorkshire hit their spots too little, and the pacers were met with no rewards. Gabriel shared the same fate as many of the Surrey bowlers yesterday when bowling down the slope, as he struggled to keep his feet behind the line, overstepping five times in his opening spell.

Bess – after having been dismissed by spin himself – was thrown the ball more often than the rest of Yorkshire's attack, bowling 14 overs. That paid dividends when he tossed one up and turned it away from Ryan Patel, who, after having skipped down the track, was left stranded, and was stumped for 29 – not before blasting Bess for a big six in his previous over, though.

Gabriel's sword was double-edged; he bowled some very good deliveries, at a good pace, in between some poor stuff. It was a marriage of both of those aspects that made for one of the biggest moments of the evening session, as the exasperated quick no-balled for the ninth time, and just so happened to find the edge of Burns' bat, where it was guided into Will Fraine's hands at first slip. You'd have expected a fully-fledged international with 161 Test wickets to stand out from the rest of the attack and be a point of difference for Yorkshire, but he was not.

Burns edged towards a century towards the close, continuing in his elegant manner. Hashim Amla was the man alongside him at the end of play, negating any threat from the bowling attack as Yorkshire switched between pace and spin, though to little effect. Bat was clearly the dominant force, as it was on the first day, and there have as yet been few signs that that it will cease to dominate tomorrow.

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