YORKSHIRE managed to avoid a record innings defeat at Headingley yesterday but still received a tongue lashing from new captain Darren Lehmann after capitulating to Surrey by an innings and 168 runs.

"There is a lot of work for us to do because this was a very poor performance all round," said the Australian.

"The bowling was not good, although it improved on the second day, but our batting was even worse. In the first innings we showed no initiative in trying to play the sort of positive cricket which we want to do and in the second our top-order batsmen went too much the other way.

"Fortunately, we now have a run of one-day cricket coming up which is a good thing because we can go out and play our shots."

Chris Taylor hit a maiden 50 and with able assistance from the later batsmen took the final score to 202 which was still the sixth heaviest innings loss in the club's history.

SCOREBOARD

Frizzell County Championship

Division One

Yorkshire v Surrey

at Headingley

Yorkshire first innings: 140 (A J Tudor 4-31)

Surrey first innings: 510 (Stewart 96, Kirby 5-129)

Yorkshire Second Innings

Wood c Stewart b Bicknell 0

Richardson b Tudor 0

Sidebottom not out 14

Lumb c Bicknell b Tudor 15

Lehmann c&b Bicknell 1

Taylor not out 52

Fellows lbw b Ormond 24

Hamilton lbw b Azhar M 7

Blakey c A Brown b Ormond 31

Silverwood b Azhar Mahmood 38

Kirby lbw Azhar Mahmood 2

Extras lb4 nb6 18

Total (57.3 overs) 202

Fall: 1-0 2-0 3-20 4-28 5-32 6-67 7-80 8-129 9-188

Bowling: Bicknell 14-4-43-3, Tudor 15-3-72-2, Ormond 11.2-50-2, Azhar Mahmood 13.3-5-18-3, Butcher 4-0-21-0

Umpires: G I Burgess and I J Gould

Surrey (20pts) beat Yorkshire (3pts) by an innings ands 168 runs

Updated: 11:04 Saturday, April 27, 2002