SCARBOROUGH

(second day of four; Sussex won toss):

Scarborough (second day of four; Sussex won toss): Sussex 265 (82.1 overs, AJ Hodd 81, CD Nash 78, AU Rashid 4-56); Yorkshire 133-7 (47 overs, JA Rudolph 41, JD Lewry 3-27)

Lunch

A splendid morning with the ball for Yorkshire, and especially for Adil Rashid whose 4-56 carried his tally over the last eight weeks to 35 wickets at 24.17 in seven championship games, saw Sussex dismissed for 265. Advancing with few concerns to 227-4 in the first seven overs, Sussex then lost their last six batsmen for 38 runs in 55 mesmerised minutes.

But Yorkshire's delight waned slightly before lunch when Andrew Gale, trying to play Jason Lewry's full-length outswinger to leg, was pinned in front for three. At least Michael Vaughan avoided a fifth duck in ten innings with a sumptious off-driven four in Mohammad Sami's second over as a Sussex bowler but, without addition, two balls later, he should have been held at third slip off the same man.

Rashid continued to exploit pronounced turn, earlier, to have Andrew Hodd for 81 and Robin Martin-Jenkins in consecutive balls before Carl Hopkinson tried to turn a full ball from Rana Naved-ul-Hasan and fell leg-before for 15.

Sami also perished leg-before, sweeping at Rashid, and Corey Collymore came and went in bizarre circumstances when, attempting to whip Rashid through mid-wicket, his leading edge rebounded off Adam Lyth's knee and ran him out. Jason Lewry, reluctant to get into line against his old team-mate, Rana, was comprehensively bowled for one.

Early tea

Sadly, heavy showers restricted the afternoon's play to only five overs and an early tea was ordered for 2.40pm - but there was time enough for Vaughan's wretched form to continue. Unable to profit from his earlier reprieve, the former England captain failed to add to his 19 runs at lunch from the three balls he faced before edging the next to the wicketkeeper in the afternoon's second over.

Fine bowling from Lewry, who followed two consecutive inswingers with the fatal ball that swung away, would have accounted for batsmen in far better touch than Vaughan, a fact that was scant consolation for him when the rain arrived 15 minutes later. Yorkshire, with eight wickets standing, were then 230 runs in arrears.

Close

Yorkshire soon had grounds to regret the resumption at 4pm, losing two wickets in 25 minutes and a further three in the last 13 overs. Collymore's inswing unseated Anthony McGrath for 16 and Lewry concluded his 12-over, new-ball burst (albeit interrupted by lunch and a 2½-hour stoppage) with three for 27 when he had Lyth, driving at an outswinger, caught behind for nine.

He had also seen Jacques Rudolph dropped off his bowling on six and the South African was again the only source of Yorkshire resistance until removed by a beauty from Ollie Rayner, the off-spinner, for 41 approaching the close.

At Rashid's Peasholm Park End, Rayner, who should also have had Tim Bresnan for seven in his first over, found the bounce and turn to brush the left-hander's outside edge. By then, Bresnan had fallen for 19 to Martin-Jenkins's fourth ball and, with 21 balls left, a mixed day for Rashid ended when the same bowler claimed him at slip for one.