Yorkshire 594-9 & 266-7 dec Surrey 344 & 47-1: Gough piles on misery for Brown Hats

Darren Gough's Yorkshire reminded Surrey how tough it can be in the top flight as he inspired his team into a commanding position yesterday. Having mopped up the Surrey first innings with a wicked spell of fast bowling, proving that there is still life in him, and that he is not yet that old a dog either, Gough, eschewing the enforcement of the follow-on, then instructed his batsmen to pile on the runs in the Yorkshire second innings.

And pile them on they did, to the extent that when Surrey emerged in the evening sunshine they faced a near-impossible task of chasing 517 runs in a minimum of 109 overs for victory. That task was rendered harder with the loss of the opener Jon Batty, caught at silly point off the last ball of the day. The highest victorious fourth innings Surrey have achieved was 410 to beat Kent in 2002, although chasing 536 to beat Leicester in 2001 they made a fist of it, reaching 478 for 9.

Yorkshire's second innings was one of contrasts. Craig White and Joe Sayers began prudently, only gradually stepping up the momentum from cautious, through confident to carefree ­ this last mode was underlined by the details of White's hundred, 11 fours and seven sixes ­ by the time Sayers departed after making a sound fifty.

White's 131-ball ton created a little bit of history, by helping Yorkshire become the first team to score four Championship hundreds against Surrey. His effort also took the match total to six centuries ­ only the fourth time that has happened in matches involving Surrey.

There was one bright spot for Surrey as Nayan Doshi, their left-arm spinner finished with 6 for 111.

The loss of Mark Ramprakash half an hour into the day put paid to any lingering hopes Surrey might have had of passing the follow-on figure of 444, not that that indignity was enforced by Gough. He felt that a daunting victory target on a deteriorating pitch against the leg spin of Adil Rashid would prove too much.

The only consolation for Ramprakash, who was caught behind from a Jason Gillespie delivery, was that he reached the 88th hundred of his first-class career.

The acting captain, Rikki Clarke, carried on the good work with Azhar Mahmood, but Gough was irrepressible and a burst of three wickets in 10 balls to account for Clarke, Jimmy Ormond and Steve Magoffin, a spell interrupted only by Matthew Hoggard dismissing Azhar, left the Brown Hats 250 runs adrift.