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Surrey manager Keith Medlycott

Ramprakash allows a Silverwood bouncer to pass by

But although the two Surrey openers played and missed several times, Yorkshire were kept waiting until Ward (70) dragged a ball from Silverwood into his stumps.

Butcher followed for 83 when he edged Kirby's first ball of the day to Matthew Wood in the slips, but when Stewart, on three, gave a similar chance to Chris Taylor off Ryan Sidebottom, he was unable to cling on.

It was an expensive miss as Stewart and Ramprakash cruised past their fifties, despite Darren Lehmann switching his bowlers around in search of a breakthrough.

The stand came to an end when Ramprakash was caught behind off Kirby for 65, and Stewart finally went with the score on 381, when he drove Fellows to Wood at cover, but he had done enough to keep his name in the minds of the England selectors.

Nadeem Shahid weighed in with 45, but Kirby picked up two more wickets in quick succession as Alex Tudor and Martin Bicknell were trapped lbw.

Pakistani all-rounder Azhar Mahmood produced some thoroughbred strokes in making an unbeaten 64 in just over two hours before Surrey were all out, having built a lead of 370.

Yorkshire: M J Wood, S A Richardson, M J Lumb, D S Lehmann (Capt) C R Taylor, G M Fellows, G M Hamilton, R J Blakey (Wkt) C E W Silverwood, R J Sidebottom, S P Kirby.

Surrey: M A Butcher (Capt), I J Ward, M R Ramprakash A J Stewart (Wkt), A D Brown, N Shahid, Azhar Mahmood, A J Tudor M P Bicknell, I D K Salisbury, J Ormond.

Umpires: G I Burgess and I J Gould