Our duo help put Yorkshire on top in Royal bid

Eleanor Smith (Golcar, left) and Evie Woodhead (Honley) show off their title medals after winning with Yorkshire Under 17s. Below: With the team YORKSHIRE openers Shaun Marsh and Tom KohlerCadmore replied strongly with a three-figure partnership of their own after Surrey had posted a mammoth first innings total of 592 in the Specsavers County Championship match at the Kia Oval, in which Kumar Sangakkara and Ben Foakes had earlier completed superlative second-day hundreds.

At stumps Yorkshire had reached 171-1, with Marsh and Kohler-Cadmore putting on 162 in 48 overs of defiance to show clearly that there is plenty of fight left in the 2014 and 2015 champions as they strive to avoid a defeat that would drag them further into the scrap to avoid relegation from Division One.

Marsh remains 77 not out while Kohler-Cadmore made 78 before becoming a maiden championship scalp for Surrey’s 25-year-old slow leftarmer Freddie van den Bergh, who bowled tidily in a long spell from the Pavilion End but had to wait until the last ball of his 15th over for Kohler-Cadmore to slice to Ryan Patel, diving forward from backward point.

It was the highest opening partnership of the season for Yorkshire, beating the previous best of 61 and ironically it came from a makeshift pair only brought together because of the absence of Adam Lyth on paternity leave.