JASON Gillespie is hoping one of injured trio Jack Brooks, Ryan Sidebottom and Matthew Fisher can make it back in time for Yorkshire’s County Championship match against Surrey at the Oval next month.

None of the three seamers will play in this weekend’s clash with Middlesex at Scarborough, with Brooks the most likely to return for the following round.

Brooks has not played since the Roses Championship match against Lancashire at the start of this month having torn a quad muscle.

Sidebottom has not played since the draw at Warwickshire in late April, where he suffered a fractured fibula in a footballing accident.

Fisher has not played at all this season having suffered a hamstring injury in pre-season followed by two recurrences.

All three were present at Durham last week and are back to bowling, although Sidebottom and Fisher only gently at this stage.

“The goal is, potentially, Surrey (July 11-14). I think it would be a win if one of them was available for that game,” said coach Gillespie.

“I think Jack’s a bit further on than the other two lads. He bowled well in the nets up at Durham, and he’ll be pushing hard. But we’ll have to wait and see.

“We want Fish to get a couple of games under his belt in the second team before we even consider selecting him for the first team.

“And Sid, we just have to build him up slowly but surely.

“The thing is, we’ve got that Surrey game and then there’s another big gap between Championship matches.

“If he’s not fit for that, he’ll just have to build up through the second-team.

“We might have a few lads back from England duty by the time that game comes, anyway.

“Judging on how the surfaces have been playing down at the Oval, and the team that Surrey have been playing with, a second spinner may come into the equation for that game, too.

“Matthew might just be starting to trundle through now and Sid is slowly giving it a go. He’s a little while away from playing yet.”

A debut 84 for opener Eliot Callis was the standout Yorkshire performance during yesterday’s opening day of the four-day friendly against Pakistan A at Headingley.

Callis, a 21-year-old from Doncaster, underpinned the inexperienced White Rose side’s close of play 243-8 from 73 overs, with rain curtailing the day.

The right-handed Academy player hit eleven fours in 157 balls, sharing half-century partnerships with Jack Leaning and Azeem Rafiq.

He shared 72 in 26 overs with Leaning, who made 33, to recover Yorkshire from 19-2 after they had been invited to bat first.

Opening partner and captain Alex Lees was one of the two early wickets, bowled for 17 as he left alone a big in-swinger from left-arm seamer Mir Hamza.

Callis then went on to add 65 inside 16 overs for the sixth wicket with Rafiq, who was the next best Yorkshire performer with 48 in his first first-class appearance for two years.

Callis, batsman Harry Brook, all-rounder Ryan Gibson and wicketkeeper Jonathan Read are all making their first-class debuts for Yorkshire.

The tourists have included four full internationals, with seamer Bilawal Bhatti the only man to have played Test cricket. He bowled Callis after tea.