Yorkshire hit back with both bat and ball in the afternoon session of their LV= County Championship match against Durham at North Marine Road.

A last-wicket stand of 67 between Tim Bresnan and Ryan Sidebottom enabled Yorkshire to recover from 95-9 to post a first-innings score of 162 before Bresnan and Steve Patterson reduced Durham to 29-3 in reply.

Michael Richardson’s side were 48-3 at tea, with Scott Borthwick on eight not out and Richardson unbeaten on 11.

Yet the afternoon had begun badly for Yorkshire when Liam Plunkett and Patterson were dismissed by successive balls from Chris Rushworth.

However, Bresnan and Sidebottom both played with admirable common sense for an hour to add an immensely valuable 67 runs, with Bresnan making 47 before being yorked by Jamie Harrison.

That stand may have given Yorkshire’s bowlers the encouragement they needed but Mark Stoneman and Graham Clark had added 29 runs in nearly ten overs before three wickets fell for no runs in seven balls.

First Clark cut Tim Bresnan straight to Gary Ballance at backward point and departed for six; in the next over Stoneman hooked Patterson straight to Bresnan at long leg, the fielder taking a good tumbling catch, and then Gordon Muchall was leg-before to his first ball from Patterson, the ball coming back off the seam.