Yorkshire managed to avoid a record innings defeat at Headingley yesterday but still received a tongue lashing from new captain Darren Lehmann after capitulating to Surrey by an innings and 168 runs.

It was an embarrassing result for the County Champions at the end of a nightmare start to the season and Lehmann did not pull his punches.

"There is a lot of work for us to do because this was a very poor performance all round," said the Australian.

"The bowling was not good, although it improved on the second day, but our batting was even worse. In the first innings we showed no initiative in trying to play the sort of positive cricket which we want to do and in the second our top-order batsmen went too much the other way.

"Fortunately, we now have a run of one-day cricket coming up which is a good thing because we can go out and play our shots."

Rain prevented any play in the morning but Yorkshire were soon in dire trouble after an early lunch when they resumed on two wickets down without a run on the board.

Martin Bicknell quickly fired out three batsmen and when Gary Fellows fell lbw to James Ormond, Yorkshire were 67 for six and in grave danger of overtaking their previous heaviest Championship defeat of an innings and 272 against Surrey at The Oval in 1898. But they were spared their blushes by Chris Taylor who hit a maiden 50 and with able assistance from the later batsmen took the final score to 202 which was still the sixth heaviest innings loss in the club's history.

Taylor came in at 28 for four after Lehmann had patted back a catch to Bicknell for only a single. It meant that Lehmann had marked his first match as captain by scoring only 17 runs in the two innings, a figure not attained on only one previous occasion for Yorkshire and that was early in his first season in 1997 when he made five and ten.

After Bicknell's blast, most of the remaining damage was done by Azhar Mahmood.