ADIL RASHID and Tim Bresnan were set to return for Yorkshire against Surrey today after impressing for England Lions against India, with Deon Kruis replacing the injured Matthew Hoggard.

Craig White was also back in place of England captain Michael Vaughan, who is on Test duty, for the LV County Championship Division match at Headingley.

And wicketkeeper Gerard Brophy was due to play for the leaders despite a broken finger.

While Joe Sayers was looking to get back to the crease after spending virtually the last month sat the dressing room and not out in the middle where he likes to be.

A mixture of Twenty20 cricket and bad weather has restrictedn the opener to just a couple of innings since mid-June, and neither was the sort of epic that the 23-year-old has made his trademark.

Sayers is not worried that the long absences will have eroded the form that brought him three centuries in five championship matches as table-topping Yorkshire try to overcome the disappointment of Wednesday’s Twenty20 exit as they host Surrey today.

Surrey have named the same XI which beat Durham last week.

Leg-spinner Chris Schofield retains his place ahead of Nayan Doshi, who has left the county.

Yorkshire went into the match with a one-point lead over Sussex. Surrey are second-bottom.

Yorkshire (from): White Sayers, McGrath, Younas, Rudolph, Brophy, Guy, Rashid, Bresnan, Gough, Gillespie, Kruis.

Surrey: Newman, Batty, Ramprakash, Butcher, Walters, Clarke, Schofield, Nicholson, singh, Saker, Dembach.