YORKSHIRE'S bowlers were made to work hard for a solitary success on the third morning of their Specsavers County Championship Division One match against Middlesex at Scarborough.

Resuming on 130-2, the visitors had taken their score to 232-3 at lunch with Stevie Eskinazi unbeaten on 67 and John Simpson on 11 not out. 

The one wicket to fall was that of George Bailey, who was caught in the gully by Tim Bresnan for 62 when he failed to control an attempted cut off Will Rhodes.

That wicket fell 95 minutes into the session when Bailey and Eskinazi had taken their third-wicket stand to 121 and had brought Middlesex to a position of parity on 215-3.

The pair batted fluently, with Bailey being particularly hard on Steve Patterson and Azeem Rafiq but Rhodes brought a greater measure of control in an impressive 11-over spell costing 36 runs from the Trafalgar Square End.

Middlesex are now 174 behind Yorkshire’s first-innings total of 406 and have seven wickets in hand.