Even Darren Gough in his wildest dreams could not have foreseen that in his first game as captain Yorkshire would travel to the Oval and crush much-fancied Surrey by 346 runs in the opening LV Championship match of the season.

It was a massacre on an epic scale, the fourth highest runs win in Championship history for Yorkshire and the second heftiest defeat for Surrey. It also brought Yorkshire a maximum 22 points and resulted in a shoal of records which have stood the test of time being rewritten.

Nearly everyone played their part at some stage of the game but on the final day it was Gough himself and Matthew Hoggard who tore apart Surrey and sent them packing for a mere 170 as early as 2.20pm.

Hoggard was in his best England form as he grabbed 4-34 in 12 hostile overs and Gough bowled like he did in his prime to capture 3-50, including the vital wicket in the morning of fellow Strictly Come Dancing champion Mark Ramprakash, who was made to look leaden-footed as he was palpably lbw with clever reverse swing.

Obviously delighted to get the better of Ramprakash, Gough said with a smile: "There was a lot of talk about the dancing rivalry but it was with mixed emotions that I got him out because he is in my fantasy team." After a pause, he added: "But so am I, so terrific."

Gough said Yorkshire's performance had been as near perfect as one could get on a pitch which was so good that you could play Test cricket on it. "We fought back from 73-4 because we bat all the way down and the way that Adil Rashid bowled in the first innings showed great maturity," he added.

"In the second innings we played as good cricket as it is possible to play, first setting the target we wanted and then producing some awesome seam bowling with reverse swing on a very flat pitch. I thought at the start of the day that Adil would be our trump card but it turned out to be the seamers.

"We intended to send out a message to our opponents that we are a good team and we have done that. I would like to play every match like this and although we will lose some games we will win some as well."

Gough also revealed that he had spoken to England captain Michael Vaughan, who had confirmed to him that he wanted to play for Yorkshire as soon as possible in order to get his batting form back.

He thought that Vaughan was due to return to England on Wednesday, the day that Yorkshire start their Championship match against Durham at Headingley Carnegie.

Gough added: "Vaughnie is a world-class player and a world-class captain and it will be interesting for me to captain a side with him in it."