| LV= County Championship Division One, The Micky Stewart Oval (day three) |
| Surrey 333: Pope 136, Clark 55; Patterson 4-69 & 55-0: Burns 30* |
| Yorkshire 179: Kohler-Cadmore 55, Tattersall 45*; Lawes 4-31 & 208: Lyth 46, Bess 43; Worrall 4-61 |
| Surrey (22 pts) beat Yorkshire (3 pts) by 10 wickets |
| Match scorecard |
They won their 20th County Championship title by beating Yorkshire in three days.
The skipper hit 30 in 16 balls as the hosts made the 55 necessary to win.
Hampshire lost to Kent by 77 runs, making it possible forurrey to win the title.
Yorkshire had resumed on 89-2 and Dan Worrall had finished with 3-61.
They won the trophy with a game to spare as they won for the eighth time this summer.
The chances of Yorkshire turning the match around were dealt a blow when Tom Kohler-Cadmore was trapped in front by Cameron Steel.
Adam and Will fell in the space of two balls.
Jordan Clark jagged one back off the seam to bowl Fraine before Roach swung one away to remove the former England Test opener.
There was a legside lifter that kept a little low into Jordan Thompson's pads and a legside lifter that kept a little high into Ben Foakes.
Dom Bess fought hard with 43 from 71 balls, but was only able to hold off a rising ball from Roach to Foakes.
Ben Mike and Steve Patterson were the last two people to be taken down by the bowler.
It took captain Burns and opening partner Ryan Patel only 36 balls to get the runs they needed to start the celebrations.
Mark Baldwin is a reporter for the European Central Bank.
Eleven of the 22 players who have appeared for the county this season are from the county's age group teams and their academy.
One of those players, 19-year-old seamer Tom Lawes, is top of their Championship bowling averages with 18 pins at an average of 20.00 from the first five matches he has played in.
The triumph has been based on a deep batting order and a relentless fast bowling attack, in which Worrall now has 39 takes at 24.15, Roach 25 at 24.06, Overton 33 at 24.72 and Clark 30 at 33.86.
As in this match, they have often put five frontline pace bowlers in their championship XIs, and that's because of the fact that one of them is a product of the youth system of the county.
In their only meeting this season, the long-time Championship leaders beat Hampshire by a large margin.
There's more to come.
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