IT’S all happening in Yorkshire. After the Grand Depart it’s the Great Yorkshire Show, both at Harrogate and Headingley.

Maximum bonus points took the cricketers level with Nottinghamshire at the top of the LV=County Championship yesterday and they can forge 16 points clear if they complete a deserved win against Durham today.

Following on 195 behind after succumbing for 231, Durham battled through 26 overs to reach 59 for one and skipper Paul Collingwood feels the pitch does not help their chances of survival.

“I’m surprised Yorkshire have taken a punt on producing a pitch like that at this stage of the season,” he said.

“It’s not a typical Headingley pitch and it’s getting harder to bat on. We did quite well to reach 231.”

Collingwood’s comments made it all the more surprising that he chose to bowl first on winning the toss, but he added: “Nobody knew how it was going to play. The difference has been that we didn’t bowl well enough in the first two sessions.”

While England search for someone to solve their spin bowling dilemma, the match has offered Adil Rashid the chance to re-stake his claim.

He took four for 75, bowling with more control than rival leg-spinner Scott Borthwick, although the Durham man does offer the more complete all-round package.

After playing in the final Ashes Test in Sydney last winter, Borthwick knows he will only get back into the England side as a spinner and he is hoping to benefit from a two-hour coaching session he enjoyed with Shane Warne at Lord’s last week.

“It was absolutely amazing to spend time with him and hear his thoughts on how he gets people out,” he said.

“It was the third time I’ve worked with him but to spend so long with a man who is my hero and an absolute legend was absolutely perfect.”

Bradford-born Rashid has looked a Test prospect since taking six wickets on his Yorkshire debut at Scarborough eight years ago, when he was 18.

But after five one-day and five Twenty20 international appearances in 2009 he was messed around by England, to the annoyance of his Yorkshire boss Martyn Moxon, and his bowling suffered.

It has been a long haul back and, like Borthwick, he still doesn’t get enough opportunity to practise cricket’s most difficult art.

Prior to yesterday he had taken 12 championship wickets this season, having missed the last two games on paternity leave.

“I bowled quite well in patches and it was nice to get some overs under my belt,”

he said. “I feel I’m coming into form as the wickets get drier.”

Rashid appeared to disagree with Collingwood when he said: “We bowled exceptionally well on a pitch which wasn’t doing very much.”