Josh Blake’s unbeaten double century helped Surrey take charge of the game on the third day at York.
York CC’s Will Fraine – who was called up on the second day as a replacement for the injured Ben Geddes, walked out with Banbury’s Kieran Coyne to eat away at the deficit.
The score reached 26 before Coyne was caught at second slip off the bowling of Mullapudi.
Captain Josh Blake joined Will Fraine looked to score immediately. The York CC local passed 50 before he gloved a sharp Wade bouncer behind to depart for 56.
Ollie Sykes entered and scored 33 from 36 balls before Wade strangled him down the leg side to leave Surrey 169/3.
Blake was joined by Ashane Wijesuriya and the pair regularly found the boundary with some attractive strokeplay. Wijesuriya was particularly severe against the spin of Vagadia and Akhtar.
Blake’s knock was full of characteristic pulls and flicks and he looked in fine touch.
Wijesuriya – who is part of the South Asian Cricket Academy, moved to his century from 125 balls in the 62nd over. Captain Blake moved to his century an over later with a lovely cover drive off the spin bowling of Hen-Boisen. His nine boundaries highlighted his hard running between the wicket.
Wijesuriya was finally dismissed by Matt Fisher, caught in the slips. Majid followed soon after. Bowled by Fisher but Blake found support from Tommy Ealham and continued to pile on the runs.
Blake passed two hundred with a lovely clip through midwicket for four as Surrey headed towards 500.
Ealham was dismissed for 26 going for an extravagant reverse sweep before a cameo from Nathan Barnwell saw the number eight take 16 runs off just seven balls before a mix up between the batters ended with Barnwell run out.
Surrey closed the day on 503/7 with Josh Blake 210*, leading Yorkshire by 407.
