DURHAM needed 100 minutes to take the three remaining Surrey wickets at an overcast Oval this morning, then began their reply to 457 by reaching 17 without loss at lunch.

Ben Stokes bowled unchanged, steaming in for 11.4 overs to take the last two wickets and finish with four for 117 to go with his four for 80 against Middlesex.

To have any hope of victory, Durham needed to wrap up the tail quickly, but they made a poor start with Ben Foakes taking 12 off Chris Rushworth's opening over.

Foakes dominated the stand of 43 with skipper Gareth Batty before he became the fifth batsman to self-destruct when he chased a wide one from Carse and edged to Michael Richardson for 38.

After posting himself halfway back at mid-wicket, Paul Collingwood was unable to hang on to a fierce pull off Carse with Batty on 19.

The captain returned to slip for South African debutant Mat Pillans, who looked as though he could handle a bat, guiding Stokes over the slips to that unpatrolled third man boundary.

He made 15 before playing back and edging Stokes low to Scott Borthwick at second slip.

With last man Matthew Dunn for company, Batty had a few lusty swipes while trying to farm the strike. He hooked Stokes for six over the short boundary in front of the gas holder to bring up the 450.

But when he stepped back in an attempt to swish through the off sid he was bowled for 40.

Borthwick had replaced Carse and looked unlucky not to have Dunn lbw. Umpire Billy Taylor was again not in a giving mood and also turned down a big appeal by Tom Curran against Keaton Jennings.

Mark Stoneman twice drove Dunn to the cover boundary in reaching 11 at lunch with Jennings on four.