Andrew Hodd’s resolute 62 followed by runs and wickets for Jack Brooks helped Yorkshire hit back from early strife against Nottinghamshire on day one of their Specsavers County Championship match at Emerald Headingley.

Yorkshire slipped to 93 for five before lunch following an uncontested toss.

But they finished the day with a total of 256 on the board and the visitors in bother at 53 for four from 19 overs.

Hodd laid the platform with eight fours in 116 balls, sharing 44 for the sixth wicket with Jack Leaning and 36 for the eighth with Josh Shaw.

Brooks then really turned things around.

The effervescent new ball seamer finished 30 not out, including a big six over long-off against Samit Patel’s left-arm spinners, before claiming three wickets.

The ex-Northants man is far from a mug with the bat.

Last season he scored a Roses Championship century at Old Trafford and added another during an intra-squad friendly on their pre-season tour of South Africa last month.

He shared 44 for the tenth wicket with new ball partner Ben Coad (18), who also struck early with the ball as Notts slipped to six for three.

After seven successive days of abandonments here, including the whole of last weekend’s Championship match against Essex due to a wet outfield, play finally got underway in glorious sunshine.

But conditions still favoured bowlers, with Yorkshire slipping from 25 without loss to 93 for five before lunch, including two wickets for Jake Ball.

He had Alex Lees caught at third slip and Gary Ballance caught at point, the latter for a nine-ball duck. Both were soft dismissals.

Harry Gurney finished with three wickets, but it was Ball’s new ball partner Luke Fletcher who finished with the pick of the figures, four for 47 from 18.1.

He trapped former team-mate Che Pujara, Yorkshire’s overseas Indian, lbw for just two before getting Leaning caught at second slip, Tim Bresnan lbw and Coad caught at cover following a miscue.

The Coad dismissal wrapped up Yorkshire’s innings midway through the evening, by which time two batting points had been secured when none looked likely.

That left Notts with a tricky session of batting. And tricky turned into nightmare within 19 balls.

Brooks struck twice in his first two overs, forcing Steven Mullaney to chop on for a two-ball duck and getting Chris Nash caught behind off the glove.

Coad then trapped Jake Libby lbw at the start of the fourth as the score fell to six for three.

New Zealand overseas Ross Taylor stemmed the tide with a fluent 34 not out, but Brooks trapped Patel lbw in the eleventh over as the score fell to 39 for four.