Date-stamped : 16 Jun97 - 10:20 By Charles Randall at the Oval Surrey (199-5) bt Yorkshire (198-9) by 5 wkts SURREY, thanks to a well-paced 100 from Graham Thorpe, kept their hopes of retaining the Sunday title alive on a day so dark that the Oval could have done with early delivery of the floodlights they are due to instal next week. Spectators gained from an attention span incentive; the previ- ous week`s pledge of four cans of Foster`s lager if Surrey won - and eight if they lost, as the joke might have gone - was re- peated, and Yorkshire, who were sponsored by brewers of good En- glish beer, obliged and set their own title hopes back in the process. Darren Lehmann`s 56 off 55 balls for Yorkshire might have been decisive, but Thorpe`s inspired run-a-ball innings proved to be Surrey`s beacon in a partnership of 103 in 16 overs with Ben Hol- lioake. The game did not finish until 7.40pm after a specially extend- ed interval when the teams were presented to the Duchess of Kent, patron of Yorkshire. Alec Stewart seemed to lose sight of the delivery by Chris Silverwood that rocked back his middle stump, and occasionally fielders in the deep would focus on the ball comically late. Surrey`s target looked awkward even after it had been reduced by three runs during the interval; a scorers` mix-up had to be rec- ti- fied after the umpire`s `one short` signal against Alex Mor- ris, the York- shire batsman, had been misread as a no-ball. It was quite dark even then. Source :: The Electronic Telegraph (http://www.telegraph.co.uk/) Contributed by The Management (help@cricinfo.com)