surrey vs Northamptonshire county Championship division 2

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Chris Adams has named a thirteen man Surrey squad to take on Northamptonshire at Wantage Road in the LV= County Championship.
George Edwards replaces Matthew Dunn who is suffering with shin soreness in the only change to the squad that defeated Leicestershire last week at Grace Road.
The full Surrey squad to play Northamptonshire is:
Rory Hamilton-Brown (Captain)
Steven Davies (Wicket Keeper)
Mark Ramprakash
Zander de Bruyn
Tom Maynard
Jason Roy
Gareth Batty
Chris Jordan
Zafar Ansari
Tim Linley
Stuart Meaker
Pragyan Ojha
George Edwards
river should not even be in the squad in my opion
as for the last spot zaffer for me edges out (edwards) whom i'm sure guildford can tell us all about

how has meaker bowled in this game?

After being poor for most of the season, Davies certainly seems to have flourished since being moved up to open the batting.

davies opens the batting in CC?

cricketfan

5fer in the first innings, including 4 wickets in 7 deliveries.

Good mornings for both us and yourselves

Evrine just gone for 98 off 117 balls

Another 50 for the Brain

Does anyone know if Sky are showing our semi final on Sunday on the Telebox?!

It's on the red button from the other semi-final.

Cheers jbd!

Hampshire bring up the 600

Gloucs lost 8 for 52 this morning.
Ho hum.

Well batted Interesting Davies! ton up

314 lead at lunch - if we can bat til tea I'd declare then, 400/450 lead. 4 sessions for Le Pew and Nora to 'spin' us to victory!

lol surrey should defo have enough spinners to finish the job, i have never seen a squad with so many spinners

Probably our best batting session of the season. Well done to Davies and Brain. Great to see Davies with three figures by his name in a Championship innings.

Goochie - sure I'm going to regret asking this but .... Le Pew?

Pepe Le Pew AKA P P Ojha

If only promotion were based on the best nicknames!

Glammy are 3-3 v Gloucs.
Maybe there's hope yet...

Chris nipped in before me Guildford!
Blimey - we've got on with it since lunch, 381 lead now!

Corporal, re your generous offer (on the other thread) of Gary Wilson... please can we have this Davies bloke instead? He seems to be in a bit of form at the moment!

Great timing from Chris, Davies is now out for a rather fab 156

Ooops. Sorry.

thegooch7 wrote:Chris nipped in before me Guildford!

Thanks, Goochie and Chris.

Knew it was Ojha, just couldn't figure out where the nick name came from!

ChrisfromStroud wrote:Corporal, re your generous offer (on the other thread) of Gary Wilson... please can we have this Davies bloke instead? He seems to be in a bit of form at the moment!

Chris - I think the Corporal would be facing a court martial if he agreed to that!

Meanwhile, you have four Glamorgan batsmen back in the hutch second time round including our one time skipper Stewie Walters ....

Afternoon chaps

Hi Jimbob

It's looking good! I reckon we declare when Brain gets his ton (or gets out!) setting them 450+

Should be right with that gooch though might be tempted to let Roy have a quick knock before Sunday

Burton going for a burton

wine gums run out with the brain on 99 will we declare

Surely not! That quick knock of Roy's might be extremely quick!!

100 for the brain right gooch let roy get a fifty 1st then declare

Well batted Brain

looks like we want a 500 lead just to be on the safe side

oh well at least surrey tried to let roy get a 50

tea 485 lead

that's got to be the dec hasn't it?!

Should be though they might let Nora have a quick knock before Sunday

Hants steamrolling Somerset easy easy easy

Afternoon all. Patrol called off early for the weekend. This is more like the Surrey batting we were hoping for this season....

Chris - Interesting Davies - definitely not for sale!

The Viscount gets Newton!

That's 62 first class wickets this season and 100 in his career. Proof that sometimes the good guys come out on top. Many - including me - underrated his ability which together with his great attitude, teamwork and unrelenting hard graft will surely get him our Player of the Season Award.

Well done, Viscount!

Glamorgan 148 all out.
18 wickets so far today at Bristol.
When do the pitch inspectors get called in?
Rees c †Coughtrie, Bragg c †Coughtrie, Walters c †Coughtrie,
Allenby c †Coughtrie, Wallace c †Coughtrie, Harris c †Coughtrie
Who needs an Interesting keeper anyway...

Strange that after getting 5 wkts in the 1st innings that meaker was not given the new ball

He should be more demanding of the captain.
Perhaps he was too quiet and gentle......

2 wickets for Ohja And of course to the Viscount for reaching his landmark....

Now Meaker strikes as well - we've made decent inroads tonight. So looks promising for tomorrow - even if the Northants tail wags more vigorously than first time round

Are you going to claim the extra half hour tonight?

ChrisfromStroud wrote:Are you going to claim the extra half hour tonight?

Close of play - doubt that any umpire would agree extra half hour with 6 wickets to fall - (unless it was the Surrey tail). More to the point perhaps was whether Gloucs would claim their extra half hour

On a day when 18 wickets had already gone, I think Gloucs would have rather feared an extra half-hour.
As it was, they lost a wicket in the penultimate over....
and sent out a nightwatchman....
who had lasted just 3 balls batting at 11 in the 1st innings.

Do I recall some opinions earlier today on the merits of a nightwatchman?

am i the only one who thinks meaker is overrated?

when i see him on sky he sprays it everyhwrere..

sure he has pace, but his radar has been off most of the time?

I do wonder whether you actually read any threads before commenting on them, cricketfan. Meaker is very talented and very quick but his accuracy lets him down sometimes. He started this season on fire and took 20 odd wickets @ 18 in the CC before he got an injury. Since then he has been poor and failed to reproduce this form until yesterday when he took 5-37 including a triple wicket maiden.

Brilliant day for Surrey today, Davies finally found his form and now has over 380 runs from his last 3 innings! I really hope that we stick with him and Hyphen opening in all forms of the game for a good while as I have been very encouraged since the move to promote Davies in the CC.

Also, massive congratulations to the Viscount, amazing season!

What do peoplethink about Davies' chances of making the Winter Tours?

Until a few weeks ago, I would have said no chance as he had been poor and not picked in any of the Lions squads, however the fact that his return to form has coincided with him being moved to open the innings means that there is a chance that he could be taken; he could cover for Cook/Strauss aswell as Prior (and there are not many other reserve openers setting the world alight at the moment).

"Kids go for free as Glos chase for victory tomorrow" says the Gloucs website.
Well, that's put the kibosh on that then!
What says the Surrey one about Northants chasing 500?