surrey vs nottinghamshire county championship

Team Director Chris Adams has named a thirteen man squad for the LV=County Championship game against Nottinghamshire at Trent Bridge starting on Wednesday.
Jon Lewis is named in the squad as are Jade Dernbach and Chris Tremlett who did not feature in the five wicket loss to Durham at the Kia Oval
gary keedy has been left out fight back the tears chaps
The Surrey squad to play Nottinghamshire at Trent Bridge in the LV=County Championship on Wednesday 15th May, Thursday 16th May, Friday 17th May and Saturday 18th May:
Gareth Batty (capt)
Rory Burns
Arun Harinath
Vikram Solanki
Zander de Bruyn
Gary Wilson
Steven Davies
Jason Roy
Stuart Meaker
Tim Linley
Jade Dernbach
Jon Lewis
Chris Tremlett
which two seamers will miss out?

Tremlett and Dernbach have surely had enough 'rest' now haven't they?! Although the Viscount did ok in the Durham debacle, I fear it'll be him who, as always, loses out! I can't even believe that Lewis will be in with any chance - why isn't Clive in the squad?!

Thanks for the thread, JimBob.

My guess would be for the Viscount and Tremlett to miss out.

The left field choice (and, yes, I'm far too old to use that term!!) would be to play 4 frontline seamers as well as Batty to bolster the attack. Tthat could see Tremlett replace Roy. Unlikely but I do think all options will be considered following such a poor start to the CC season. I also get the impression that we're keen to play Tremlett but don't feel we can rely on him to do the hard yards as someone like Linley does; hence the possibility of an extra main bowler. The obvious argument against this is that weakens the batting which is hardly strong anyway. Much as I don't like Lewis as a bowler, his inclusion should benefit the tail.

Have to hope that Meaker has put back the missing screw in his radar.

At the moment difficult to see which combo of seamers might do better.

Got that totally wrong! Meaker and Lewis miss out.

Surrey win toss and put Notts in ....

Meaker playing and not Tremlett I think. An initial error from the team at Trent Bridge.

Read injured so James Taylor captains

early wkt for jade

Shelsey - yes, Meaker playing in place of Tremlett. I blame Church!

No wicket as.yet for Linley but he seems on the spot: 6-5-2-0.

No bad thing for Surrey that Read isn't playing. He's one of those (many) players who always seems to do well against us!

14 off the over from Brain

thegooch7 wrote:14 off the over from Brain

Lunch 59-2.

Meaker getting a wicket shortly before the break probably just about makes the morning session ours. Still difficult to see beyond a draw with so much rain about and forecast.

another wkt for meaks

170-6. Doing well. Mind you, we still have to dismiss the tail and then bat ourselves ....

273-9 at stumps.

Hard to make much of a judgment until we bat but would guess both sides are reasonably content now.

As usual we let their tail get too many - stand of 60 plus for the 8th wicket. However, at least we generally kept it tight and already have full bowling points.

Great effort from the Viscount. 28 overs at under 2 runs each with 3 wickets. 3 spells of 10, 10 and 8 overs. Seems no way that Tremlett could be asked to do that which makes his future look less than rosey as we persist with only 4 frontline bowlers.

Pleased we bowled with more discipline today. Great work by the Viscount and good to see Meaker getting back his bearings. Looks as though team selection was probably right.

The late partnership has largely ruled out the prospect of our winning quickly in a low scoring game. But if we can bat well who knows....

Weather unsettled but doesnt look too bad tomorrow.

great start 9 for 2

That was an absolute certainty! Still need 111 to avoid the follow on!

Another defeat snatched from the jaws of victory!

kingdaveeagle wrote:Another defeat snatched from the jaws of victory!

I wouldn't worry, Notts have a habit of doing the same

Solanki gone now

37-3 off 20 - not exactly quick!

the brain departs 47 for 4

interesting goes for 0
47 for 5 at lunch

I wouldn't worry.

You'll have a 200 run 10 wicket partnership.

GSC wrote:I wouldn't worry.

You'll have a 200 run 10 wicket partnership.

77 more to avoid the follow on

Quickly looking in at the score. Things don't appear to be as good as they could be!

Even Adams might have a bit of trouble explaining this one away ....

We could throw this in 2 days............and we won the toss!

i think the chances of getting any batting points is looking slim

50 up

wilson moves into double figures

baron goes for 24 only facing 107 balls he was playing himself in

Head have got to roll. For Surrey to be doing this badly is embarrassing. I'll say it again, but whose idea was it to sign players like Keedy and Solanki? We need hungry players in their mid-20s.

scott newman having a pop at surrey on he's twitter acount.
moaning that the batting is weak and tremlett should be playing

extras move into double figures

batty joins the double figures club

Wilson and Norah edging us toward saving the follow on at 100-6, but you know the saying with Surrey, one wicket brings four!

100 up

thegooch7 wrote:Wilson and Norah edging us toward saving the follow on at 100-6, but you know the saying with Surrey, one wicket brings four!

50 partnership between 'The Dependables'!!

thegooch7 wrote:50 partnership between 'The Dependables'!!

wilson goes for 49

batty goes looking to go big

looking like that innings from Mullaney will cost us the game

207 all out

Off for bad light - 2 days of that'll save us!

Incredibly disapponting. The hardwork put in yesterday by the frontline seamers deserved far better from the others today.

We particularly needed Solanki and de Bruyn to show their experience and take centre stage rather than merge into the collapsing scenery.

Situation in this match close very difficult - a poor or even average pre lunch session tomorrow then we are in desperate straits.

We are looking increasingly vulnerable. Meanwhile Chris Jordan scores 92.

Morning chaps,

Not going well is it? They probably got at least 50 too many from the position we had them in which would gave made our scores almost level but only thanks to Wilson and Batty (both of whom should be ashamed of themselves for getting out to Samit Patel!)

Adams needs to take a look at himself though, opening with Jason Roy is a mistake anyway but doing it at Trent Bridge is just plain stupid. As is putting arguably your most consistent batsman at number 7 and continuing with someone who has failed for the best part of a year at number 5.

Unless we can get them out with their lead under 200 this will be another loss imo although weather could well lead to another draw.