surrey vs sussex county championship

Team Director Chris Adams has named a thirteen man squad for the LV=County Championship match against Sussex at Arundel starting on Wednesday.
Zafar Ansari is included in a Championship squad for the first time this season having finished his studies at Cambridge University. Stuart Meaker is unavailable for selection due to a knee injury which will keep him out of action for two weeks.
there is also no place in the squad for roy.
The Surrey squad to play Sussex at Arundel on Wednesday June 12th, Thursday June 13th, Friday June 14th and Saturday June 15th:
Vikram Solanki (capt)
Rory Burns
Arun Harinath
Ricky Ponting
Zander de Bruyn
Steven Davies
Gary Wilson
Zafar Ansari
Jon Lewis
Tim Linley
Chris Tremlett
Jade Dernbach
Gary Keedy

Get ready for a big defeat!

Chris Jordan will get 5 wickets and Rory Hamilton Brown will hit 100.

not you again right take this

What kept you, JimBob?

Thanks for the thread. I suspect Lewis will edge Linley out as he did on day one at Guildford. The other to miss out will probably be one of Keedy, Ansari and de Bruyn. Tricky as I'm not sure that Adams will trust Ansari as the only slow bowler - hmmm.

Anyone up for a sweepstake on the total number of no balls bowled in the match by Jordan and Lewis?

work guildford

Anyone heading down? Should be a great game. I might head down on Friday, live an hour away from Arundel but never been to there ground before, i understand it is rated quite highly, in the sense of its attractiveness. Surrey have a few stars on show and Prior and Wright will be playing for Sussex, so one thing is for sure, it will be a great match!

Good luck lads!

we won't need it nick

NickisBHAFC wrote:Anyone heading down? Should be a great game. I might head down on Friday, live an hour away from Arundel but never been to there ground before, i understand it is rated quite highly, in the sense of its attractiveness. Surrey have a few stars on show and Prior and Wright will be playing for Sussex, so one thing is for sure, it will be a great match!

Good luck lads!

If the game goes significantly into a 4th day, I plan to try and sell the arractiveness of the ground to Mrs Bat for a Saturday outing. However, I fear I'll be bowling on a flat track!

Start delayed due to rain!

No play before lunch............we might get a draw out of this now!

No Play Wednesday! Our old fogeys have only got 9 sessions to survive for a draw!!

This weather sums up Surrey's season.

The weather's not that bad!

From a Middlesex perspective I must say I won't be too disappointed if this one is drawn 

Surrey won the toss and will bowl 11.15 start

Keedy and department store miss out

Conditions should suit Linley. Lets hope so anyway!

Perfect swing/seam bowling conditions....................100-1 at lunch I reckon!

Sussex 62-2  at Lunch

Chris Nash has be doing it frequently this season, getting going into the 30's and losing a wicket softly. 

Yardy and Joyce batting.

201 for 4 at tea 6 more quick wickets needed

jimbobgooner wrote:201 for 4 at tea 6 more quick wickets needed

That's right, JimBob!

If Sussex are on around 300-5 at stumps today, they'll be looking to get 400 plus by around lunchtime tomorrow and then twice bowl us out cheaply in the remaining five sessions.

Given that a whole day has been lost already, we shouldn't lose from here. However, its 2 or 3 wins we need rather than 4 or 5 draws!

Wicket for Zafar! I think his first CC wicket in almost two years (Robert Key?).

That one wicket makes much better scoreboard reading for Surrey. 205-5.

206 for 6

not luke wright again

wright gone

3rd wkt for the viscount 280 for 8

wkt for tremlett 283 for 9
monty to the wkt

295 all out viscount gets his forth wkt
now over to the batsmen for 400 plus then bowl sussex out cheaply

295 all out. Hmmmm not ideal at all. I can only see a draw tbh, unless we bowl superbly well and get Surrey all out for something stupid.

Good to see Mike Yardy hit 69 and Sir Chris Jordan hitting 41. So some positives there. Its great to see Yardy improve with the bat this season.

Time for Jordan and Magoffin to work there magic!!!

4 overs left in the day

For once, a decent day. Good team performance. Particularly fine fightback in the last session. Credit as well to Burns and Harinath batting out the last few minutes.

Pleased for Viscount bagging a fourfer. Always gives his best and hasn't had much luck for a while.

Two cracking catches by Ponting according to Churchy.

Still very difficult to see the game going anywhere with only 2 days left but at least we're not hanging on by our fingertips tonight.

A considerable relief to find we've had a reasonable day.  Pleased to see Ansari given a chance.

Burns could have been run out first ball.  Then Harinath dropped by Joyce. Now Burns dropped by Yardy

50's for solanki and the brain

100 partnership

Being pressurised into taking your sickdays, Corporal?

Anyway, 230 odd - 3 at tea. We're certainly on top but dsperately short of time. Maybe go gung ho for 20 overs in today's final session and then declare to give them 10 tonight ....

100 for solanki

Monty Strikes 

300 up

Guildford - am indeed off sick today.  You are right about Surrey's epic performance against Essex - that we did come back strongly for a draw.  And without looking up the details I would be pretty sure that Roger Knight got a decent score in the second innings.

Corporal - trust you'll be on the mend soon.

Don't understand Surrey's tactics now - we seem to have shut up shop ....

Thanks - Guildford.

I agree - looks like strange tactics - maybe we are digging in to try and get a fifth  batting point in the morning?

the brain needs 2 off the final over for a hundred

and hits a single
4 balls left

Appropriate that Brain is on 99* as Churchy has spent much of the last hour talking about ice cream vans.... 

son of boris stops him from getting there tonight

the 3 targets for tomorrow
1.the brain to get a hundred
2.get the 38 runs off the 10 overs to get the full batting points
3. bowl sussex out cheaply