surrey vs nottinghamshire county championship

Surrey have named a thirteen man squad for the LV=County Championship match against Nottinghamshire at the Kia Oval starting on Monday.
Jade Dernbach returns to the squad having missed Surrey’s last Championship game against Yorkshire due to his involvement in England’s recent NatWest T20 games.
The Pemberton Greenish Academy batsman Dominic Sibley is named in a Championship squad for the first time but Gary Wilson is unavailable for selection due to his involvement in Ireland’s two One Day Internationals against Holland.
this is ricky pointing's final first class match  
stuart meaker will not be back until august at the earliest.
The Surrey squad to play Nottinghamshire in the LV=County Championship match at the Kia Oval on Monday 8th July, Tuesday 9th July, Wednesday 10th July and Thursday 11th July:
Gareth Batty (capt)
Zafar Ansari
Rory Burns
Steven Davies
Jade Dernbach
Zander de Bruyn
Arun Harinath
Gary Keedy
Tim Linley
Ricky Ponting
Dominic Sibley
Vikram Solanki
Chris Tremlett

Thanks, JimBob.
Particularly interested in your comment about Meaker. I know he hasn't been at his very best this season but that's still a real blow as regards protecting our Division One status. Where did you get the news from?

Suspect Sibley is called up to get a 'feel' of being around the first team rather than to play but who knows? As a pure batsman, he's more of a logical replacement for Wilson than Ansari. Would be quite something for him to make his first class debut in Ponting's final match. I spoke briefly to Sibley during the seconds' game at Guildford last week. Pleasant and intelligent lad. I'm sure he'll have been taken by surprise by the call up - he said he had scored 3 fifties this season but now needed to convert another into a big score.

I would guess that Keedy's sevenfer at Headingley and the continuing hope that Tremlett will rediscover his form will lead to Linley missing out along with Sibley (probably) or Ansari.

guildfordbat wrote:Thanks, JimBob.
Particularly interested in your comment about Meaker. I know he hasn't been at his very best this season but that's still a real blow as regards protecting our Division One status. Where did you get the news from?

hi guildford some one who i follow on twitter spoke to him friday night and he said early august he also said about sibley being involved so i doubt he's making it up

Wonder whether we are preparing a turning wicket.  Potentially we are looking at Batty, Keedy and Ansari all playing. Well done to Sibley for getting into the squad - tho as is the way of these things he's had several low scores recently for the 2nd XI.

jimbobgooner wrote:

guildfordbat wrote:Thanks, JimBob.
Particularly interested in your comment about Meaker. I know he hasn't been at his very best this season but that's still a real blow as regards protecting our Division One status. Where did you get the news from?

hi guildford some one who i follow on twitter spoke to him friday night and he said early august he also said about sibley being involved so i doubt he's making it up

Thanks, JimBob. Wasn't doubting you, just hadn't heard it. Poor that the Club website doesn't give more details of injuries.

No worries guildford totally agree about the web site
right surrey win the toss and will bat

Sibley and viscount miss out

Darned good toss to win.

350-2 at close today please.

Well there's your first gone...

That's the two wkts down 308 to go

Ponting's last first class game, then. Boy he'll be missed, not only a true great in terms of pure ability and output, but one of the games fiercest competitors. Brilliant to watch and a brilliant adversary for England. I hope he goes out in style.

Fists of Fury wrote:Ponting's last first class game, then. Boy he'll be missed, not only a true great in terms of pure ability and output, but one of the games fiercest competitors. Brilliant to watch and a brilliant adversary for England. I hope he goes out in style.

Fists - agreed. I think most of the Surrey boys here would regard Ponting featuring in an unbroken third wicket stand today of over 300 as suitably stylish.

 

Not to be as Burns becomes the third wicket of the morning, maddeningly a careless waft down the legside in the last over before lunch.

''I think both sides will be pleased with their morning's work'' - John Shaw, Radio Notts, sharing commentarry duties with Churchy. Absolute bo**ocks! Where do they get some of these guys from? We won the toss and elected to bat in ideal conditions, yet have lost 3 wickets in the first session with under a hundred on the board. Clearly Notts' morning and once again we are playing catch up cricket ....

guildfordbat wrote:Not to be as Burns becomes the third wicket of the morning, maddeningly a careless waft down the legside in the last over before lunch.

i'm losing count of the amount of times our players are getting out just before lunch or tea

138 for 5

Planning to come along Wednesday for my first game this season - if there's any game left by then!!!

another player gets out just before tea

playing 3 spinners proved to be pointless

now a  out

188 for 9

Anyone want to buy a train ticket for Wednesday? Our tail is doing its normal great job!

198 all out    
not even a batting point

Last 4 out for 0 - sack the manager (oh, we already have)

                                                                                                                                                                       

Today's performance fully deserving an outcome of relegation. Simply not good enough - by some distance.

guildfordbat wrote:Darned good toss to win.

350-2 at close today please.

I admire your optimism GB! 

Sounds like a shocker...clutching at straws (is there an emoticon for straw clutching?) If there was, I'd be using a lot as far as Surrey are concerned!).... Somerset haven't done too well against Sussex today... as bad as Surrey have been in the championship this year.. its remarkable that they are not by now well and truly buried or completely adrift at the bottom..

Note, I am fully expecting them to be relegated... and if the end result of that is a change in policy and an end to buying in players at the end of their playing careers.... and an opportunity to develop some younger talent (even if it means staying in Div 2 for a while).. that as far as I am concerned... would be a positive outcome... 

jimbobgooner wrote:playing 3 spinners proved to be pointless

The only time one of those three 'spins' anything is when Batty is in possession of a coin at 10.30 prior to the match!

Notts move serenely past our total with 7 wickets in hand.............Oh we have got a bonus point though!............well bowled the duck quartet!

Hi Goochie - at the ground, glorious day with literally not a cloud in the sky. Bowling hasn't been bad but nowhere near enough to defend in ideal batting conditions. Mullaney batted very well, perfectly selecting when to defend and when to attack.

Surrey highlight so far has been wee Jimmy's stumping by Davies off Keedy - should be worth a look on Surrey tv.

Meanwhile, 3 overs before tea and Notts 233-4, a lead of 35. Patel looking solid in every sense.

Can't understand why Ansari's only bowled 7 overs. There definitely seems to be a hierarchy at the club again.

fatty patel on the verge of a hundred just about sums us up

Today is probably slightly above a par score for a 'typical' Oval pitch. Slightly above because of Surrey's atrocious bowling 'attack'! I reckon we could be batting again by lunch, and will have to bat for at least 4 sessions to escape with another draw. 5 points is the maximum we can gain from this match, but more realistically, it's going to be 2.
The weird thing is, even with a heavy defeat, safety is still entirely in our own hands. I think though, we deserve/need to be relegated so we can get rid of the old deadwood - the 38yo brigade will be 39 next season!

All very depressing. Seems very likely Somerset will only get four points and Derby three in their matches. If by some miracle we really dig in for the second innings we could yet improve our position against them slightly.

Corporalhumblebucket wrote:All very depressing.  Seems very likely Somerset will only get four points and Derby three in their matches.  If by some miracle we really dig in for the second innings we could yet improve our position against them slightly.

True. However, draws probably won't be enough to save us from the drop if there is a winner when Somerset play Derbys second time round.

Impressed by Notts today. A controlled and professional performance. Both Mullaney and Patel mixed attack and defence very well. Nice cameo also from Read who put his foot on the gas to take Notts towards their fourth batting point and unselfishly lost his wicket in the process.

I'm certainly no great fan of Keedy's but he worked hard and found some turn, deserving his couple of wickets. (JDizzle - if you're reading, he and Davies did Jimmy Taylor like a kipper.) Tremlett did well when pitching the ball up but at times was too legside.

Fielding was a mixed bag. Determination throughout from Batty and Ponting with effective athleticism from Burns and Ansari. Tremlett however was too often at sea whilst in an apparent fit of pique the Brain conceded 4 overthrows off his own bowling when he needlessly tried to throw down the stumps and missed by a country mile!

Suspect we're going to have to bat out almost all of the last five sessions to get a draw. Can't see that happening. Yet again we suffer badly (and deservedly) as a consequence of having to play catch up cricket.

Century for Patel as he drives past Tremlett at mid off who went down like a shot giraffe in slow motion. Shahzad limpet like and hasn't scored this morning.

and another 50 partnership! A ton for Patel as well. Looks like Notts are setting themselves to bat as long as, to take full advantage of the predicted deterioration in the pitch...............I reckon they've got enough already for an inns win!

Jade gets fatty patel with the slower ball

guildfordbat wrote:

I'm certainly no great fan of Keedy's but he worked hard and found some turn, deserving his couple of wickets. (JDizzle - if you're reading, he and Davies did Jimmy Taylor like a kipper.) Tremlett did well when pitching the ball up but at times was too legside.

 

He can't sensational ALL the time.  

28 for 0 at lunch 5 sessions to survive

Start of the second session and we trail by a huge 180. Bizarrely, if you delete the first day (yes, I know you can't!) including the 50 runs that Notts scored without loss then, I would say we were narrowly on top.

Dernbach bowled particularly well this morning, with some really quick bouncers and the odd slow looping yorker. Gurney didn't fancy facing him at all and refused an easy single for number ten Adams to ensure he (Gurney) stayed off strike. Adams was not impressed.

67-0

Burns from the off and now Harinath showing attacking intent but Patel still bowling well. Expect something ....

guildfordbat wrote:67-0

Burns from the off and now Harinath showing attacking intent but Patel still bowling well. Expect something ....

As I feared, a wicket although taken by Adams with a peach of a delivery that cleaned up Burns' stumps. Patel still bowling well and getting some bounce, unlucky not to have Harinath caught at square leg in the last over as the ball looped over Wessels. Batting suddenly looks a lot more difficult as the runs for Harinath and new man Solanki have rather dried up ....

Trying to save the match and Solanki gets run out!?? Words fail me!

thegooch7 wrote:Trying to save the match and Solanki gets run out!?? Words fail me!

   

4 more sessions to survive 8wkts left

Not just any old run out either. Can't claim it wa "probably the worst in the world" but it certainly was mighty stupid!

50 for the baron

And 24,000 fc runs for Ponting. Sadly not all in this match.

guildfordbat wrote:And 24,000 fc runs for Ponting. Sadly not all in this match.