SURREY VS MIDDLESEX NATWEST T20 BLAST

SURREY HAVE NAMED A FIFTEEN MAN SQUAD    FOR THE NATWEST T20 BLAST GAME AGAINST MIDDLESEX AT THE KIA OVAL THIS EVENING.
Dominic Sibley is unavailable for selection after an MRI scan confirmed he sustained a lower back muscle strain in the NatWest T20 Blast game against Somerset last week. Gary Wilson is unavailable due to his selection in the Ireland squad for the current One Day International Series against Sri Lanka.
The treatment table hasn't changed
Aneesh Kapil is named in the squad for the first time this season
The whole of Surrey v Middlesex will be broadcast on Sky Sports 2 with coverage starting at 6pm.
The Surrey squad to play Middlesex in the NatWest T20 Blast at the Kia Oval on Friday 17th June:
Gareth Batty (capt)
Zafar Ansari
Dwayne Bravo
James Burke
Rory Burns
Sam Curran
Tom Curran
Steven Davies
Ben Foakes
Aneesh Kapil
Stuart Meaker
Mathew Pillans
Ravi Rampaul
Jason Roy
Kumar Sangakkara
Only decision to make is if Davies plays if so Burke,Kapil,Meaker and Pillans to miss out if not Kapil to start
over to you chaps  

Good man, JimBob! Thanks also for flagging that Sky are covering the game.

I'm confident Davies will play and so agree with you about Kapil, Burke, Meaker and Pillans missing out.

Should be a great occasion - let's hope McCullum doesn't get going!!

Middlesex win toss and bowl

Surrey team as expected

Is it still 20 overs please?

As things stand yes Guildford

Cheers for before, Olly.

My boy Roy on fire in the 3rd!

Just about to type about how well Rayner does against Surrey and he gets Davies with his 3rd ball!

Both openers back in the hutch now. 58/2 off 6.3.

Burns stupidly run out without facing.

60/3 off 7. A great start from Roy but Middlesex have come back strongly.

Sanga gone at the start of the 12th. Beaten in the flight by that man Rayner and stumped.

94/4 now off 12. Middlesex in the ascendancy.

Now 102-6 We bat deep but not looking good.

Rayner gets Bravo in his 4th over and finishes with 3/23. Probably match winning figures.

Poor batting by Surrey. Very sloppy dismissals. Davies certainly not alone in giving his wicket away but doing absolutely nothing to make me change my views. He looked uncomfortable and ill at ease, as much in himself as in his batting. I wouldn't be at all surprised if he moved on at the end of the season.

117/6 off 16 now. Middlesex's game to lose from here.

guildfordbat wrote:Poor batting by Surrey. Very sloppy dismissals. Davies certainly not alone in giving his wicket away but doing absolutely nothing to make me change my views. He looked uncomfortable and ill at ease, as much in himself as in his batting. I wouldn't be at all surprised if he moved on at the end of the season.

Got to agree. He's not playing well so Surrey won't fight to keep him, and he hasn't hidden the fact that he wants to be keeping regularly (could be affecting his batting?). I'd expect him to be keeping for a 2nd division side unless things change drastically in the back half of the Summer.

Nightmare 17th over from McClenaghan. Cost 20 runs with 10 balls being bowled. Puts us back in with a chance.

19 runs - I think - off the penultimate over from Malan. Still think we're short but not by much.

Got to have penalty runs added

Brilliant final 4 overs from a Surrey perspective with 56 runs scored. That said, we fell away badly after Roy's dismissal. At our best, we were looking for 30 more. At our worst, Middlesex were looking to restrict us to 30 less.

I would rather be in Middlesex's position at this stage but we're far more in it now than I feared after 16 overs ....

Cheated by the umpires here

jimbobgooner wrote:Got to have penalty runs added

But we didn't get them?

Many summers ago I sometimes used to bat with an old guy (he would have been about 10 years younger than I am now!!) whose idea of time wasting was to deliberately smash the ball into the rhododendron bushes!

Lovely slower ball from Rampaul to get McCullum.

Sam gets Malan now, good low boundary catch by Bravo. Thought he had Gubbins lbw earlier that over but not given.

Anyone noticed Foakes? No. He's good, isn't he?!

Middlesex 74/5 off 11. Need exactly 100 more. Going at 9 an over off the last 9 would be a fair bit easier for them if they weren't 5 down. That should make all the difference now ....

Good evening all! 50 needed off the last three overs.

I haven't got Sky but from the scorecard at least it looks like Ansari has had a good match.  Rampaul takes out Rayner.  Asking rate up to 18.8 an over....

Evening Corporal - you only appear when you're winning! Some of us have been through all the emotions tonight!

Please don't tell me that's JimBob streaking on my tv screen!

Corporalhumblebucket wrote:I haven't got Sky but from the scorecard at least it looks like Ansari has had a good match.  Rampaul takes out Rayner.  Asking rate up to 18.8 an over....

Yep, Zaf's played well. Got his runs - and they were very much needed when we had wobbled badly - in a calm and decisive fashion. Bowled well also although his ''bowled'' of Gubbins was incredibly fortunate - off pad and then chest before dropping onto the stumps.

Generally, we bowled well and the fielding, especially the catching, was top notch as at Guildford in the week.

And that's it!  Well played guys.

Brilliant stuff from Surrey tonight

guildfordbat wrote:Please don't tell me that's JimBob streaking on my tv screen!

I don't wax

jimbobgooner wrote:

guildfordbat wrote:Please don't tell me that's JimBob streaking on my tv screen!

I don't wax  

On the OCS balcony guys the view is the dogs preverviables

I tell you what when we get Finch and Morris is this side t20 side is gonna be damn tough to beat

jimbobgooner wrote:On the OCS balcony guys the view is the dogs preverviables

Serious point, JimBob. You're allowed up there ok, are you? There were complaints the other week about the OCS top being taken over by corporates.

Meanwhile, Zaf gets the Sky MotM.

guildfordbat wrote:Evening Corporal - you only appear when you're winning! Some of us have been through all the emotions tonight!

Moi! A fair weather supporter?

Batty's two wickets this evening took him up to 55 T20 career wickets for Surrey - and outright third in the all time Surrey list.  (He had been equal with Schofield and Doshi).

Meanwhile Ansari's two wickets took him up to 37, one ahead of Hollioake who (remarkably) took his 36 wickets in just 50 overs!

Just a joke, Corporal! I know you've been through enough mud and rain over the years.

That's an incredible stat about Hollioake.

More wickets tonight for Rampaul, impressed by the guy. Some very clever slow balls. A word as well for Tom Curran - he deserved better than 0/35 off his 4. He tends to get the Power Play and other mucky overs. Given the state of games when he gets the ball, he keeps it tighter than appears.

The batting though remains a concern.

guildfordbat wrote:Just a joke, Corporal! I know you've been through enough mud and rain over the years.

That's an incredible stat about Hollioake.

More wickets tonight for Rampaul, impressed by the guy. Some very clever slow balls. A word as well for Tom Curran - he deserved better than 0/35 off his 4. He tends to get the Power Play and other mucky overs. Given the state of games when he gets the ball, he keeps it tighter than appears.

The batting though remains a concern.

Batting is a concern - but we did just rack up 170+ without any of the batsmen "coming off" so to speak. One thing we do have is a really good depth of batting with the Currans in at 8/9. Usually means even if the batsmen fail, we can get upto a competitive total (like tonight maybe 10/20 below par)

Olly - that's a fair point but if I were a Middlesex supporter I would be ranting about the 17th and 19th overs from McClenaghan and Malan respectively that cost 40 runs rather than raving about the Surrey late order. Sure, Zaf and TC batted well but they won't often be fortunate enough to get a 10 ball over (including 3 wides and (from a single ball) 6 no balls). That over from McClenaghan really landed Middlesex in the soup and forced Malan to bowl an over of rushed dross when, with hindsight, he would have been better off accepting the 6 run penalty.

guildfordbat wrote:

jimbobgooner wrote:On the OCS balcony guys the view is the dogs preverviables

Serious point, JimBob. You're allowed up there ok, are you? There were complaints the other week about the OCS top being taken over by corporates.

Meanwhile, Zaf gets the Sky MotM.

After complaints Guildford the club gave back the OCS to members outside the John Major room

jimbobgooner wrote:

guildfordbat wrote:

jimbobgooner wrote:On the OCS balcony guys the view is the dogs preverviables

Serious point, JimBob. You're allowed up there ok, are you? There were complaints the other week about the OCS top being taken over by corporates.

Meanwhile, Zaf gets the Sky MotM.

After complaints Guildford the club gave back the OCS to members outside the John Major room

Good to hear, JimBob.