SURREY VS NOTTINGHAMSHIRE SPECSAVERS COUNTY CHAMPIONSHIP

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SURREY HAVE NAMED A FOURTEEN MAN SQUAD FOR THE SPECSAVERS COUNTY CHAMPIONSHIP GAME AGAINST NOTTINGHAMSHIRE STARTING ON SUNDAY AT THE KIA OVAL.
Jason Roy is unavailable for selection having joined up with the England squad for the upcoming One Day and T20 Series against Sri Lanka. Sam Curran is unavailable for selection due to his school commitments and Matthew Pillans is unavailable due to illness.
Jade Dernbach,Matthew Dunn,and Mark Footitt keep Pillans company on the table.
On the plus side Dominic Sibley returns from injury and Gary Wilson returns from international duty.
The Surrey squad to play Nottinghamshire in the Specsavers County Championship at the Kia Oval on Sunday 19th June, Monday 20th June, Tuesday 21st June and Wednesday 22nd June:
Gareth Batty (capt)
Zafar Ansari
James Burke
Rory Burns
Tom Curran
Steven Davies
Ben Foakes
Arun Harinath
Aneesh Kapil
Stuart Meaker
Ravi Rampaul
Kumar Sangakkara
Dominic Sibley
Gary Wilson
Do we go with 3 quicks or 4 is the dilemma? if 3 kapil Burke and wilson to miss out if 4 Kapil,Sibley and wilson, for me tough to call this one
over to you chaps

323 all out. Assuming the weather and the light stay ok, I think that means we'll get 24 overs at Notts tonight. Minimum of 2 wickets wanted ....

323 all out a very good recovery from where we were - lower order doing a sterling job yet again. Means we have a shot if we bowl well

50/1 off 16 overs, another wicket for Rampaul. Cricinfo show 11 overs left although I suspect it's only 8 (don't think they made an adjustment for the change of innings). Whatever, we need 1 more tonight ....

And with that, Olly's boy Zaf gets Mullaney in the 17th. 50/2 now, good position for us ....

Church tweeted out the dismissal of Mullaney - a lot of turn for Zaf, encouraging signs for us

Good Golly I'm Olly wrote:Church tweeted out the dismissal of Mullaney - a lot of turn for Zaf, encouraging signs for us

Irritating then that Batty didn't bowl himself tonight.

82/2 at stumps. Looks in the balance.

I would guess a lot of credit today goes to the ground staff and the drainage system - getting a session in towards the end has moved things on usefully for both sides and maintained the possibility of a positive result.

Ravioli gets Taylor LBW - 95-3

Wkt for TC

Patel out

Batty strikes 6 down

Follow on beckons!

Morning folks. Had hoped to get along today but sadly not possible. Anyway, a good start.

Goochie - still waiting for your 'Get Carter' comment!

Batty again 7 down

guildfordbat wrote:Morning folks. Had hoped to get along today but sadly not possible. Anyway, a good start.

Goochie - still waiting for your 'Get Carter' comment!

Carter at the wicket now - Hopefully he's a big man, but he's out of shape!

Batty gets Carter

Got Carter!

Need the (Surrey) Lions to get Christian now

Meaker strikes 9 down

Meaker bowls Ball

An exceptional morning session for Surrey

thegooch7 wrote:Need the (Surrey) Lions to get Christian now

Excellent effort there and before, Goochie.

Cracking morning for Surrey - King Dave won't know what to say! Assume we've got the extra half-hour to get the 10th before lunch - be surprised if Gurney can see off Meaks. Heard on a couple of grapevines that he was bowling very fast last night.

Batty gets the last wkt Nottinghamshire 182 all out what a session

Gurney lasted even less longer than I expected and actually falls to Batty. Based purely on a quick glance at cricinfo, seems like an excellent team bowling performance.

Important to bat sensibly in the middle session today - no point being 40/3 off 7 overs. Any fireworks can be saved for after tea. Ideally, get 360 ahead and then declare to give them 5 or 6 overs tonight. Easy from here!

Just checked the score—very pleasantly surprised! Shame to not get the follow on, but hopefully we can rack up a load of runs today and then have all of tomorrow (and a possible half hour tonight) to bowl them out. The bowling attack looks a lot better with players back from injury and without having to play Pillans as an opening seamer.

Well played Surrey this morning - great session.   We have of course been here before (against Somerset) where a horrendously anaemic batting performance in second innings let the opposition right back in the game. Hope to see some sensible, but positive batting from more of our top order this time....

20/0 off 10. Will obviously need to step it up in due course but no problem with that now.

At risk of wanting my cake and eating it, it'll be good if we can hit young Carter about soon after he comes on although without incurring too many risks. Good for us to dent his confidence early on and hopefully remove the threat of spin at both ends. Notts could then struggle trying to juggle 3 seamers to presumably partner Patel.

29 - 0 off 15 overs. Sedate start, but much better that than a headless collapse!  Lead 170.

50 partnership

Lead is at 235 at tea

Would like to see us get to a lead of say 380-400 and declare with three/four overs left in the day

Solid afternoon's play.  Minimum 31 overs left, so will be pushing it considerably to declare before close of play.

Corporalhumblebucket wrote:Solid afternoon's play.  Minimum 31 overs left, so will be pushing it considerably to declare before close of play.

Unfortunately our place in the table dictates that we need to push it and take some risks to pickup a win. Home draws not really gonna be enough to keep us afloat

140 - 1 with 21 overs left.  Lead 281. Surrey accelerating nicely at the moment.

270 ahead. 9 wickets remaining. 22 overs left today (less 2 if we declare before stumps).

All things possible. I would look to try and biff another 100 off 16, then declare and give 'em 4 tonight. However, easier to type ''biff'' than actually do it after an understandable measured start to our second dig. I wouldn't be surprised to see us bat to close today.

The players ignoring you olly

The Baron plays out a maiden.

When we have Notts 8 down tomorrow at the close of play...I'll say I told you so...

The Baron has scored 7 off the last 21 balls.  Could do with giving more of the strike to Sanga - except that Sanga is now out for 49.

But in comes Harold Wilson - who I'm sure will save the day for Olly...

Wilson to the crease olly will be delighted

Wilson 0 runs off 10 balls so far. 

Apart from 4 leg byes only a single scored off last three overs.  Come on guys!

Wilson off the mark with a single from his 13th ball.

Just not good match awareness - doesn't have to be big boundaries, just ticking over the strike, four singles an over with the odd boundary is what we need

Wilson out for 2 off 18 balls

He's just not good enough I'm afraid

Wilson goes for a well made 2

Davies isn't messing around

Davies onto the case. That's more like it. Lead 314 with 10 overs to go.

Harinath goes for 83

Great knock by the Baron again - unlucky to fall short of three figures

Lead 343 with 6 overs to go.

Lead goes past 350