SURREY VS NORTHAMPTONSHIRE ROYAL LONDON CUP QUARTER FINAL

SURREY HAVE NAMED A FIFTEEN MAN SQUAD FOR THEIR ROYAL LONDON ONE DAY CUP QUARTER FINAL AGAINST THE NORTHAMPTONSHIRE STEELBACKS AT WANTAGE ROAD ON THURSDAY.
Kumar Sangakkara and Ravi Rampaul are both named in the squad after returning from the Caribbean Premier League and James Burke is also included.
There is no place in the squad for Gary Wilson on the plus side Ben Foakes returns from injury
The Surrey squad to play the Northamptonshire Steelbacks in the Royal London One Day Cup Quarter Final at Wantage Road on Thursday 18th August:
Gareth Batty (capt)
Zafar Ansari
James Burke
Rory Burns
Sam Curran
Tom Curran
Steven Davies
Jade Dernbach
Ben Foakes
Mark Footitt
Stuart Meaker
Ravi Rampaul
Jason Roy
Kumar Sangakkara
Dominic Sibley
Footitt and Burke won't play so it's Meaker,Ravioli and Sibley fighting it out for the last spot.
Maybe ravioli edges it not too sure on this one.
Over to you chaps

Agree with your calls jimbob, it's a tough decision between Sibley, Meaker and Rampaul for the final spot—I'd pick Meaker to play but can see them going with any of the three depending on the pitch.

Shame the match isn't televised, it seems odd to schedule the quarter finals over two days rather than the four used for the T20s.

James100 wrote:
Shame the match isn't televised, it seems odd to schedule the quarter finals over two days rather than the four used for the T20s.

Technically there were 4 days free between The scheduled last day of the 4th Test and T20 Finals day, however there was an agreement with the counties that there would be no games the day before finals day while Sky need tme to get their cameras set up etc. To show 4 matches on successive days they would need a clear day either side apparently.


Northampton are heavily reliant on runs from Rossington and Duckett, and generally fare best when they can get a total on the board and squeeze the opposition in the field. The wicket has seemed to be a bit two paced, but big scores can be achieved so long as batters give themself the time to get their eye in.

zafar unavailable with a back injury

northants win toss and bat

Burke starts

Interesting. Burke plays ahead of Sibley with Sam at no. 6

Looks light on batting

Roy
Davies
Sanga
Burns
Foakes (wk)
S Curran
Burke
T Curran
Batty
Meaker
Dernbach

Burke ahead of Sibley? Proper #headsgone selection that folks - Sibley a better bat and probably bowler too

Footitt,Rampaul and sibley miss out

agree chaps burke shouldn't be playing and tail is too long

First wicket down - Levi c Burke b Dernbach

Burke's in for his catching, obviously !

SimonofSurrey wrote: First wicket down - Levi c Burke b Dernbach

Burke's in for his catching, obviously !

...and again: Duckett dismissal exactly the same combination

Cobb taking a liking to Burke's bowling

James100 wrote:Cobb taking a liking to Burke's bowling

what a surprise

we will need over 300 to win this

jimbobgooner wrote:we will need over 300 to win this

Good job we have a long batting lineup toda...oh

Good Golly I'm Olly wrote:

jimbobgooner wrote:we will need over 300 to win this

Good job we have a long batting lineup toda...oh

I don't see it that way. We have a solid top 5 - in order, presumably Le Roi, Interesting, Sanga, First Degree and That's All - followed by four decent potentially dangerous one day middle order players - 2 x Currans, Burke and Batty - then our new found all rounder Meaker at 10. If we have to go beyond that, chances are the game has already gone from us. If it's a decent track, I'd be disappointed if that line up failed to make a decent fist of trying to chase down anything up to around 300.

It's not like we had Norah at seven followed by a family of four rabbits (Meaker, Rampaul, Dernbach, Footitt)

214 for 7 after 40 overs

SimonofSurrey wrote:

Good Golly I'm Olly wrote:

jimbobgooner wrote:we will need over 300 to win this

Good job we have a long batting lineup toda...oh

I don't see it that way. We have a solid top 5 - in order, presumably Le Roi, Interesting, Sanga, First Degree and That's All - followed by four decent potentially dangerous one day middle order players - 2 x Currans, Burke and Batty - then our new found all rounder Meaker at 10. If we have to go beyond that, chances are the game has already gone from us. If it's a decent track, I'd be disappointed if that line up failed to make a decent fist of trying to chase down anything up to around 300.

It's not like we had Norah at seven followed by a family of four rabbits (Meaker, Rampaul, Dernbach, Footitt)  

Everyone including Sam is batting one spot too high from 6-10 imo

8 down

9 down

KLEINVEDLT

TOM CURRAN

Last wicket have put on over 40 now - not good enough I'm afraid Surrey - thrown away the match

thank you jade

That last wicket 49 has probably taken the match away from us now

Good start

thanks for turning up davies

in control then roy gives his wkt away

And now Third Degree, from in control to struggling in a couple of overs

3 down

3 down and our last two proper batsmen at the crease - poor selection cost us today

shame wakely got injured

Evening all.  Match evenly poised - Surrey 162 - 3 well placed if we keep wickets in hand. 

Cracking over that from Wakely - really got the treatment from Sanga.  Currently pushing around singles, which is fine as long as we don't allow pressure to build.

Foakes falls for 16. 165 - 4.

Good partnership, but we can't rely solely on Sanga (and earlier Roy) for the batting.

I think we'll rely exclusively on Sanga here, well on top of the rate, he just needs to stay in for us to win

Evening Goochie! Required run rate starting to rise again. Still only 5 an over, but we don't want to get bogged down unnecessarily. 95 to win.

Evening corporal.....going well as we inch our way toward 277.........and a West Ham goal right on half time!

205 - 4 after 35 overs. 72 needed off 14 overs. Sam Curran doing most of the scoring at the moment while Sanga contemplates a possible century.

Babyface perishes.....come on Sanga, all down to you

Aagh Curran out (for a very useful 26). Now getting into some of the less reliable batman.  Really need Sanga to assert himself to prevent panic among the troops.

Pleased indeed to see Hammers taking the lead!

Let's hope that Tom Curran performs well with the bat after his very expensive bowling earlier on.

100 for kumar

run rate up to six too much mucking about in the middle overs again like the final last year

Jimbob - agree, it did look like Sanga had nodded off in the middle overs.  At least Sam Curran kept things moving - just have to hope that Tom Curran can push the score along now that (hopefully) he has got his eye in.

Come on Sanga - we could do with a couple of boundaries.

Tbf extras playing a useful role.  That's 27 so far (versus Surrey's 15)

Getting too close for comfort! Too many dot balls

gone past the score when they was 9 down

more than a run a ball needed now funny thing to say but this is painful from kumar

Required run rate beginning to climb more sharply, now over 6 an over.  Only 10 off last three overs.