SURREY VS NORTHAMPTONSHIRE COUNTY CHAMPIONSHIP DIVISION 2

Surrey have named a squad of 15 to take on Northamptonshire in Northampton, starting at 10:30am on Sunday 5th September.
Hashim Amla will captain the team. The 15 selected are all of the fit & available players currently at the Club, with England duties & injuries ruling out a number of players.
Sam Curran will remain with the England Test team for their ongoing series with India.
Ben Foakes and Nicholas Kimber are both on a return to playing programme set by the Club’s medical and sports science team while Jamie Overton is recovering from a back issue. Ben Geddes is self-isolating and Nico Reifer is ill.
After consultation with the ECB medical team, England white ball contracted player Tom Curran will miss the LV= County Championship game at Northamptonshire in order to aid his recovery from a knee injury that he has been managing for a period of time.
England management have confirmed that Jason Roy will be unavailable for the rest of the LV= County Championship campaign. Roy will be given time to work on his white-ball skills and fitness ahead of the winter programme, which includes the ICC Men’s T20 World Cup in the UAE.
Full Squad:
Hashim Amla (c)
Gus Atkinson
Jordan Clark
Rikki Clarke
Matt Dunn
Laurie Evans
Will Jacks
Conor McKerr
Daniel Moriarty
Ryan Patel
Jamie Smith (wk)
Cameron Steel
James Taylor
Reece Topley
Amar Virdi
Wonder if we will ever see Jason Roy play red ball cricket for us ever again, The decision not to release Sam for this game is madness he wont play in the next test so drink duties is doing him no favours.
Have to say the Ben Foakes situation is starting to get very worrying, something is Clearly not right
Hard to call the four to miss out so maybe Atkinson, Dunn, Moriarty and Taylor
Over to you chaps

Cheers as always, JimBob.

Sorry not to reply in time. A day at the Test and a curry in Vauxhall afterwards knocked that on the head last night!

Thought you had called the team correctly but I see Atkinson gets the nod over McKerr. Thought we could have done with the pace of McKerr or Dunn - the seam attack appears a bit samey.

I share your frustration about Roy and concern over Foakes.

Meanwhile, a terrible start. Having won the toss and chosen to bat, we are 14/2 off 10. Steel contuing his poor form with the bat out for a duck. Same nil score for Amla.

61 for 4 at lunch annoying losing Patel in the last over before lunch after being 15 for 3

50 for Smith

50 for Jacks

180 for 4 at tea a excellent session
Don't want to jinx it but Smith will be playing for England within the next 12 months or I'll eat my Brown cap.

1st batting point

brain dead moment from Jacks

100 for Smith

3 wkts lost after tea so far

make that 4

Good work by Smith and Jacks...the rest, less so

2nd and final batting point

Virdi to the crease

Smith last out for a excellent 123

Jamie Smith is an excellent talent. I’m jumping on the bandwagon!

JDizzle wrote:Jamie Smith is an excellent talent. I’m jumping on the bandwagon!

He is and it has already started but you are welcome to jump on board. There should be a seat for you behind Pal Joey if he's been following today's score.

jimbobgooner wrote:2nd and final batting point

Didn't see any of today's play and so will wait until late tomorrow to properly judge it. However, it's hard to imagine 250 all out being any better than ok.

Certainly would have been in a hole without Smith.

jimbobgooner wrote:
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Have to say the Ben Foakes situation is starting to get very worrying, something is Clearly not right  
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Foakes playing for the seconds in their match away to Gloucs starting tomorrow. Seems like he's being eased back gently.

https://twitter.com/k_andrewsphotos/status/1434858033797029891?s=21

Excellently village stuff, as one of the umpires is ill so Alec Stewart is doing square leg.

JDizzle wrote:https://twitter.com/k_andrewsphotos/status/1434858033797029891?s=21

Excellently village stuff, as one of the umpires is ill so Alec Stewart is doing square leg.

Stewart loves getting involved and getting his hands dirty. When a seconds game was being played at the Guildford ground a couple of years or so ago, our Director of Cricket spent about five minutes trying to find the ball in some undergrowth.

Northants 171 all out.

Wickets shared around. A handy 81 run lead.

169/9 at lunch, Atkinson and Virdi doing excellently to bat out the extra half-hour and bring Northants' openers out to field once more before they have to dash off and pad up.

A lead of 250 now. Just a couple more runs and Northants will need to make the highest innings score of the match in the fourth dig.

All coming together, eh Olly!

guildfordbat wrote:169/9 at lunch, Atkinson and Virdi doing excellently to bat out the extra half-hour and bring Northants' openers out to field once more before they have to dash off and pad up.

A lead of 250 now. Just a couple more runs and Northants will need to make the highest innings score of the match in the fourth dig.

All coming together, eh Olly!

Highest score in the 4th dig, and Atkinson/Virdi saw it through to lunch so the openers didn't get a full break to prepare. My Guildfordbat bingo card is complete

Apart from Clarke, utter dross bowled by Surrey in the final session on a very helpful pitch, some arses need a massive kick going into the final day of this game

thegooch7 wrote:Apart from Clarke, utter dross bowled by Surrey in the final session on a very helpful pitch, some arses need a massive kick going into the final day of this game

Northants 106/2 at the close needing 214 more.

Should still be ours to win but nothing is definite. Hmmm ... feeling anxious, JimBob?

yes time to do a India

I see Stuart Meaker has retired from the game today - what a huge shame injuries took away from his prime, just as he was getting international recognition.

Just the one wicket this morning. Not good.

Northants need 124 more with 7 wickets left. Worrying ....

I would have given Jacks the ball before Steel today. Jacks still hasn't turned his arm in this game. I thought Steel was flattered by his figures in the RL50, got away with some dross early on more than once and then cashed in.

Good Golly I'm Olly wrote:I see Stuart Meaker has retired from the game today - what a huge shame injuries took away from his prime, just as he was getting international recognition.

I disn't know that but not surprised sadly. When I was at the Oval Test on Friday, Meaks was nearby with the press and radio boys. I wondered then if that might be his next move.

I echo Olly's thoughts about what might have been. A good guy off the pitch as well by all accounts.

embarrassing from our bowlers

57 needed by Northants with 6 wkts left.

Steel 12-0-63-0. Hmmm.

guildfordbat wrote:57 needed  by Northants with 6 wkts left.

Steel 12-0-63-0. Hmmm.

Baffling he's bowled that many overs, nearly the same amount as Virdi!
Have I missed something with him...he's not actually like any good?

Tea and going to the wire.

33 needed. 4 wickets left but two newish batsmen in.

Haven't looked up the stats but seen too many no balls. Can't afford that.

7 down

Good Golly I'm Olly wrote:

guildfordbat wrote:57 needed  by Northants with 6 wkts left.

Steel 12-0-63-0. Hmmm.

Baffling he's bowled that many overs, nearly the same amount as Virdi!
Have I missed something with him...he's not actually like any good?

I once watched him captain Durham Uni to defeat vs a Southampton Solent side who had been drinking for 7 hours on the coach ride up. Good enough to hang around the county scene for years though!

8 down , 2 runs required

Well done Northants, chasing 320 against a bunch of pie throwing clowns, and a clueless captain on a 4th day pitch

5 wkts for Clark

Should never be losing that game heads must roll

guildfordbat wrote:Tea and going to the wire.

33 needed. 4 wickets left but two newish batsmen in.

Haven't looked up the stats but seen too many no balls. Can't afford that.

28 no balls and 3 wides have cost us dearly

As stated on here let's hope that's the first and last time Steel plays red ball cricket for us,
How Amla kept him on beggars belief

on a side note Dernbach has just played his final ever innings in a surrey shirt

jimbobgooner wrote:on a side note Dernbach has just played his final ever innings in a surrey shirt

I'm sure we would have let him go early and put his feet up. Guess he's still hoping to catch the eye of another county.

Some way from being everyone's favourite and I understand that. However, he's put in a lot of hard yards over a long time and I trust things work out for him.

As an aside, I always liked Churchy's comment about Dernbach and his tattoos - ''When interviewing Jade, I never knew whether to talk to him or read him!''