SURREY VS LEICESTERSHIRE/ DURHAM/ WARWICKSHIRE/ MIDDLESEX ROYAL LONDON ONE DAY CUP

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For Olly
Surrey have named a 12 player squad for the game against Leicestershire on 2 August at Guildford.
Rory Burns is currently unavailable as he is recharging before the final games of the County Championship season, Ben Foakes is no doubt doing the same.
Hashim Amla has retired from white ball cricket.
Matt Dunn has recovered from the injury on Sunday whatever it was.
James Taylor remains on the treatment table.
Every one else is playing in a competition called the hundred  
Ben Geddes will skipper Surrey for the first time in a classified game.  
FULL SQUAD:
B Geddes (c)
N Barnwell
J Blake (wk)
M Dunn
N Kimber
T Lawes
Y Majid
C McKerr
R Patel
N Reifer
C Steel
A Virdi
Absolutely ridiculous that Burns and Foakes have to recharge before the final games of championship and (England in Foake's case.)
Would leave Virdi out after Sunday but probably will be Kimber or Barnwell.
Over to you chaps  

Squad unchanged for Warwickshire

Warwickshire win toss and bat
Surrey unchanged

jimbobgooner wrote:Warwickshire win toss and bat
Surrey unchanged

Everyone should have been happy at the start! I believe Surrey planned to bowl if they had won the toss.

Good opening 5 over spell from Dunn with 1/12.

Virdi dear god

jimbobgooner wrote:Virdi dear god

Not selected for his fielding then

Virdi in bowling well shock

Blissful watching 2 spinners bowling in unison at the sunny Oval,...and we've got the mighty Steel in reserve, if we could just get Pandya out

Some awful bowling from mckeer and dreadful fielding gives us a score we have no chance of chasing down

Good grief....a tie, I watched the 2nd half of a godawful football match and missed that fantastic finish

What a game sod the 16.4
Kimber what a knock

Squad unchanged for Middlesex
barring any injuries team unchanged

jimbobgooner wrote:Squad unchanged for Middlesex
barring any injuries team unchanged

Thanks, JimBob. Exactly as you say.

We've done fantastically in the last two games but do feel we somehow punched above our weight and fear that it has to end soon.

Surrey win toss and bowl
Dunn is not playing today due to an urgent family matter.
Barnwell comes in

Virdi opening the bowling with Lawes it hasn't gone well

Fair to say Kimber should stick to batting

Very amateur from Surrey, god knows how Steel gets a bowl, and the fielding from such a young side is appallingly bad

Barnwell must be a good fielder?

McKerr with the best figures yet not bowled out while Steel carries on

Love Geddes as a batsman but he really is a poor captain

352 to win

There are far, far worse players than Eskinazi playing in the 100. He’s too good for the standard of the RL Cup at the moment.

jimbobgooner wrote:McKerr with the best figures yet not bowled out  while Steel carries on

I only saw the last few overs online but that was exactly my thought. Steel is pretty dreadful and should never be allowed to bowl the 48th in a 50 over contest.

I've seen Barnwell bowl at the Guildford ground for the Surrey stiffs and in the match against the Sri Lankan kiddies. He was hit and miss, mainly miss. However, given what Middlesex did against most of our attack, I would have given him at least a couple of overs - just might have paid off and wouldn't have put us in any worse position.

Majid had been and gone when I switched on but 2/51 from a full 10 is a proper return for the young man, especially at a smallish (? guessing but assume it was small) outground. Well done to him and also McKerr but not much to write home about from the other bowlers. Excellent catch from Blake to give McKerr his third but by then the damage was done.

As also said, poor captaincy from Geddes. Fine with the bat but doesn't seem to know what he's doing with the bowlers, the field and the match situation.

Steel clonked on the head whilst batting and escorted off by the physio. We’re entitled to replace him but don’t have anyone registered to play at the ground! Former player and now women’s coach has been doing 12th man duties.

Hmmm.

Meanwhile, Reifer (1 off 5) playing himself in to score 55 off 90 balls and take the game totally away from us.

Great consistency from Reifer. 2 off 11 now.

I just don't understand how they can bowl 2 maidens in 20 odd overs when we need 8 an over, these youngsters are clueless about taking quick singles and rotating the strike

One man show at the moment... great ton from Patel....and he couldn't get in the t20 team

I agree with the comments about Eskinazi. I assumed he would be in the other competition.
As for Surrey I appreciate the captain has plenty of bowlers to choose from but surely it can’t be right that we’ve played two matches where a specialist bowler hasn’t bowled a single delivery. I wonder if Rory would agree to play on Sunday if Steel is unable to.

A shame but I think we all suspected that was coming.

guildfordbat wrote:Steel clonked on the head whilst batting and escorted off by the physio. We’re entitled to replace him but don’t have anyone registered to play at the ground! Former player and now women’s coach has been doing 12th man duties.

Hmmm.

Shocking, meanwhile the clubs twitter account tweets Sheridon Gumbs carried his bat for an unbeaten 259, a new highest score by a Surrey Academy player.
They wouldn't would they?

jimbobgooner wrote:

guildfordbat wrote:Steel clonked on the head whilst batting and escorted off by the physio. We’re entitled to replace him but don’t have anyone registered to play at the ground! Former player and now women’s coach has been doing 12th man duties.

Hmmm.

Shocking, meanwhile the clubs twitter account tweets Sheridon Gumbs carried his bat for an unbeaten 259, a new highest score by a Surrey Academy player.
They wouldn't would they?

Well, it wouldn't really be that much different from us having thrown Majid into this tournament and he's done more than ok.

I saw Mr Gumbs play for the Surrey stiffs last year in a T20 game that was unusually held at the Oval. Tbh, I remember his wonderful name more than the player but wish him well if he should get a call up.