surrey vs kent county championship division 2

First topic message reminder :

right back to 4 day cricket before the last 2 group games in the t/20
Zafar Ansari and Chris Tremlett are included in the twelve man squad for the LV= County Championship match starting tomorrow against Kent at the Kia Oval.
The full Surrey squad to face Kent in the LV= County Championship at the Kia Oval from Sunday 10th July to Wednesday 13th July is:
Rory Hamilton-Brown (Captain)
Jason Roy
Mark Ramprakash
Zander de Bruyn
Steven Davies (Wicket Keeper)
Tom Maynard
Zafar Ansari
Gareth Batty
Yasir Arafat
Stuart Meaker
Tim Linley
Chris Tremlett
who would you leave out from that 12?

42 to win

I wouldn't bowl Tremlett - I'd have Nora and the Viscount on

38 to win

31 to win come on surrey

Key isn't even waiting til the last ball of the over to take a single, he's quite happy for Joseph to take strike, and he doesn't appear to be in any trouble against toothless Tremlett..............just 31 to win now

Well bowled again Tremlett - Key takes a single off the last ball of his over!

and now he's done it to the viscount

nora on to bowl

and he's waiting for the last ball again

''This is cricketing chess'' - Churchy.

Thought the Corporal in particular would like that.

''What a valuable nought so far by Joseph'' - Jonny Barran to Churchy.

If we only played as well as these guys commentate!

another single to Key off the last ball - this is looking an absolute cruise for Kent

26 to win

GAFFER!!!!!

yessssss

The Fat Lady approaches the podium...................

guildford you really are a good luck charm everytime you pop up we get a wkt

''Joseph's whole role now changes'' - Churchy - as Ansari gets the most valuable wicket of his career (so far).

Thanks, JimBob.

Hope it continues next week. Guess where I'll be next Wednesday?

Hyphen drops Joseph off Gaffer!

guildfordbat wrote:Hyphen drops Joseph off Gaffer!

not again not after letting blake off in the 1st innings

To be fair to Hyphen, Churchy explains the ball really smashed into his arm and he was unable to get to it as it looped into the air.

''Gripping stuff'' - Churchy.

300 up ....

Yes!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

WE WIN !!!

I come home from the Gym and the first ball I listen to We win

well it was never in any doubt was it i dont know what all the fuss was about

easy...........

So drinks in the officers mess with the Corporal

We needed that win to get us back in the mix though in reality we should have made it alot easier than it turned out to be, but when have we liked making things easy.

Just makes you wonder what if about that Gloucester game.


Well played boys improvement on the last couple of seasons

5 wins on the trot in all compititions

depressedsurreyfan wrote:I come home from the Gym and the first ball I listen to We win

hang on who is the good luck charm then you or guildford christ this is getting confusing

Roy catches Shaw at short leg as he tries a reverse sweep off Nora and we win by 21 runs.

''What a game of cricket that has been''- Churchy.
Very true, Churchy, but we made it a lot harder than it should have been. After the deserved celebrations, questions should still be asked and answered.

Final thought - will this win give us a bit more confidence and the edge tomorrow? Probably not in the lottery of t20 but it won't do any harm.

Jimbob I seem to be a good luck charm whenever I go out!!!
The number of times I've listened to hours of commentry and we fail to take a wicket pop out for an hour and come back to find we have taken two or three

We shouldn't be letting teams get 300 in the 4th inns, but it's another win and a game we would've lost over the last 3 seasons!

corporal fill me up

One improved aspect of our performance in this match relates to the comparatively low number of extras we conceded.

Ignoring leg byes (not really the fault of the bowling side), we conceded a total of 21 extras in Kent's two innings. In contrast, Kent conceded 43 in our two innings.

That's a difference of 22 runs, exactly the amount Kent needed to win when their final wicket fell!

Now for that

Its refreshing that Adams described letting Kent back into the game as "criminal" in his post-match interview.

Tibor - totally agree.

The admission from Adams that things did not go smoothly throughout this game leads me to think there will be some changes for the CC game against Middlesex at Guildford next week.

Presumably Tremlett - despite a pretty ordinary match for us - will be on England duty and replaced by the returning Dernbach. Regardless of the wumming comments of a few (mainly on the old 606), Dernbach learnt most of his cricket at Guildford and will get a good reception there.

The one whose place I most fear for is Jason Roy. Even as his ''strongest supporter'' (per the Corporal), I acknowledge Roy didn't cover himself in glory against Kent. However, it would be a mistake in my view to leave him out. Not only should Roy's emerging talent be encouraged but it also needs to be recognised that Guildford is a small ground and ideally suited for Roy's clean hitting. He has been successful there before, albeit against fairly weak opposition.

I went along to Guildford early last season with the main aim of assessing the county potential of Laurie Evans against Essex seconds and came away convinced I had seen a future international in Roy. He will make a decent score against Middlesex next week if he is at the crease for, say, only half an hour. I just hope he gets the chance.

Anyway, we have a few limited overs games before then ....

If a batsmen has to miss out than it would be Maynard for me, he hasn't really done much in the longer form of the game for some time.

I'd rather we perservered with players the club developed themselves.

Harinath/Other to open and Roy to take Maynards spot at 6 if it were me.

Tibor - I would certainly buy that although I'm not sure Adams will ....

Well I wasn't sure about the team selection at the start, I wouldn't have played 2 spinners but as it turns out Gaffer was the reason we won - wothout the 'Key' wicket we would have lost that game.

I still think that Harinath should be opening and that Roy should be batting at 6 or 7. I reckon we could manage with a 4 man attack and play 7 batsmen to accommodate them all - Hyphen and The Brain can be the 5th bowler anyhow. I agree with Tibor about Maynard, he is just as likely to face the drop as Roy, especially as he is playing in his favoured position and Roy is not. Actually, hile I'm on the subject I really don't get why Ramps doesn't just open to allow the others to play in the middle order and learn their trade.

Still, very good that we managed to scrape over the line although we shouldn't have let them get 300 in 2nd innings. The batting needs looking at as only the Brain did anything of note apart from Batty who is a bowler.

The bowling was disappointing as I thought Tremlett and Meaker would be able to have a big impact in the second innings, however this is the first 'failure' in the CC of Meaker's season so I won't be too harsh. Hopefully he'll come back stronger next match.

Time for a

Evening all! I'm mighty glad I only checked on the score when the match was all over..... The drinks cabinet looks depleted for some reason.....

I've had a look at the highlights and it looks remarkably like a Surrey spinner, Ansari, took a wicket by turning the ball. Getting the "key" wicket will be a major boost for his confidence.

I suspect that Kent getting 300 in the last innings was only a little bit better than par for them - mainly accounted for by a bad off day for Meaker and Tremlett not firing on all cylinders; but the real issue was Surrey batting folding so badly in second innings which largely negated our first innings lead.

Once again Meaker comes on and ruins a great start. Playing him in this form baffles me I sometimes wonderif our management know what they are doing.

If it was a case of few bad games from a youngster I would be happy to stick with him but his style of bowling does not suit this game.

Now 6 wides

When our openers start so well why don't we just bowl them out four overs each we could of have them 50 odd for 3 after 8 if we did that!

depressedsurreyfan wrote:Once again Meaker comes on and ruins a great start. Playing him in this form baffles me I sometimes wonderif our management know what they are doing.

If it was a case of few bad games from a youngster I would be happy to stick with him but his style of bowling does not suit this game.

The Brain goes for 12 after Meakers 18 and now Schofield is on... Get me a

depressedsurreyfan wrote:The Brain goes for 12 after Meakers 18 and now Schofield is on... Get me a

depressed wrong match thread

Schofield goes for 12 in the first non Powere Play over

depressedsurreyfan wrote:Schofield goes for 12 in the first non Powere Play over

depressed get over to the right match thread please

We've beaten Kent in Div 2 of the CC!