Surrey v Hants - rain for four days

Tremendous innings of patience and solidity from Burns which was then devastatingly built upon by Clark to put us in a great position. And that was before the 2 Hants wickets in the final session!

I'm not a fan of the night watchman role but credit where it's due - Roach played his part very well to support his skipper and frustrate Hants.

A really good day for Surrey.

We do need to get on the field today, ideally… the rain will play into our hands as it will make batting harder.

It is a lot brighter here. Looks as if the rain has just about passed thru. Might get an hour or two from 4pm.

Covers coming off, meanwhile at Chester-le-Street....

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Meantime the electric roller has broken down and the old one is pushing it off.....

And wickets are falling again. Worrall is so reliable and Atkinson bowling with confidence.

The beauty of this Surrey squad is that all of them can contribute (even Patel did well with his much needed 40).

Don’t anybody praise Patel.

I'm so grateful for the rain that wiped out the best part of three sessions.

It enabled me to stay home today, watch Arsenal's win at Spurs, and still have (hopefully) a full morning's cricket to watch in pleasant weather tomorrow morning.

Fair weather supporter!

According to the beeb we shall be dry all day tomorrow whilst Durham will rain all afternoon. Let's hope they have forecast correctly this time !!!

Fair play to whoever decided to leave a bit of grass on this wicket, certainly more than normal and probably due to the forecast. Let’s get the job done today.

Sir Winston Churchill wrote:According to the beeb we shall be dry all day tomorrow whilst Durham will rain all afternoon. Let's hope they have forecast correctly this time !!!

Its good to see Durham and Lancashire in wrong half of table after both being tipped to be rivals, on the otherside of the coin Essex are going to be real rivals this year, and we play them twice this season.

Hoping for a Kemar resurgence this morning, he's due a bit of luck.

He bowled pretty well last night with little luck. The number of times the ball has passed the bat without reward in this game has been extraordinary.

Jolly well done Surrey. Very professional win.

Very happy with this indeed.

Sir Winston Churchill wrote:Jolly well done Surrey. Very professional win.

Very happy with this indeed.

Surrey win by an innings and 11 runs

Great team performance

Peter.M.Gardens wrote:

Sir Winston Churchill wrote:Jolly well done Surrey. Very professional win.

Very happy with this indeed.

Surrey win by an innings and 11 runs


Pope got 8 catches in the match

Great team performance

Excellent win!

Popes feat equals that of  Tony Lock who took 8 catches and indeed a 7 catches for us in a match.

Lock really did have a story to tell, seemingly undervalued. Sadly finished his life under a bit of cloud. Fascinating chap though.

Tony Lock
https://www.espncricinfo.com/cricketers/tony-lock-16331

We can put our feet up next weekend. I wouldn't mind some rain!

Jackers wrote:We can put our feet up next weekend. I wouldn't mind some rain!

Might have to watch some football

Would have been nice to have the cricket next weekend as Monday is a Bank Holiday.

Great win for the boys. Several fine individual performances, not least Jordan Clark with his century

Top of the Table

With us winning and the 3 other matches all draws, perfect set of results.

KeninWestWickham wrote:Great win for the boys. Several fine individual performances, not least Jordan Clark with his century

Definitely, Ken.

I'll leave Burns, Clark and Worrall to fight it out for MOTM. Although not a contender for that top award, significant credit still belongs imo to Ryan Patel. His innings of 41 in a partnership of 75 won't leap out of the record books in years to come but it was mighty important on Friday when the ball was seaming everywhere. We were 44/4 when Patel went out to bat. Had he gone early leaving us, say, 50/5, who knows what would have happened next?

If ever a thread title was contradicted by the thread itself...

Viewed from afar, Clark, Worrall and Steel did not seem like particularly brilliant signings at the time, yet here they are performing as well as anyone else. Either "afar" underrated them or Surrey saw significant undeveloped potential. It's not all about the marquee signings.

guildfordbat wrote:

KeninWestWickham wrote:Great win for the boys. Several fine individual performances, not least Jordan Clark with his century

Definitely, Ken.

I'll leave Burns, Clark and Worrall to fight it out for MOTM. Although not a contender for that top award, significant credit still belongs imo to Ryan Patel. His innings of 41 in a partnership of 75 won't leap out of the record books in years to come but it was mighty important on Friday when the ball was seaming everywhere. We were 44/4 when Patel went out to bat. Had he gone early leaving us, say, 50/5, who knows what would have happened next?

There is a fourth contender for MOTM. The man who produced a wicket which stayed narrowly the right side of the pitch inspectors' attentions on Day 1, and a ground which recovered from the monsoon rains of late Saturday and much of Sunday to enable enough play for a result (none of the other games around the country came remotely close to it).

Not only is Rory Burns returning to his best form with the bat after two pretty lean years, but his luck with the toss seems to have improved significantly this year. While we may still have won, I suspect it would have been a much closer affair had we been inserted first thing on Friday under those conditions and on that pitch.