surrey vs derbyshire county championship

First topic message reminder :

Team Director Chris Adams has named a thirteen man squad for the LV=County Championship game against Derbyshire at the County Ground starting this morning.
Ricky Ponting is named in a Championship squad for the first time having made his Surrey debut last night in the abandoned Yorkshire Bank 40 against the same opposition. Jade Dernbach misses the game having been called into the England squad as cover for the One Day Internationals against New Zealand.
jason roy has been dropped so yet again a new opener is required
keedy and lewis the two i would leave out
The Surrey squad to play Derbyshire in the LV=County Championship at the County Ground on Thursday May 30th, Friday May 31st, Saturday June 1st and Sunday June 2nd:
Gareth Batty (capt)
Arun Harinath
Rory Burns
Ricky Ponting
Vikram Solanki
Zander de Bruyn
Steven Davies
Gary Wilson
Stuart Meaker
Chris Tremlett
Tim Linley
Jon Lewis
Gary Keedy

The Brain in a vegetative state. 8 off 37 balls.

Corporalhumblebucket wrote:The Brain in a vegetative state. 8 off 37 balls.

That's quite quick for him!

362 for 4 at close
trust the brain to let us down in that final session

Very well done to the Baron and Punter.

Clearly our day but still extremely unlikely to be our first win due to failings on day one. Stating the bl**dy obvious, we have to be at or near our best throughout the entirety of a match not just some parts of it.

Matters further hindered by Solanki and especially de Bruyn who appears totally unaware of match requirements.

Have we actually got an overseas player who will help!? Great to see him and Arun get runs today. Another draw looming though.

150 for punter
50 for davies

ricky pointing now has the highest score by a surrey batsman making his first class debut fot the county beating ramps 146 in 2001

Surrey doing their best to try anf force something today, approaching 150 put on this morning, can't see anything happening though. To be fair as much as we're annoyed this must have been a bit of a road of a pitch looking at our current score of 510/5

By all accounts we bowled poorly on day one. We' would have been in with a shout if we had bowled them out for under 350.

Punter run out for 191. Derbys using Gary Pratt as 12th man?

Ok, 65 ahead at lunch on the last day: we're not going to lose from here. So... maybe declare and see how it goes?? Only 3 of their players got beyond 21 in their 1st innings. If we make inroads and, especially, get Chanderpaul cheaply, you never know...

(PS: should I change my username to LudicrouslyOverOptimisticSurreyFan ??)

guildfordbat wrote:Punter run out for 191. Derbys using Gary Pratt as 12th man?

SimonofSurrey wrote:Ok, 65 ahead at lunch on the last day: we're not going to lose from here. So... maybe declare and see how it goes?? Only 3 of their players got beyond 21 in their 1st innings. If we make inroads and, especially, get Chanderpaul cheaply, you never know...

(PS: should I change my username to LudicrouslyOverOptimisticSurreyFan ??)

If our tail allows, bat on for another 7 or 8 overs and try to get our lead up to around 120. Then declare in the hope of getting some early wickets and panic setting in for the rest of the Derbys batsmen.

All rather fanciful I fear but we might as well give it a go ....

They have scored off 17 balls in a row at the moment. (Brain take note?)

surrey declare 101 lead

Could do with a 3 wicket maiden from Tremlett or Meaker.....

Seems odd to have declared 101 ahead. Neither here nor there. Surely better to have thrown the bat and tried to get another 20-30 ahead and put the pressure on. All rather academic now as they're 38-0.

kingdaveeagle re your 'neither here nor there' comment, the wonderful John Arlott got away years ago with the following:

"A change in bowling now for NZ. Coming on is Cunis (nb: for those too young to remember, first syllable of that name rhymes with 'fun'). Funny name 'Cunis' - neither one thing nor the other" !!!

Totally irrelevant to this game, but more amusing.

the one and only is enjoying himself

Draw.

Some good to excellent individual performances but too much to do and not enough time after the disappointing showing on day one.

I take Carrot's point that the pitch "must have been a bit of a road" (well over 1,600 runs for 21 wickets) but after having both openers back in the hutch before 30 had been scored on the first day feel we should have done better than allow Derbys to kick on and exceed 450.

well, not a complete disaster.... roll on Guildford! - forecast looking good... looiing forward to catching up with Guildford, Carrotdue, The Corporal et al...on Thursday?

SimonofSurrey wrote:kingdaveeagle re your 'neither here nor there' comment, the wonderful John Arlott got away years ago with the following:

"A change in bowling now for NZ. Coming on is Cunis (nb: for those too young to remember, first syllable of that name rhymes with 'fun'). Funny name 'Cunis' - neither one thing nor the other" !!!

Totally irrelevant to this game, but more amusing.

Heard Mark Steel do that anecdote on his tour, with a passable imitation of JA's voice. It was rather lost on good folk of Tunbridge Wells.