surrey vs warwickshire county championship

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Surrey Team Director Chris Adams has named a twelve man squad for the LV=County Championship match against Warwickshire at Guildford starting on Wednesday.
Gareth Batty misses the game with a side injury and it is anticipated he will be out of action for 4 to 6 weeks. Vikram Solanki will captain the side in Batty’s absence.
there is no place again for roy in the squad or dernbach who england need to carry the drinks out tomorrow.
The Surrey squad to play Warwickshire at Guildford CC in the LV=County Championship on Wednesday 5th June, Thursday 6th June, Friday 7th June and Saturday 8th June:
Vikram Solanki (capt)
Arun Harinath
Rory Burns
Ricky Ponting
Zander de Bruyn
Steven Davies
Gary Wilson
Stuart Meaker
Chris Tremlett
Tim Linley
Jon Lewis
Gary Keedy
probably will be department store to miss out cant have a tail that long if we left the brain out

What's happening there - is it rain?

Yep - play due to start at 1.10pm

rain again!

Wow what a delivery to get burns out talk about get big on him

brain flops again

here we go again
262 for 3 to 262 for 6

roy out in the last over of the day
warwickshire need 13 more wkts to win
only surrey on a wkt like that could do this

I was just about to say that it must be a great wicket as we were doing well - then 4 go for 7 runs! What is wrong with Roy in the CC?

Here is my report on today's precedings - http://deepextracover.com/home/surrey-crash-on-guildford-motorway/?utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter

We'd probably be staring at another defeat if those 40ish overs weren't lost this morning - I can see us being back in within the first hour tomorrow! 13 wickets in 3 sessions - so we can't afford to lose more than 4 wickets in session - but this Surrey - they can lose 4 in an effin over!

Brittle performance. Not looking good. Ponting can practise farming the strike for the tail end of this innings. When we follow on maybe he should farm the strike pretty much as soon as he comes out to bat.

Meanwhile, the headline about today's play on the official Surrey website is "Ponting stands firm at Guildford".

A more appropriate headline would be "Surrey attempt to snatch defeat from the jaws of a draw!".

Good example of determination and solidity set by Harinath but largely not followed by the others. Decision to send in Meaker as nightwatchman with almost 6 overs still left was viewed by several of us as wrong before he had faced a ball and sadly soon proved to be the case.

Big issue for Surrey is that compared to most other Division One teams they have a very weak tail. So you'd imagine the first three wickets will fall quite quickly.

Shelsey - very true. It is a particularly weak tail. Tremlett has been known to get a few runs. But if either of Dernbach or Keedy survive more than about 10 balls each that starts to look like a bit of a bonus. (In fact much the same could be said of Meaker and - when playing - the Viscount).

Am I the only one who finds batting Ricki Ponting at 4 and not 3 rather strange?

And Meaker as night-watchman? A bit like England sending Tuffnel out... I'm not against the night-watchman on principle, but it has to be someone who has the technique to survive to the end of play. With 6 overs, and expecting the nightwatchman to farm the strike if possible, you're asking Meaker to face out 20 balls +. I'm not sure that's reasonable...

Yes, very true.

Lewis' original selection (in place of Linley) was thought to owe something to him being the best batsman of the frontline bowlers. That had become more relevant with Surrey missing Davies (unquestionably a fine batsman) and Batty (no more than ok with the willow but infinitely superior to his replacement Keedy). What happens next? Lewis gets subbed by Dernbach (Corporal's comments about his batting are spot on) before we even bat. Football chant (sorry Shelsey!) comes to mind of "You don't know what you're doing!".

Mike Selig wrote:Am I the only one who finds batting Ricki Ponting at 4 and not 3 rather strange?

Mike - I understand from a comment on the Surrey supporters website that Ponting had dropped down to no 4 for Australia for a while before he retired and also played at no 4 for Tasmania. So that may well be his preference. Of course these are desperate times for Surrey, so maybe they should reappraise that, with our tail beginning at the Brain.

Mike - the word is it's Ponting's preference to bat at 4 and he's calling the shots.

Completely agree with you about Meaker the nightwatchman as did several I know at the ground.

I'll respond shortly to your query about Meaker the bowler on the "Surrey News" thread. Sorry I didn't last night - post play discussions, drinks and a curry got in the way!

I think the point about the tail has just been proven.

12 runs 7 wkts well played surrey

No point needed to be proved, we all know how sh*t they are!
This is minor county standard!

Shelsey93 wrote:I think the point about the tail has just been proven.

Just a bit.

Not at the ground today - maybe just as well.

262-3 on a 'road' to 274 all out.

Dernbach lasted 4 balls. Keedy more impressive - unbeaten for six balls, though we are still waiting for him to score his first cc run for us. Fine effort from Tremlett to last 15 balls.

IF we go into the last hour with Surrey with loads of wickets in hand I think Warks shouldn't give up hope of a win until they need to take more than 1 wicket per ball...

Warks bring on spinner in over 5.

No lunch watchman Adams??!!

Half century for Burns as he suddenly hits a couple of boundaries in one Javid over.

Solanki digging in with 14 off 61 balls so far. Warks turn back to pace, with Rankin.

Who promptly dismisses Solanki

afternoon corporal

Hi Jimbob. Good knock by Burns.

Corporalhumblebucket wrote:Hi Jimbob. Good knock by Burns.

excellent hopefully a big hundred to see us through to a draw

Meanwhile, the sound effects on Churchy's commentary are quite impressive - with a howling gale blowing at the top of the open stand where Churchy is no doubt crouching.

Burns out for 85. 161 - 3. More or less into the tail now. Tea being taken.

Burns goes right on tea...........the tail is exposed!

can they put more than 12 on this time

here we go then final session can brave surrey hold on

6 to go

Brain out for 19 off 38 balls. I suppose that is about par for him these days.

2 more then the first innings corporal so he is improving

Surrey second innings lasted 70 overs so far. So I suppose there may be another 20 or so to go. If Warks need that many....

Warwickshire are probably only 1 wicket away from winning this, only Roy, batting average of 8, and the four zeroes to come!
Luckily Wilson is managing to dig in a bit this time around!

is barker injured?

Partnership lasted 11 overs so far. 78 overs gone in 2nd innings. Probably a 50/50 chance of saving the match if they carry on for another four or five overs.

jimbobgooner wrote:is barker injured?

And Barker comes on to bowl....

Corporalhumblebucket wrote:

jimbobgooner wrote:is barker injured?

And Barker comes on to bowl....

84 overs gone. Surrey probably slight favourites to hang on for the draw.

match drawn

Good effort from most of the batsmen today, including Burns earlier and Ponting and Wilson this afternoon. Doesn't alter the big problems we've got, in that we were well outplayed in the match from first to last.

this match should be the last for the brain he needs time out for the good of the team and himself

Corporalhumblebucket wrote:Good effort from most of the batsmen today, including Burns earlier and Ponting and Wilson this afternoon. Doesn't alter the big problems we've got, in that we were well outplayed in the match from first to last.

Exactly.

How Warks must wish they could have tagged those 37 overs lost yesterday onto the end of today.

It needs to be remembered that the points for a draw are less than 20 per cent of those for a win. If we don't win a few, we will be relegated. Tonight a win looks a long way away.