SURREY VS LANCASHIRE LV=COUNTY CHAMPIONSHIP

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SURREY HAVE NAMED A THIRTEEN MAN SQUAD FOR THE LV=COUNTY CHAMPIONSHIP GAME AGAINST LANCASHIRE STARTING ON SUNDAY AT THE KIA OVAL.
Kevin Pietersen is included having recovered from the calf strain that kept him out of the knockout stages of the Indian Premier League. Ben Foakes is also named in the squad but Gary Wilson is unavailable after being selected in the Ireland squad for the Intercontinental Cup game against the UAE.
luke fletcher's back injury rules him out and will now go back to nottinghamshire.
there is still no place in the squad for the viscount
The Surrey squad to play Lancashire in the LV=County Championship at the Kia Oval on Sunday 31st May, Monday 1st June, Tuesday 2nd June and Wednesday 3rd June :
Gareth Batty (capt)
Zafar Ansari
James Burke
Rory Burns
Tom Curran
Steven Davies
Matthew Dunn
Ben Foakes
Stuart Meaker
Kevin Pietersen
Jason Roy
Kumar Sangakkara
Dominic Sibley
sibley and burke to miss out
over to you guys

guildfordbat wrote:Brilliant morning for Surrey. Lancs weren't bad but seemed to lack inspiration and certainly had no answer to Roy who was sensibly supported by Davies. The best innings I've seen from Roy. The trademark powerful pulls but combined with plenty of cleverly placed singles having pushed the field back. For those who accused me of being a jinx yesterday, I did say after 5 overs today he was "looking particularly good"!!

guildfordbat wrote:I got the 150 partnership, JimBob!!

A third batting point. Relatively quiet start after lunch.

new ball taken crucial period coming up

Le Roi  now has his highest first class score, beating the 140 he scored in May against Northants.

noooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo

jimbobgooner wrote:new ball taken crucial period coming up

And Le Roi     falls for 143.  Great innings.

Le Roi must be on the England Selectors' radar screens now. Having already earned international recognition in the one-day format, he has now proven early this season that he can come in at a tricky time, read the game, then build a substantial innings in the longer game, too.

And, of course, if England are looking for a front line - not part-time - spinner who could chip in with useful runs in the lower middle order, we may have one of those, too  

Roy's wicket together with the new ball has given Jarvis extra pace and a new lease of life. Troubling Foakes with a mix of deliveries but the Surrey debutant is hanging in there.

nooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo
new ball has worked

As well as taking two wickets, Lancs have reined in scoring rate since lunch.

Swings and roundabouts this game eh

Still we're in a very strong position here

painful stuff now

we should have got full batting points

Churchy and the guy from Radio Lancs talking about Surrey declaring at 400. I think they're getting ahead of themselves - 343/6.

jimbobgooner wrote:we should have got full batting points

Don't think we can complain too much - we were 70 odd for 4 on a overcast day lest we forget....

53 needed off 20 overs

Olly wrote:

jimbobgooner wrote:we should have got full batting points

Don't think we can complain too much - we were 70 odd for 4 on a overcast day lest we forget....

olly you do realise what forum you're on

Jason Roy has scored (if my maths is right)

1545 runs at an average of 57 since the start of 2014.

Developing into a wonderful player

4th batting point
50 needed off 109 balls

Piece of cake that'll be jimbo

31 off 90 balls

50 partnership

Foakes and Batty pushing things on - 370/6. Impressed by Foakes whilst Batty is tonking to good effect.

guildfordbat wrote:Foakes and Batty pushing things on - 370/6. Impressed by Foakes whilst Batty is tonking to good effect.

how's the angry tomato guildford ?

Batty saved by a flock of pigeons!!

12 needed off 72 balls

7 off 60 balls

norah gone 4 still needed

400 up full batting points

jimbobgooner wrote:we should have got full batting points

50 for foakes

tea 421 for 8

Just was having a look at the scorecard, and the Lancashire teamsheet just struck me as very interesting. Petersen, Prince, Jarvis....... And then James Faulkner.......

It's a disgrace really msp

Seen chatter online about a declaration - I hope not.

If we're going to win this game we need to bat once, so put on as many as possible and then try to make them follow on

Roy really was splendid today. So powerful in his stroke play. Reminiscent of Pietersen at Guildford in 2012 in the way he took on and tore into Kerrigan who had no answer, the slow left armer's figures weren't worse today simply because he got taken out of the attack earlier. However, unlike in the past, Roy was canny as well. Would hit a boundary or even two, see the fielders drop back and then contentedly push a single.

Good support from Davies as well. Prepared to play second fiddle and let Roy have the majority of the strike. Clearly not the innings of the day but still an important one,

Foakes also looked very assured and straight drove beautifully. His first ball was ferociously struck back and crashed into the stumps at the bowler's end. Unlucky not to get a boundary although fortunate as well that Jarvis didn't get a touch and run out Davies. After Davies' dismissal, a good partnership with Batty developed. The skipper put his foot on the gas and tonked his way to a useful 30 odd.

A remarkable and first rate turn around from around 70/4 yesterday. Just a shame about the weather and the umpires (unlike the last Test, Corporal!) being too keen to get back in the warm - a poor show by them, lost 15 mins this am when few even realised there was the odd spot of rain and then play was halted after tea for bad light with the floodlights on and it seeming ok.

Agree with Olly - really go for it in the morning, bash away for a handful of overs to up our score and hopefully only have to bat once. That'll also keep the Lancs (batting) openers wondering and uncertain. I recall Stewie saying he likes to try and do that - particularly as you have to give a minimum of 15 mins notice of an overnight declaration, ie 5 mins more than when during play.

msp83 wrote:Just was having a look at the scorecard, and the Lancashire teamsheet just struck me as very interesting. Petersen, Prince, Jarvis....... And then James Faulkner.......

Hi msp - yes, Alec Stewart was also keen to emphasise that and twice referred to Lancs having four internationals in their side in an interview previewing this match.

Any of you folks there today? I'm on the train to the big smoke for work, if I'd been organised I'd have booked tomorrow off and stayed for the final day!

No, not today, Olly. Weather seems pretty wretched which'll muck up our "bat on for a bit more" plans. If that wasn't bad enough, today is a freebie day at the Oval for Surrey schools - pity the teachers and stewards with several thousand kids to cope with in the rain!

Good to see the BBC website mention Roy's century as the lead in their report. Up to then, they had been describing this match solely in relation to someone who had contributed 2 to Surrey's total, rather than those who had contributed the other 433.

Simon - fully agree. It's poor and lazy reporting to so regularly concentrate on ''the KP angle''.

Surprised to see there's been some play this morning. Surrey took the advice from Olly and myself to bat on although the 2 remaining wickets only mustered another 13 today. Foakes finishing with 63 not out - a very fine start and that's been followed by a catch off Dunn to dismiss Horton. Fellow opener Brown also back in the hutch - yet another catch by Roy, this time off Curran.

Don't believe the time lost already and the continuing poor weather will permit a positive result. However, it looks as if we'll be able to take a lot of confidence from this match against the Div 2 leaders.

guildfordbat wrote:

msp83 wrote:Just was having a look at the scorecard, and the Lancashire teamsheet just struck me as very interesting. Petersen, Prince, Jarvis....... And then James Faulkner.......

Hi msp - yes, Alec Stewart was also keen to emphasise that and twice referred to Lancs having four internationals in their side in an interview previewing this match.

All very well grizzling about this but what are the actual rules on overseas players and does Lancs' team for this match square with them?

On a separate note, a little ironic that Surrey - not innocent of such accusations ourselves - are muttering about another County's recruitment of galacticos. Ok, so we are fielding four established 'imported' proven talents ourselves (KP, Sanga, Interesting and Foakes) but we also have a generous smattering of top quality young home grown talent on show, too: Zafer, Le Roy, Meaker and Dunn - all of whom may have the ability to go on to significant international level achievement.

...meanwhile, England's Next Spinner/Bat All Rounder comes to the party to leave our visitors 91 for four (with one international already among those dismissed  )

MEAKER!!

Lancs are currently 126-6, we have a sniff but as Guildford alluded too earlier, it's a very encouraging performance against the class of the division so far

54 overs before Batty has a bowl - waste of a space in the team at the moment

surrey doing what surrey do best

Kolpak CC batting well now