Surrey 281 (Smith 88) and 16 for 1 (Lawes 14*) beat Warwickshire 150 (Mousley 55, Worrall 4-38) and and 141 (Barnard 49, Roach 5-34, Worrall 3-55) by 9 wickets
If ever a day’s cricket warranted a set off warning for the weather-ravaged occupants of the Hollies Stand, this was it. Expectations that Warwickshire might take the sport deep into the ultimate day have been banished as Surrey took scientific benefit of very best bowling circumstances to brush their second innings apart in 40 overs, the match over with nearly a day and a session to spare.
5 wickets for Kemar Roach introduced him 8 for 67 within the match and took him previous 500 first-class wickets; three for Dan Worrall took his tally to 7 for 93. A lot is made from how a lot they take pleasure in bowling collectively and with these kinds of returns, it might hardly be a extra satisfying alliance.
“Kemar and Dan complement one another completely,” mentioned Surrey’s coach Gareth Batty. “They’re primary opposites which is nice. They’re highly-skilled, extremely smart and with the expertise to again it up. We’ve got handed a number of numbers their method and mentioned, ‘look we simply must tighten up in sure areas, and the response has been by the roof.
Solely Ed Barnard’s 49 saved Warwickshire from an innings defeat and even he bashed the bottom in frustration when he was ninth out, nicking a rising ball from Worrall to the wicketkeeper. All of it ended with a chucklesome tail-enders’ run out between Chris Rushworth and Oliver Hannon-Dalby with Hannon-Dalby’s sequence of indecisive, tiny steps down the pitch, after he had pushed the ball into the leg facet, turning Rushworth’s mind to mush.
Earlier dispatches from Edgbaston may need intimated that Surrey and Warwickshire have been the 2 most bloody-minded counties in Division One, each able to absorbing appreciable punishment but nonetheless coming again for extra. Nicely, they in all probability are. That could be a measure of Surrey’s achievement in breaking the sport in such startling style.
Alec Stewart, their director of cricket, ably backed up by Batty and and skipper Rory Burns, have re-established the type of Surrey dominance that was felt within the Nineteen Fifties and once more on the flip of the century. On and off the sector, they…
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