Warwickshire 143 for 8 (Mousley 55*, Roach 3-31) vs Surrey
How revered will Kemar Roach be when the following historical past of nice West Indies quick bowlers is written? Not fairly within the pantheon maybe, however value significantly greater than an afterthought. At a time when county cricket is extra weak than ever to a rapidly-changing panorama, his presence for Surrey supplies encouragement that each one will not be misplaced. A participant who insists county cricket ought to worth what it has, not yearn for what’s now unachievable.
Late-career Roach (extra Use Your Loaf as of late than Meatloaf – suppose “Bat Out of Hell”) is a handful on moody days akin to this one, his pure inswing given extra venom by motion off the pitch.
He’s fifth on West Indies’ all-time Check wicket-taking record now, forward of acknowledged greats akin to Garner, Holding, Roberts and Corridor and, if his common is a little bit larger, and if he has by no means received the identical acclaim, he has needed to deal with an period when Check cricket now not absorbs West Indies in the best way it as soon as did. He has usually discovered himself taking part in a lone hand in a hopeless trigger. It’s a lot simpler to hunt in a pack when the pressure is with you.Alongside him, Dan Worrall makes up the opposite half of a relentless Surrey new-ball partnership of spectacular pedigree. Worrall by no means received an Australia Check cap, and, at 31, likely by no means will until there’s a mass incident of meals poisoning on the eve of an Ashes Check (Stuart Broad’s fire-hit pub, the Faucet and Run, has not fairly reopened, however come to think about it that might be fairly a Welcome Again evening). However Worrall is a redoubtable campaigner for all that. His alliance with Roach is a formidable one.
Three wickets for Roach, two for Worrall, one for Tom Lawes and, vitally, two-in-two for Jordan Clark simply earlier than unhealthy gentle prematurely ended a rain-affected first day made up a day of Surrey superiority. Warwickshire, 143 for 8 in 51 overs, want equally grim Friday climate within the hope that Chris Woakes and co can reply in variety. “The hardest situations we now have confronted this deason,” their captain, Will Rhodes mentioned.
Surrey allotted with Hampshire a fortnight in the past and in the event that they do the identical to Warwickshire at Edgbaston, two of…
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