Surrey 360 and 57 for five (Bailey 4-34) want an extra 151 to beat Lancashire 274 and 293 (Williams 61, Salt 54, Worrall 3-69)
Tom Bailey took 4 wickets in 16 balls in an 11-over opening spell of 4 for 34 to cut back Surrey to 57 for five in a rare last hour on the Kia Oval and provides Lancashire the possibility of inflicting a primary defeat of the season on the Division One leaders.The county champions had earlier been pissed off by Will Williams, Bailey’s new ball companion, who as nightwatcher batted four-and-a-quarter hours for a defiant career-best 61 to depart Surrey needing 208 to clinch a sixth victory in eight matches this season.However by stumps on day three it was a Lancashire win that appeared extra doubtless as Bailey wrecked Surrey’s high order after the house aspect had ultimately bowled out Lancashire for 293 of their second innings, held up by Williams’ cussed resistance and in addition by a strong 54 from Phil Salt, his second fifty of the sport.
Bailey’s magnificent opening burst introduced him the wickets of Dom Sibley for 1 and Tom Latham subsequent ball for a duck in his fifth over after which, in his sixth and seventh overs, the scalps of Jamie Smith for 4 and Ben Foakes for five.
Sibley and Latham have been each effectively held at second slip by substitute fielder Rob Jones, Smith was leg-before shouldering arms to an offcutter and Foakes caught behind, pushing out defensively.
And the drama continued when Surrey skipper Rory Burns fell for 20, caught at first slip from Jack Blatherwick’s fourth ball, within the twentieth of the 24 overs Lancashire bowled in a memorable mini-session. Will Jacks stays 19 not out.
Williams, a 30-year-old New Zealander with a UK passport, started the day on one not out in Lancashire’s in a single day 113 for 4, representing an total lead of simply 27, however he withstood Surrey’s five-pronged tempo assault – spearheaded by Dan Worrall’s 3 for 69 – virtually till tea to make his maiden first-class half-century.
Christchurch-born Williams’ earlier high rating in 54 first-class matches was simply 38, made for Canterbury towards Wellington in February 2020. This was his seventy fifth first-class innings, along with his 698 earlier runs coming on the lowly common of 13, however Williams, enjoying…
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