Kemar Roach took his season’s wicket haul to 9 in three matchesLV= County Championship Division One, Edgbaston (day one)Warwickshire 143-8 (51 overs): Mousley 55*; Roach 3-31, Worrall 2-33Surrey: But to batSurrey 2 pts, Warwickshire 0 ptsMatch scorecard
Reigning county champions Surrey had the higher of a rain-hit day in opposition to 2021 winners Warwickshire at Edgbaston.
After profitable the toss, Surrey skipper Rory Burns inserted the Bears and was rewarded with 5 wickets from his two abroad pacemen.
West Indian Kemar Roach took 3-31, whereas Australian Dan Worrall weighed in with 2-33 after each had seemed good in a powerful new-ball morning burst.
Dan Mousley hit an unbeaten 55 because the Bears struggled to 143-8 off 51 overs.
It was no shock that Surrey selected to bowl on such a cloudy morning and Roach had already had close to misses when he bagged his first wicket, Rob Yates, a centurion in each the Bears’ earlier two residence Championship video games, with solely his eighth supply.
Yates went caught at second slip, as was Bears skipper Will Rhodes, off Worrall. And, when Alex Davies prime edged an tried hook off Roach, England keeper Ben Foakes took the catch to go away the hosts 23-3.
Tom Lawes then bought the large wicket of Sam Hain for 10, to finish the England hopeful’s run of tons, after scoring 119 and 165 not out in his two earlier innings this season.
Ed Barnard got here in to assist Mousley placed on 45 for the fifth wicket. However Worrall once more made use of Ollie Pope at second slip to take away Barnard and, within the subsequent over, 34-year-old Roach dived low to take a superb return catch off Michael Burgess for a sixth-ball duck.
Chris Woakes, having his first bat since England’s third Take a look at in opposition to the West Indies in Grenada in March 2022, helped Mousley add an additional 48, both facet of an hour-long rain break.
However, within the last over earlier than dangerous mild intervened, Woakes and Hasan Ali, first ball, each perished leg earlier than wicket to Jordan Clark.
And, though Chris Rushworth survived the…
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