Lancashire previous boy Jordan Clark (left) had by no means beforehand taken a couple of wicket in an innings towards his previous countyLV= County Championship Division One, Kia Oval (day one)Lancashire 274: Salt 56; Clark 4-47, Abbott 4-71Surrey 70-4: Williams 2-22Surrey 3 pts, Lancashire 2 ptsMatch scorecard
County champions Surrey closed on a nervy 70-4 in reply to Lancashire’s 274 after an intriguing opening day on the Kia Oval.
Rory Burns, Dom Sibley and Tom Latham all fell in a superb 14-over new-ball assault earlier than Ben Foakes performed on for 23 towards Jack Blatherwick to the primary ball of the day’s closing over.
That got here after Jamie Smith had simply been put down at first slip by New Zealand worldwide Daryl Mitchell off George Balderson.
Earlier, Lancashire additionally skilled early issues towards the brand new ball as they slumped to 46-3, earlier than being rescued by two stands, the primary for 73 between Mitchell and Dane Vilas.
Then, after they’d each gone within the area of seven balls, an additional 82 between Phil Salt and all-rounder Blatherwick on Lancashire’s first red-ball look on the Oval in 5 years.
After making 100 as opener towards Hampshire two weeks in the past at Southport in his first red-ball look for 12 months, Salt this time scored 56 batting at quantity six.
However he additionally performed and missed on quite a few events as Lancashire’s batsmen additionally discovered run-making laborious work.
Lancashire wicketkeeper Phil Salt backed up his ton within the win over Hampshire by prime scoring once more with 56
It was 4 wickets apiece for Lancashire previous boy Jordan Clark (4-47) and Sean Abbott, who used his earlier expertise of bowling with the Kookaburra ball in Australian home cricket.
Surrey’s five-pronged seam assault seemed to have carried out job however the guests then made the a lot of the 20 overs they obtained on the residence staff earlier than stumps.
Burns, on 5, edged Will Williams for wicketkeeper Salt to take a superb low one-handed catch diving to his left and Sibley departed for an 18-ball duck…
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